Month: April 2021

It’s hard to judge the angle of an ellipse, like the top of the key here.

I’m definitely drawn more to the clean line approach. It takes more work, though, because you need to clean up the lines and make sure they are firm and bold.

I didn’t know if the ink would erode the surface of the print paper. It’s okay. I plan to start copying Tiepolo but notice that Tiepolo uses two tones of wash. I’ll try just one at first in my own drawings.

I love the way art deco brings in influences of Greek, Egyptian and Japanese art. The scan didn’t capture the lines very well unfortunately.

A portrait with the clean line approach, with a subtle use of shading on the eyebrows (which the scan doesn’t show).

A clean line approach to a tree, with gaps in the marks around the foliage. Very different to the John Palmer approach. I prefer the simpler Hokusai approach.

This is fantastic: a completely different way of making lines and a different visual language.

I mixed the styles too much here. I chose a hairbrush to see if I could draw the bristles of the hairbrush in an impressionistic way, without drawing every bristle. I ended up drawing every one, but messily. I got caught between two approaches (clean and impressionistic) and did neither. The label is a bit out, too.

Copy of a landscape that had been done just with hatching.