“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” Bill Cosby
The key
sketch
Everywhere and all the time
“Draw everywhere and all the time. An artist is a sketchbook with a person attached.” Irwin Greenberg
Cliché
“The secrets to life are hidden behind the word cliché.” Shay Butler
Make mistakes
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams
The first image was created by following a tutorial on Tuts+ (the design is based on street artist Shepard Fairey’s Obama campaign posters). The second image was a mistake* I made when messing around with layers in Illustrator.
*Visit this post if you would like to know what I really think about mistakes.
Shoot it, Sketch it: Encore
The snowflakes are back. This is my second study of a photograph I took in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens last spring. It’s looser and more dramatic than the original sketch (below). I really went to town adding watercolour pencil over the top of an ink and watercolour sketch. Using the pencils wet (by dipping them in water) and then drawing on the wet sketch not only produced some wonderfully intense colours, it also added a rather nice texture. It’s a technique that definitely warrants further investigation… My thanks again to everyone who voted in the poll and asked me to draw this one again.
Whispers
“In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting.” Peter Schmidt
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