Day 25 of our 30 Day January Challenge was to make instructions that no one will ever need. Apparently, when artists are outlining useless instructions they are at their very best. The last one is my personal favorite, but there were so many great drawings to post, the last one is a long, long, long way down. Use the scroll feature on your device….
detail of series – the rest can be found @karldyerart
@annrodak
How to do headache, by @courtney.wooten
@christianpincock
@trishwallisstone
@janeen_anderson
Martha Campo
@barbdunshee
@gretamusland
@wobblefincharts
@tawmsart
Kate Davis
S. Enriquez
@squirrelflower
@lyallwart
Dom Juleon
Wendy Lumsdaine
@zeitounissima
Roz Avent
Camille Ireland
A Napkin Dryer, by Pamela Freeman and Leonardo da Vinci
Hummingbird Shower (detail). The rest can be found @kpaul1216
Ellen CraftHow to make Ice Tea without Ice. Step 1. Make tea. Step 2, start drawing. Repeat for rest of the day. Anne WalkerHow to Unpack a Lunch, by Kathryn Walton-Elliott
detail of series – the rest can be found @tselisjax
ABOVE: This one was educational. Did you know that about “Eye of Newt”?!?
BELOW: This was posted as a “how to” instructional, but I believe it is actually a transcription of Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne walking their cheetahs, and a very good transcription it is. Nailed it.
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Salman Toor, born in 1983, is an American painter raised in Pakistan. He creates paintings that depict the imagined lives of young gay men, often of Asian descent. His artwork explores various themes, including the treatment of brown men, the experiences of young people in public and private …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Colors are shifty buggers. The way we process visual information causes colors to change in relationship to what they’re next to, giving us a constant source of optical illusions. This makes mixing accurate color rather complicated. Below are a few optical quandaries to illustrate how complicated this “accurate seeing” stuff …
Today is the 10th day of our 30 Day Challenge. We are 1/3 done! Sunday is observational drawing day, so I’m sharing an exercise from school, with a twist. Contour Lines “Contour” is the French word for outline, so contour lines are, quite simply, outlines. Contours describe the shape along the edges of a thing. …
“…What more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?” – Richard Corliss (1944-2015) Below is an overview of some of the most innovative and influential painters from figurative art history to the mid-twentieth century. Starting in Ancient Greece, through the Renaissance into Romanticism, then Modernism, these artists articulated our view of the human form. Up Next: …
30SAL Faves: How to Do Everything
Day 25 of our 30 Day January Challenge was to make instructions that no one will ever need. Apparently, when artists are outlining useless instructions they are at their very best. The last one is my personal favorite, but there were so many great drawings to post, the last one is a long, long, long way down. Use the scroll feature on your device….
@trishwallisstone
Anne Walker
ABOVE: This one was educational. Did you know that about “Eye of Newt”?!?
BELOW: This was posted as a “how to” instructional, but I believe it is actually a transcription of Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne walking their cheetahs, and a very good transcription it is. Nailed it.
LAST ONE:
So much helpfulness.
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Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Salman Toor, born in 1983, is an American painter raised in Pakistan. He creates paintings that depict the imagined lives of young gay men, often of Asian descent. His artwork explores various themes, including the treatment of brown men, the experiences of young people in public and private …
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Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Colors are shifty buggers. The way we process visual information causes colors to change in relationship to what they’re next to, giving us a constant source of optical illusions. This makes mixing accurate color rather complicated. Below are a few optical quandaries to illustrate how complicated this “accurate seeing” stuff …
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Today is the 10th day of our 30 Day Challenge. We are 1/3 done! Sunday is observational drawing day, so I’m sharing an exercise from school, with a twist. Contour Lines “Contour” is the French word for outline, so contour lines are, quite simply, outlines. Contours describe the shape along the edges of a thing. …
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