Draughtmanship

[bixaorellana]

I love drawings and can look at good ones endlessly. I include in that good comic strip art and quick sketches. There is something about a picture that comes from a pen or pencil that seems so direct and full of what the artist sees.
At any rate, I came across this blog by accident, and hope others enjoy looking at it as much as I did:
garyamaro.blogspot.com/

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I like graphic art as well, my favorites by the ultra simple 'ligne claire' style used in Tintin and many other graphic series, and also the ultra sophisticated pen and ink sketches of infinite detail from the turn of the (last) century, such as illustrated a lot of the novels by Jules Verne.

[bixaorellana]

Of course there's Winsor McCay. This: www.comicstriplibrary.org/browse.php?contents=Mars+(Planet) is out of this world! It's big enough to really fall into, and each group is complete.

[bixaorellana]

I profoundly wish the NYTimes had assigned this article to some other writer. If you wish, you can simply skip her condescending to the reader, pointlessly padded verbiage and go directly to the glorious slide show.

[lola]

Browsing here. The Strasbourg Cathedral drawing on the 2nd slide of NYT article is so fine, and many others, of course.

Also some new sketches on the garyamaro blog. Nice.

I'm a Little Nemo fan, but hadn't seen many in your link, bixa. Imagine paying your 3 cents or whatever for the Sunday paper, and having those included.

Thanks and hope you've landed safely per update on k's haiku.

[bixaorellana]

Yep, just flew in and boy, are my arms tired, Lola! Thanks for asking.


Thanks for resurrecting this thread and for mentioning the updates.

Here are a couple more sites that are wonderful for viewing drawings. Do check out the arm studies in this one: www.drawingsofleonardo.org/.

I don't quite know how I feel about this artist: www.joshkeyes.net/drawings.htm. On the one hand, his work doesn't really engage me. On the other, his unmistakable talent and command of his various media must be lauded.

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May not be right thread for so feel free to move. Political caricaturist David Levine,died yesterday. Brilliant legacy.

www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=122043019&m=122043068

[bixaorellana]

That is a loss!

Go here for an extensive gallery of his caricatures.

If the name doesn't immediately ring a bell for everyone, this picture might, especially for Americans of a certain age group:

for more of Levine's Vietnam war era pictures, go here. The one of Robert McNamara in the group portrait is incisive and chilling.


art collector Douglas Cooper; George Bernard Shaw; Pauline Kael

[lola]

Incisive, yes. He was great.

[fumobici]

Aside from archived work he's been missing from the pages of my beloved NYRB for some time now. I'm a huge, huge fan, RIP.

[lola]

Amazing how much personality can be captured with some ink marks on paper.

[bixaorellana]

Would you like to learn to draw with this degree of control?

Visit Brian Duhey's website: www.dueysdrawings.com/index.html

He has an extensive, frequently updated selection of tutorials to teach you to draw. His credentials?

... in my early 20's. I was sitting around the house one day and decided to get out a pencil and draw. I immediately fell in love with it and wanted to do it all the time. With every drawing I did, I got a little better. I developed my own techniques and tricks along the way. I strive to produce realistic looking drawings and add my own conceptual ideas too. I often get asked if I ever took any art classes. The answer is, no, I am completely self taught.

Check out his bio section to discover which graphite artists Brian admires. You are in for a treat of beauty and amazing technique.