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Museo is a visual search engine that connects you with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library Digital Collectionmore to come! Images you find here are typically free to use, but please check with the source institution for more specifics.

Let’s talk shadows in web design. Shadows add texture, perspective, and emphasize the dimensions of objects.

There are two kinds of shadows that occur when a light shines on an object, a drop shadow and a form shadow.

Follow this step-by-step guide to learn how to draw hands well.

2. How to draw hands: Break the hand into shapes

https://www.creativebloq.com/how-to/quickly-sketch-hands

The difficulty in drawing from a photograph is knowing what to omit. The photograph contains too much information and generally too many contrary sources of light. Drawing from a photograph is a matter of selection and editing. Degas used photographs in an appropriate way. That is to say, he was not dominated by the material contained in the photo, and felt free to depart from it at will.

Illustration means to shed light on, or to make clear. Drawing suggests the idea of revealing something that is contained within an object and can be drawn out, rather than something that is on the surface. This may explain why those who begin to draw often start with the bones. Both activities require intelligence, perseverance, and talent.

On View
Aug 25, 2021 - Nov 21, 2021
JCDecaux bus shelters: New York City, Chicago, and Boston

ANTI-ICON is an exhibition of newly commissioned photographs by Brooklyn-based photographer and performance artist Martine Gutierrez (b. 1989 Berkeley, CA). It continues her exploration of identity across the cultural landscapes of gender, race, class, and celebrity. In ten new works, Gutierrez has transformed herself into a multitude of roles, reinterpreting a diverse canon of radical historical and mythological figures. Through each metamorphosis, Gutierrez embodies the spirit of heroines who have achieved legendary status across cultures, over thousands of years, in both art history and popular culture.

Designer Amin Zakaria shares his impressions on Urban Sketching.

My notes are my journal. Sometimes they are findings of a study I did, and sometimes they are merely my personal thoughts and design ideas. The sketches below reflect the different methods I use when drawing, based on what I am exploring.

Learn to draw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOZxfVp_fSc&list=PLco-b9POdcG5WbrEW8KSDGrXh95q0-CWa&index=2

https://www.drawingforce.com/

• Bend the torso!
• See the abstract! When looking at a photograph, you need to extract the force out of it.
• 45 diagonals and perpendiculars are dramatic
• 21:48 - Schematic!
• Be careful of "coloring book" line
• 35:15 - Draw light and rough - Draw more! - Don't rush to tighten
• Building off stick figures == Straight and stiff
• Gymnasts and dancers are trying to pose straight. We want people working!
• Don't create taffy/sausage legs (make them asymmetrical)

Free interactive 3D characters for reference poses.

Also mannequin.js

https://boytchev.github.io/mannequin.js/posture-editor.html

Of all the varied objects of creation there is, probably, no portion that affords so much gratification and delight to mankind as plants. —Elizabeth Twining
“Who owned nature in the eighteenth century?” asks Londa Schiebinger in Plants and Empire, a study of what the Stanford historian of science calls “colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic World.” The question was largely decided at the time by “heroic voyaging botanists” and “biopirates” who claimed the world’s natural resources as their own.

https://www.c82.net/twining/

The isometric grid itself is basically the guideline to have the right angles when drawing from an isometric perspective.
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The “true isometric grid” has a 30º angle between the x and z axes to the plane. Graphic design software like Vectornator offers the feature to easily edit the angle of the isometric grid. Also, you are able to increase & decrease the size of the grid which is super helpful if you want to add for example a small balcony on your isometric housing.

Representing nearly every type of work de Kooning made, in both technique and subject matter, this retrospective includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints.

https://www.moma.org/d/assets/W1siZiIsIjIwMTcvMDMvMzEva2xzcHM0aGx1X3RyMTU2NTkuMzRfZnJlaXJlLmpwZyJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MjAwMFx1MDAzZSJdXQ/tr15659.34_freire.jpg?sha=fd872d3bb1209995

María Freire, Uruguayan, 1917–2015

Lewis’s expansive engagement with drawing involves material, language and the properties of abstraction. He uses poetry and text to raise and explore social and political issues such as race and power. Graphite powder, his medium of choice, provides endless possibilities, but it’s “an inherently unruly medium, a substance that threatens to wander,” and therefore is potentially an environmental hazard.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), the world’s largest open-access digital archive dedicated to the natural world, is now offering more than 150,000 high-resolution illustrations for copyright-free download.

via https://www.behance.net/gallery/84361943/Fever-Tree-Championship-Illustrations
Charlie Davis

My show, "Cross Country" is up at the HEP through 10/3 with the reception happening tonight.

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