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Posts tagged "drawing on the walls"
Nov 23, 2009
Steve Brodner shows SCAD students the evolution of thinking about a face
On butcher paper I drew him from life and then abstracted the face in three stages. Finally arriving at a place that was probably going to far. Trying to make the point about sketching. Go as far as you can. You can always scale back, but give yourself every opportunity for exploration and discovery…I like to emphasize the idea that your first image is just the start. It’s like jazz; you can keep improvising. Ideas come to you if you are present for them.
Lucky fucking art students…getting their tuition’s worth!
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Nov 22, 2009
Oct 12, 2009
Cartoonist Dave Coverly drawing live on stage, with the Kalamazoo Concert Band as backup
I really, really want to do this one day.
Sep 20, 2009
Ed Emberley presents to the Center for Cartoon Studies
Man, those Cartoon Studies kids sure get their money’s worth…
Sep 10, 2009
Riding the subway from his uptown apartment to the clubs, Haring noticed black paper hanging next to advertisements in the cars, awaiting the next ad. He used this opportunity to draw in chalk on the black paper with all sorts of childlike imagery: barking dogs, babies, unisex figures, spaceships, TV sets, etc. The outline style of imagery could be appreciated individually as cartoon cels or together to form a narrative. The subway drawings magnify Haring’s cartoons into a new Pop Art that at once was urban narrative, science fiction and hieroglyphics. These subway drawings initiated his first one man shows.
Sep 05, 2009
Al Franken draws a map of the USA from memory
See more videos of him drawing - including a spot on Late Night with David Letterman, where he explained that he learned to do this “as a bar bet!”
Aug 12, 2009
“ I look at art, all of art, as graffiti. That’s how the Italians describe the hieroglyphics on the Egyptian tombs, they were just pictures of a past culture. That is all art is, a way of expressing emotions that come out of a certain culture at a certain time. That’s what cartoons are, and that’s what comics are.
Aug 11, 2009
Aug 05, 2009
Jun 18, 2009
Flash Rosenberg: Conversation portraits
Flash is the New York Public Library’s artist-in-residence, and draws live during panel discussions and lectures.
In other words, she has my dream job.
Flash Rosenberg draws in real time while some dude talks to Andrei Codrescu on his book tour
This is the kind of thing I want to do on my book tour — only I might draw while *I* talk.
Mar 25, 2009
Mar 20, 2009
Mar 12, 2009
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