Posts Tagged ‘sketches’
Saturday’s Sketches
February 5, 2012
While my new student drew her first still life I decided to make a few sketches. The man is from a book that I will be talking about soon and of coure, the back of the woman is my student, and I have every student draw a can of bull dog clips as part of [...]
2012 | Art Work, Sketches | Tags: Elisha Dasenbrock, pen and ink, sketchesComments (0)
30 Minute Studies
August 6, 2011
These are both 30 minute sketches of my niece. I’m hoping she decides to model for me on a weekly basis, but I think she discovered it’s harder than it looks. She had a hard time holding these poses for the full 30 minutes. I am pretty happy [...]
2011 | Art Work, Sketches | Tags: elizabeth, figure, painting, sketches, watercolorComments (2)
Mastering Sketching
May 17, 2011
A complete course in 40 lessons by: Judy Martin (click on image to go to Amazon page) I came across this book in an email from Artist Daily just as I was thinking to myself, “I really need a book that teaches you how to sketch.” Unfortunately this book did not exactly hit the [...]
2011 | Book Review | Tags: book review, Elisha Dasenbrock, sketchesComments (2)
Self-Portrait; Unmade Bed.
February 14, 2011
I bought a book titled Mastering Sketches by Judy Martin. I thought, “This is the book I’ve been waiting for!” There are 40 lessons. I am trying to decide if I want to do one lesson a day or one a week. Although they are not so much lessons as ideas or maybe commentary (at [...]
2011 | Art Work, Sketches | Tags: bed, fabric, graphite, objects, pencil, pencil sketches, self-portrait, sketchesComments (3)
Sneak Preview.
April 7, 2010
These are the very first sketches for a children’s book I am working on. More details to come, I just wanted to show what I have been up to besides working at a bookstore and getting ready to move. I am not the best sketcher, but I think by the time the book is finished [...]
2010 | Art Work, Sketches | Tags: book, children, Elisha Dasenbrock. Limitedpalette, Limited Palette, lion, sketchesComments (0)
30 Days/300 Figures
October 24, 2009
Week 3: Gallery Day By Day Day 10: I realized that these stick figures are actually really helping me see the angles of the body in a different way. I must concentrate on the figure as a whole and think more about the abstract shapes that it makes as one. Who knew you could learn [...]
