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Dark Mirrors

For centuries artist have used darkened mirrors and smoked lenses to help them view a real landscape in simplified tonal values. More on Substack

You’re Not Allowed To Imagine Thaat

What are the implications of an AI model that refuses to cooperate? What happens when it tells me that I’m not supposed to imagine something? What if it becomes illegal to imagine something without using a safe-certified AI? More on Substack

You’re Not Allowed To Imagine Thaat

Drawing Moving Objects

Drawing moving objects is a whole different challenge compared to drawing things that hold still. Sometimes I like to analyze a common motion such as putting on a jacket by drawing different stages of the action.Here I’m looking for the long curv…

Drawing Moving Objects

Gilbert Gaul’s ‘Return Home’

Gilbert Gaul was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1855. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York and worked as an illustrator for multiple newspapers including the New York Daily Graphic and the New York Herald. A young soldi…

Gilbert Gaul’s ‘Return Home’

Special Delivery

Hope everyone is enjoying the new book. I’m curious: What are you working on in your own sketching practice?

Special Delivery

Hope everyone is enjoying the new book. I’m curious: What are you working on in your own sketching practice?

Crash of the Florist Van

This florist van crashed into something jagged, which sliced through it from under the headlight to the side door panel. (Ballpoint pen and gray markers, around 1980.)This was one of the sketches we couldn’t fit into the expanded and remastered edition…