sketchbook month Tag

Today's Sketchbook Month submission is a warm-up sketch, loosely based on an old snapshot I took of myself a few years ago using one of the facial distortion modes in iChat. I also thought it would be fun to try do draw something on toned paper. The idea is to let the color of the paper represent the middle tones of...

Today's Sketchbook Month entry is a few studies on how to convey the emotion of fear. My notes are based partly on the excellent book "The Artist's Complete Guide To Facial Expression" by Gary Faigin (Amazon.com link). Full disclosure: If you click on the Amazon link and then buy something, Amazon will drop a few coins into my checking account. ...

Thought I'd try something a little different today for Sketchbook Month. I was thumbing through a drawing book by Andrew Loomis and was utterly amazed at what he was able to do with just a pencil and a little shading. I've also really enjoyed my friend Tim Hodge's recent gorilla sketches. So I combined the two—I did a Google image...