#marshallvandruff

[drawingenchanted]

2 Point Perspective practice! When making this I thought a lot about building blocks; adding them on or cutting them out. This is a great exercise to help practice perspective and form. I got the idea by #marshallvandruff and his assignments in his #perspectivecourse ! I made this with good ole fashioned graphite pencils. #hubnerart #draw #pencil #pencildrawing #artist #artsy #drawthings #drawblocks #artist #artistsoninstagram #twopointperspective #twopointperspectivedrawing #instagramart #graphite #graphiteart #artstudy #artpractice #perspective #perspectivepractice #studyart #neverstoplearning #draw #pencildrawing #traditionalart #traditionaldrawing https://www.instagram.com/p/Cci6mWvrEx_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[giselymuniz]

"You never can correct something unless you are willing to do it wrong a whole bunch of times." quote by #marshallvandruff in a video with @stanprokopenko 🖤 I love this guys. . "Você nunca poderá corrigir algo a menos que esteja disposto a errar várias e várias vezes." Se aplica principalmente ao processo de aprendizado de qualquer coisa. No começo é difícil mesmo, mas o essencial é encontrar prazer e diversão no que está fazendo. Assim o tempo voa e conseguimos um maior saldo positivo pra nossa vida. 🖤 Sculputure used as reference by @philippefaraut 🌪️ . #traditionalart #pencil #sketching #sketchbook #art #proko #drawing #sculpture #artgram #retrato #portraitart #portrait #traditionalportrait #instaart #study #beauty #anatomy #womensart (em Caxias do Sul) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-xtj-jhU12/?igshid=oh3cd8bj5s3u

[mikepelensky]

He's right behind me, isn't he? #marshallart #marshallvandruff #lilhitch #cartoon #doodle

[mikepelensky]

Scary Marshall Vandruff. Thankfully he's never looked at me like this in real life. #marshallart #marshallvandruff #cartoon #doodle

[dexterouz]

Words of Marshall Vandruff

Marshall Vandruff wrote the following on some of the important aspects of being an artist:

Making a picture is like making music – it comes from feeling, but it requires skill. Just as a musician should know scales and fingerings, an artist should know some “left-brain” disciplines. Here’s the list:

  Anatomy

An artist who knows anatomy can exaggerate, alter, distort and represent a figure without getting confused. Knowing the bones and muscles helps an artist see the components of a body and draw them with authority.

Perspective

Artists learn perspective, not just so they can draw boxes, buildings and railroad tracks, but so they can draw heads, hands and animals at play. A master of perspective can draw a human body from any point-of-view without looking at a model.

Rendering

When light falls on a three-dimensional form, whether it’s a plaster ball or a face, it “sculpts” the form and shows the surface texture. Rendering is how an artist makes surfaces appear real, so that an object appears rough or shiny, wet, dry or oily.

Technique

A musician masters an instrument. An artist masters paint, pencils or pens, and applies them in thick slabs, thin washes or jagged or flowing lines. But the important issue is why an artist chooses to apply a medium one way or another.

That requires creativity. We want more than skill. We want to make works that are alive and surprising.

This “right-brain” discipline fits into one big category:

Composition

Artists arrange a picture’s shapes, colors and tones to evoke feelings from viewers. That’s composition. It’s difficult to teach because most artists do it instinctively and everyone does it differently.

But here are two hints: Artists design their paintings. They are aware of the underlying structure the way a musical composer is aware of the entire musical “shape.”

Artists reflect the masters they love. A blues musician listens to great blues performers until that “flavor” comes out in new work. The paintings you admire and analyze and absorb will influence your own choices when you compose a picture. So look at what you love.