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Portrait of a Man

A fellow artist, Gary Rubin, produces small format pencil portraits and posts them on Instagram. I stumbled upon his work a month or two ago

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Carroll Beckwith

Friday morning I tried life drawing via Zoom with Silhouette & Shadow. They host frequent life drawing opportunities online, do a nice job managing the

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Portrait Practice

Well, I’m making progress. This one is an excercise from ”How I Crosshatch 3” by France Van Stone. Specifically from the section on Pencil crosshatching.

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The Ears Have It

This is exercise number nine in the France Van Stone (@wagonized) course I’m taking. The sketching of three ears. I think its important to realize

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Croc Revisited

I just love France Van Stone! Remember the Croc I posted on the 17th? I wasn’t very satisfied with it and wrote about why. Today

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