Life Drawing and Figure Art

I look everywhere for inspirational content to share with people who love Life Drawing. Today’s post is part 2 of what is really hard to find out there. I will keep posting more. Of course it is easier if you…

Do you think you can’t draw? Do you believe that it takes a natural born talent? Are these misconceptions about drawing holding you back from taking a Figure Drawing class? Then you need to read The New Drawing on the…

Mechanical invention, mechanical knowledge, and even a mechanical theory of the universe, have so influenced the average modern mind, that it has been thought necessary in the foregoing pages to speak out strongly against the idea of a mechanical standard of accuracy in artistic drawing. If there were such a standard, the photographic camera would serve our purpose well enough. And, considering how largely this idea is held, one need not be surprised that some painters use the camera; indeed, the wonder is that they do not use it more, as it gives in some perfection the mechanical accuracy which is all they seem to aim at in their work. There may be times when the camera can be of use to artists, but only to those who are thoroughly competent to do without it—to those who can look, as it were, through the photograph and draw from it with the same freedom and spontaneity with which they would draw from nature, thus avoiding its dead mechanical accuracy, which is a very difficult thing to do. But the camera is a convenience to be avoided by the student.

I look everywhere for inspirational content to share with people who love Life Drawing. Today’s post is part 2 of what is really hard to find out there. I will keep posting more. Of course it is easier if you…

The materials in which the artist works are of the greatest importance in determining what qualities in the infinite complexity of nature he selects for expression. And the good draughtsman will find out the particular ones that belong to whatever medium he selects for his drawing, and be careful never to attempt more than it is capable of doing. Every material he works with possesses certain vital qualities peculiar to itself, and it is his business to find out what these are and use them to the advantage of his drawing.