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Good information here.

https://www.sightsize.com

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Build up of a 2 hr drawing. Starting with gesture, progressing through SLR, then massing shadows, and eventually refining contour. The lenses are not purely sequential. Note how the feet were developed by SLR before contour.

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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” ― Ira Glass

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to-people-who-are-beginners-i-wish

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HWG Slant Rock Studio on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3f5iCHYTk43nxECS4jwNtQ

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Steven Assael

Click on photos for links

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Claudio Bravo

Zoey Frank

Click images to link to their websites

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Limited Value Studies by Georgetown Atelier Student Steffan Carter

https://georgetownatelier.com

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value studies by Jason Patrick Jenkins 

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Quick demo of posterized values turning form

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Quick demo on turning form with graphite

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Perceptual to conceptual to combination of the two.

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Quasicrystals Are Nature’s Impossible Matter

“There can be no such creature.”

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Draughtsman Making a Perspective Drawing of a Reclining Woman

Artist:Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date:ca. 1600

Medium:Woodcut

Dimensions:sheet: 3 1/16 x 8 7/16 in. (7.7 x 21.4 cm)

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Perspective - Curvilinear Perspective (& Cheating)

You might think that straight lines are, well, straight…but… Paris Opera, Plan There is a bit of a paradox in the world of pe...

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Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design (Dover Art Instruction) [Dorr Bothwell, Marlys Mayfield] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. As a guiding principle of Eastern art and design, Notan (a Japanese word meaning dark-light) focuses on the interaction between positive and negative space