Happy New Year

It’s been over a month since I’ve posted anything. The new YouTube channel is taking up some of my time, but not enough to justify the lack of updates here. I’ve been painting a lot, and thinking a lot about drawing. I’m trying to work out something more useful in how I explain my drawing method and may decide to do some dedicated videos or other beginner friendly material on it sometime in the near future.

I’ve been keeping pretty busy with the Captains series of portraits I’ve been working on for now though, so once that’s completed, I’ll see about dedicating some time to the drawing idea. I don’t know if it will be in the form of a “workshop” in some form, or a series of blog posts, or whatever. The working title is “Drawing the head from the inside out”, because that’s basically how I do it and I think it’s comparable to other methods, such as grids or relying heavily on construction. It’s not likely to be as accurate as tracing, but it can be used with live models, where tracing can’t. (Note: Alberti Grids or Dürer Grids can be used when working from life, though I doubt many people still do this.)

Anyway, I’m going to try and work this into my rotation of Stuff To Do when I’m not painting, or not doing other life stuff. I hope this is something I can complete before the end of the year.