As preparation for the DRAW test next week, students were tasked to depict a set objects made of different materials: metal, glass and fabric. Pencil on A3 paper.
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Drawing Exercise 2015: Still Life 01
This week for DRAW students had a couple of hours to draw a set of objects placed under a single directional light. The emphasis is still on proportion and values. Done in pencil on A3 paper.
Drawing Exercise 2015: Fruits
This was an exercise for my 1st year students to gauge their drawing skills at the start of the semester. They had about 1hr 30 min to complete it as best they can. I thought it would be good practice and joined in. Done in pencil from a picture reference. 🙂
Book Review: Fires in the Mind
Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us about Motivation and Mastery by Kathleen Cushman My rating: 4 of 5 stars I liked it for the insights into effective learning presented from the students’ point of view. I managed to find new ideas and rediscover nuggets of information that can probably help me frame…
My Note 4 Sketches – A Beginning
So I recently upgraded my mobile phone to a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and felt obliged to get comfortable wielding the S Pen (since it was one of the reasons why I bought it). I downloaded the free Artflow app and thought it would be cool to sketch characters from movies and TV shows that…
Book Review: The Shallows
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr My rating: 4 of 5 stars After quite a bit of starts and stops I finally completed reading this book and I must say that while it did not enlighten me as much as I had hoped, I did enjoy reading it…
Drawings: Render 2011 Portraits
Dug up a bunch of portrait sketches I did during Render 2011 and compiled them. Done in pen, each drawing took around 10-15 minutes.