Values Create Dramatic Drawings
Careful use of darks and lights within and around the figure can give your drawings more power and dramatic force.
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Careful use of darks and lights within and around the figure can give your drawings more power and dramatic force.
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Arlene Steinberg develops her detailed colored pencil drawings in much the same way as an oil painter would proceed. She carefully determines a composition, builds from dark shadows to bright highlights, and underpaints complementary colors to enrich the image.
Join us on Monday, May 12 at 2 p.m. EST as we chat with Arlene Steinberg about how she develops detailed colored pencil drawings. Brought to you by Legion Paper.
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Watch an audio slideshow demonstration of Steinberg's Prelude, and view an online exclusive gallery of her drawings.
Owen Gray comments on Peter Paul Rubens' Hercules and Minerva Fighting Mars.
Join us on Monday, May 12 at 2 p.m. EST as we chat with Arlene Steinberg about how she develops detailed colored pencil drawings. Brought to you by Legion Paper.
Watch an audio slideshow demonstration of Steinberg's Prelude, and view an online exclusive gallery of her drawings. Read the feature article on Steinberg.
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Pennsylvania artist Kurt Long won the top prize in the contest, which required draftsmen to depict one of the specimens in "BODIES...The Exhibition," at New York City's South Street Seaport.
David Jon Kassan comments on Burton Silverman's Demonstrator.
Watch an online exclusive slideshow of an additional storyboard by J. Todd Anderson for the 2008 Academy Award winning film No Country for Old Men (1:38). Anderson was featured in the spring 2008 issue of Drawing magazine.
Ephraim Rubenstein discusses Michelangelo's The Risen Christ and The Resurrection of
Christ.
In the spring 2008 issue of Drawing magazine, we explored how the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts turned students into artists. In this online exclusive gallery, we offer more examples of student and faculty work.
Read about the history of the the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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When drawing the figure start with the model’s torso and build out from there. Save arms for last since they are simply attached to the larger mass.
Enter American Artist's Self-Portrait Competition, and win valuable prizes!
Extended entry deadline: May 19, 2008
If you are chosen, your artwork will also be reproduced in the print edition of American Artist, on the magazine’s website, and in one of the magazine’s e-newsletters.
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Watercolor Highlights - Spring 2008
