Monthly Archives: December 2010

Battling real emotions

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Guthlac

I have set my self a new goal, I suppose you could call it a sort of a New Years resolution, only it is not. I am going to make a drawing of my father. Now there are a number of problems with this. The first is that he died nearly four years ago, … Continue reading →

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Back to serious drawing

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Guthlac

Before I start I have been asked to point out that none of the women I have drawn and posted are known to me. They are all based on photographs I have found on the Internet. So I have moved away from the Madison Avenue style book and back to what … Continue reading →

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Ludmilla – the evil Russian temptress

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Guthlac

This is straight out of DC comics or Marvel. It was produced by following one of the style guides in my favourite art book of the moment. Isn’t she so evil and Bonesk!Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

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Corrupting Madison Avenue

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Guthlac

Reading further into the Drawing the Head and Figure book I was given at Christmas it is clear that it was designed for designers and artists working in a Madison avenue advertisement agency in the late 50’s to come up with some art work for the l… Continue reading →

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Prescriptive Drawing – the 1950’s way

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Guthlac

I am working my way through my figure drawing book – c1950. May how prescriptive it is – take for example drawing the neck and shoulder lines. Here we are shown 11 different angles/types and the anatomy of the women is discussed in some detail for… Continue reading →

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The iPad in 2011

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Guthlac

I am not the first person to say this but 2011 could well be the year of the iPad. When the product was first introduced there was still quite a bit of confusion as to how the product would work. 7 months on a lot of companies are starting to deve… Continue reading →

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Drawing the head and figure

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Guthlac

I have been given a wonderful book for Christmas called ‘Drawing the head and figure’. It is a Haynes manual of how to do this. It breakdown the body into it’s individual proportions and then explains how to capture these in a drawing. It is a gre… Continue reading →

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When things get away from you…oh and I have a cold

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Guthlac

Well it wouldn’t be Christmas with out getting a cold and as I write this this Christmas is stacking up as usual. My wife is stiff suffering from flu like symptoms and I have started to get a cough and splutter.So It has been back with the sketch … Continue reading →

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Learning to work with the pen

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Guthlac

The more I work with a pen the more confident I get with my ability to obtain something interesting. It is the old refrain ‘..the more I practice the better I get and the better I get the more I practice…’ or something like that. The inability t… Continue reading →

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Doodling and illness

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Guthlac

Well thanks to the British education system my wife is suffering from a bad cold. My son came home the other day with a heavy cold no doubt contracted at his university. Being young he spent a couple of days feeling sorry for himself and then boun… Continue reading →

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