Tag Archives: drawings

Robot drawing from my old sketchbooks (circa 1996)

I drew this while doing a year abroad of undergrad in London. Like most college experiences it was still “day care for 19 year olds”, but we could travel (and drink) unsupervised.
During this time I was doing a lot of drawings with metal nib ink dipping pens. I couldn’t find any pencil lines so I [...]

Another “right brain” drawing: Picasso’s Stravinsky

It turns out that the whole right/left brain thing is likely not true. The good news is the exercises from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain are still valid. It doesn’t matter where things happen in the brain, what’s important is that you turn off all the impatient symbolic, verbal, and habitual parts [...]

Sketch exercises 2-4

Excercise two from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is to draw a person without any reference. This one wasn’t very good. I did it right after exercise one, and it feels much different to draw from your head instead of what you see.

Next up, draw your own hand while looking at [...]

Self taught art

Until just before I graduated college I was one of those kids that always carried a sketch pad. In every classroom from kindergarten to college I sketched instead of paying attention. In spite of this I was always an A or B student.
As my college career wound down I realized that I didn’t want to [...]