https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog Drawing Lessons, Workshops, Tutorials, Books and Art Fri, 04 Oct 2024 06:11:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-Favicon_WP-32x32.jpg https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog 32 32 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2023/03/titles-and-signatures/ https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2023/03/titles-and-signatures/#respond Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:39:25 +0000 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/?p=1139 Continue reading TITLES and SIGNATURES]]> https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2023/03/titles-and-signatures/feed/ 0 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2018/06/drawing-animals/ https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2018/06/drawing-animals/#respond Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:42:32 +0000 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/?p=1098 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2018/06/drawing-animals/feed/ 0 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2017/12/do-i-need-to-draw-from-life/ https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2017/12/do-i-need-to-draw-from-life/#respond Sun, 31 Dec 2017 14:49:40 +0000 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/?p=1088
Because the pencil is a relatively narrow, pointed stylus, we tend to concentrate on the finer details. To do that you need to know what the details are. You cannot successfully draw something you don't understand. That understanding, and the knowledge of the detail, comes from observation. You store individual elements in your brain and subconsciously retrieve them as you work. Drawing from life is an excellent way to load data into your brain, because it forces you to focus on the make-up of your subject. And the more data you store, the easier drawing becomes...

The human brain loves images. Draw what you see - convert your vision to an image - and you'll remember everything about it for years to come.]]> https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2017/12/do-i-need-to-draw-from-life/feed/ 0 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2017/09/adjusting-values-for-increased-three-dimensionality/ https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2017/09/adjusting-values-for-increased-three-dimensionality/#comments Sat, 02 Sep 2017 22:23:26 +0000 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/?p=1077 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2017/09/adjusting-values-for-increased-three-dimensionality/feed/ 2 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2017/07/pencil-artists-and-negative-space/ https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2017/07/pencil-artists-and-negative-space/#respond Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:50:04 +0000 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/?p=1050 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2017/07/pencil-artists-and-negative-space/feed/ 0 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2017/01/troubleshooting-fine-art-printing/ https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2017/01/troubleshooting-fine-art-printing/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:21:09 +0000 http://www.sibleyfineart.com/_blog/?p=1027
Printing is not so much an art as a frustration. It involves... compromise! When I first went into print I couldn't understand why printers kept saying "Well, this is as close as we can get to the original." My mind kept saying "Why are they happy with 'close'? Shouldn't they be looking for ways to improve the printing process?" This was in the days when offset-litho was the only printing system available.

Later I understood the inherent limitations of printing... Now I print in-house using a giclée (pigment-based inkjet) printer that doesn't have that limitation... ]]> https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2017/01/troubleshooting-fine-art-printing/feed/ 1 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2015/10/why-dont-you-use-colour-thats-much-more-beautiful/ https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2015/10/why-dont-you-use-colour-thats-much-more-beautiful/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2015 15:01:06 +0000 http://www.sibleyfineart.com/_blog/?p=989 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2015/10/why-dont-you-use-colour-thats-much-more-beautiful/feed/ 3 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2015/07/the-best-scanners-for-artwork/ https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2015/07/the-best-scanners-for-artwork/#respond Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:52:44 +0000 http://www.sibleyfineart.com/_blog/?p=971 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2015/07/the-best-scanners-for-artwork/feed/ 0 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2015/06/detail-vs-form-in-drawing-short-hair/ https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2015/06/detail-vs-form-in-drawing-short-hair/#respond Sat, 06 Jun 2015 16:17:11 +0000 http://www.sibleyfineart.com/_blog/?p=960 Continue reading DETAIL v FORM – DRAWING SHORT HAIR]]> https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2015/06/detail-vs-form-in-drawing-short-hair/feed/ 0 https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2014/12/the-chisel-pencil-point/ https://sibleyfineart.com/_blog/2014/12/the-chisel-pencil-point/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2014 19:38:50 +0000 http://www.sibleyfineart.com/_blog/?p=941 I've always been told to keep my pencil sharp but in your book in the 'Charlotte-portrait' chapter you mention in stage 4 using a 'flat' tip. I'm not quite sure what 'flat' means. I always use a chisel point, which has many advantages. Sharpen your lead as usual and then, holding it at your normal drawing angle, rub the point off on a piece of scrap paper. Now you'll have a flat face surrounded by a sharp edge.

• Use the edge whenever you usually use a point - except the edge lasts a lot longer.
• Use the flat face for shading. It cannot draw hard edged or thin lines so the coverage is smoother and more even. And...
• Every time you use the flat face you automatically sharpen the edge.

If you need to sharpen the edge, restore it by quickly by scrubbing the face on scrap paper again. It's almost an ever-lasting "point". No constant pencil sharpening to break your concentration; and there's one more major benefit...

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