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I am still working on the artist date project from this week. I went to the Goodwill with my Uncle on Monday and bought a few pieces of art to transform. Nothing crazy. Just practicing hand lettering. It’s just not finished yet. Today, I found out I can download my […]

Artist Date

July 22, 2020 in Art tagged Art / drawing / howto / instruction by Elisha

I think I’m on 5. Yesterday started out as one of “those days.” I over slept by 2 hours so I missed my walk with my cousin, I couldn’t find the zoom info for an important class so I missed it, too, plus Gunnar begged to go out 3 times […]

Artist Date 5?

July 13, 2020 in Art tagged artist date / drawing / graphite / sketching by Elisha

This is the beginning of a new series titled That Face When... The moment I saw Ms. Clinton make this face, I knew I wanted to do a series of powerful women with "that face." The face women make when they just have to sit there and let a man get it out of his system.

New Work

December 31, 2018 in Art tagged Art / drawing by Elisha

One thing I think makes sketchbooks truly beautiful, aside from the obvious, is lettering. I am very envious of those with beautiful handwriting along side their drawings. You would never guess I spent a summer learning cursive before we had even had it in school. Or that I had a […]

Sketch-A-Long

January 12, 2016 in Sketch-A-Long tagged Art / drawing / sketch / sketchbook by Elisha

Sketchbooks can be anything you want them to be. Normally, mine are filled with random things. They’ve been started one year, added to another, and finished in yet another year. Many people like to create themes for their sketchbooks. All dogs in one, all flowers in another. The ones I’ve […]

Sketch-A-Long

December 29, 2015 in Sketch-A-Long tagged Art / drawing / sketchbooks / sketches by Elisha

Here are a few sites to look at over the holiday weekend if you find a spare minute. 6 Ways To Improve Your Sketching Artslug Drawing Skills Before and After

Link Love – Sketching Part Deux

December 26, 2015 in Links tagged Art / drawing / Link Love / sketching by Elisha

Here is a rough video on measuring. Questions? Just ask. If you have a tip to add, I’d love to see it. Let me know what you think.

Sketch-A-Long

December 23, 2015 in Sketch-A-Long tagged Art / drawing / sketching by Elisha

Happy Holidays! Here is my very quick, 5 minute or less sketch of Gunnar in his Christmas lights headband.

Sketch-A-Long

December 17, 2015 in Sketch-A-Long tagged Art / drawing / sketch by Elisha

Here’s this week’s sketch. I wanted to be funny and draw something everyone who really knows me has seen. My grumpy “leave me alone in eating and trying to remember how to function” look. This is a time I could have used a kneaded eraser to pick out some highlights, […]

Sketch-A-Long

December 10, 2015 in Sketch-A-Long tagged Art / drawing / sketch by Elisha

Last week we went over values a little bit and I gave you a quick exercise. I recommend doing that exercise with every drawing tool you use, especially if you are a beginner. If you have a set of pencils, do one with every single pencil. You will see the […]

Sketch-A-Long

December 8, 2015 in Oops! I forgot to pick a category! tagged Art / drawing / sketch by Elisha

Here is my very quick sketch for this week’s theme of what object represents me. Everyone makes fun of my books and the fact that I tore out my RV couch and put a bookshelf in its place. A beautiful, cedar shelf I built myself, but who’s asking? Most of […]

Sketch-A-Long

December 3, 2015 in Sketch-A-Long tagged books / drawing / sketching by Elisha

Would you like to sketch with me? People are always so interested in drawing and they want to learn, but they seem really self-conscious or they think it has to be taken so seriously. If you remember my Bad Dog or Bad Grandpa comics, you will know, sometimes, stick figures […]

Sketch-A-Long

November 24, 2015 in Sketch-A-Long tagged drawing / sketch-a-long / sketching by Elisha

Contour

March 16, 2006 in Contour tagged Art / artwork / color pencil / contour / drawing / pencil / sketch by Elisha

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Contour

March 16, 2006 in Contour tagged Art / artwork / color pencil / contour / drawing / pencil / sketches by Elisha

These are the contours I stayed after class to do. Well a small sample of them any way.

Contours

March 16, 2006 in Contour tagged artwork / color pencil / contours / drawing / pencil / pencil sketch / sketch by Elisha

This is a contour drawing. We used colored pencil. You draw very slowly using with your pencil as parallel to the paper as possible. I am really bad at it. Although the ones I picked to put on here are pretty decent (lots of practice). We get 5 minutes for […]

Contour Drawing

March 16, 2006 in Contour tagged Art / artwork / contour / drawing / pencil / sketches by Elisha

This is a conte blocking. You take a piece of conte and use one tone to lay out the basic shape of the person, then you press harder to get another tone for the shadows. You only shade in the darkest shadows and you only use the 2 tones. You […]

Conte Blocking

March 16, 2006 in Conte tagged abstract / artwork / conte / contre blocking / drawing / pencil / sketches by Elisha

Another gesture, same woman

Gestures

March 16, 2006 in Sketches tagged anatomy / Art / drawing / gesture / pencil / sketch by Elisha

Just a quick note on sizes All work from class is done on 18 x 24 in paper so unless I take a picture of it to post the whole thing will not be on here. Practice from books is done in my 5 1/2 x 8 in notebook Actual […]

Quick Note on Sketch Sizes

March 11, 2006 in Sketches tagged drawing / sizes / sketchbooks / sketches by Elisha

This is an eye I did on my own. Trying to use all the practice I am getting from that book. It’s done over quick sketches of Tux.

Practice Eye

March 8, 2006 in Sketches tagged anatomy / anatomy sketches / Art / drawing / graphite / pencil / pencil sketches / practice eye / sketches by Elisha