This is day 10 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Draw someone talking. Instead of illustrating their face, focus on describing their character and story through their body language. The scene can be drawn in a comic style sequence of squares, or all in one frame like the fragment taken from the Jenny Saville sketch above. Text is optional.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #bodylanguage
Above: A beautiful example of multi-layered blending by Sharon Kingston Blending The most common way to kill the vitality in a painting, blending is a smooth transition between two colors, painted when wet. This is difficult to do with acrylic because it dries so danged fast, so using a slow drying paint like Golden OPEN Acrylics might help. 3 Blending …
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Day 10: Body Language #30SAL
This is day 10 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Draw someone talking. Instead of illustrating their face, focus on describing their character and story through their body language. The scene can be drawn in a comic style sequence of squares, or all in one frame like the fragment taken from the Jenny Saville sketch above. Text is optional.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #bodylanguage
Or post to today’s Padlet page.
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