Everyone keeps telling you that you need to practice your fundamentals. What the hell does that mean, and how do you do it? This subreddit's all about concrete exercises that you can do to improve your fundamentals. We'll give you homework and we'll tell you where you're going right and wrong.

Directed by Julie Rubio (USA, 2024, 96 min.). Massachusetts premiere.

With her distinctive high-gloss sensual nudes and cooly elegant portraits of high society in the Jazz Age, Polish Jewish artist Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980) helped define Art Deco style and the glamour and transgressive vitality of post WW1 Paris. After stunning the art world in the 1920s with her showstopping work, which mixed cubist and neoclassicist styles, Lempicka fled to the United States in 1940 amidst the rise of fascism in Europe.

The Inventive Mind of László Moholy-Nagy

• by Brooks Riley - Art At First Sight

Perhaps more than any other person in history, Leonardo da Vinci showed the kind of magic that can happen in the overlap between art and science, where much of web development lives. His methods and outlooks are just as applicable to the web today as they were in Renaissance Italy.

• Document Your Thoughts, Ideas, And Work
• Obsess Over Geometry
• Think Right-To-Left
• Find Good Patrons (Or Failing That, Good Employers)
• Iterate, Iterate, Iterate
• Feed Your Inner Polymath

https://mymodernmet.com/leonardo-da-vinci-notebooks-online/

If you made it big in seventeenth-century Bavaria, you showed it by creating a garden with all the plants in the known world. That's what Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt did, anyway, and he wasn't about to let his botanical wonderland die with him.

https://beeld.teylersmuseum.nl/Digital_Library/Emags/149b_439-1/

Join Susie as she gives you the framework to breaking down a drawing from start to finish.

Join me in Happy Artist: https://www.happyartistcoaching.com/

#howtodraw #drawingforbeginners #drawing #drawinglessons #drawingtutorial #drawingskill

SVG Shapes

Explore the collection of 120+ basic SVG shapes for your upcoming project.

Simply click on a shape to copy its SVG code to your clipboard.

https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/explore-and-download-14000-woodcuts-from-antwerps-plantin-moretus-museum-online-archive.html

If you’re not in the market for fancy letters, you can also browse the Plantin-Moretus woodcut archive through the categories of plants, animals, and sciences. Some of these illustrations are technical, and others more fanciful; in certain cases, the centuries have probably rendered them less realistic-looking than once they were.

You can't always trust your eyes when drawing values. I'll show you techniques to see accurate value relationships when shading light and shadow.

Lighting conditions affect how we see color.

When drawing we have to override our brain's instinct to label things. The white portion of the eye shouldn't be white! The eye is a ball that reflects light according to the plane each portion is facing.

Avoid tunnel vision! Local highlights might actually be shadows

Over at Hilobrow, Josh Glenn has long been doing a series of galleries of “Radium Age Art” — or as he puts it, “proto sf-adjacent artwork created during the sf genre’s emergent Radium Age (1900–1935).”

Many of us in these past few generations first heard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while reading E. L. Konigsburg's novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications

Thanks to a new A.I.-trained system, researchers have identified an additional 303 drawings in just six months.

Drawzer answers the simple question 'What should I draw?'.

https://www.openculture.com/2024/03/the-getty-makes-nearly-88000-art-images-free-to-use-however-you-like.html

doodlingphysicist
I started monthly sketchnote meetups at my new job after giving a sketchnote workshop there last month. We had our first meetup yesterday and talked about how to add simple cartoons to sketchnotes. I made a one-page reference to guide the meetup. Of course lots of inspiration from Bruce Blitz and Jack Hamm. #sketchnote #cartoon #drawing #illustration #visualnotes #community

Olympic keepsakes designed by MUTI. Connect with them on Dribbble; the global community for designers and creative professionals.

You could pay $118 on Amazon for 'The Art of Illumination.' Or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications

http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/titles-with-full-text-online?searchtype=F

https://www.openculture.com/2018/06/download-50000-art-books-catalogs-metropolitan-museum-arts-digital-collections.html

https://www.openculture.com/2014/05/the-met-puts-400000-high-res-images-online.html

Read about the artwork in the words of Collé's expert curators and the artists themselves.

Countless chopstick wrappers advice learners to "hold chopsticks like a pen". Here we explore the correlation between pen grips and chopstick grips.

The book showed two closely-related variants of the tripod grip. For reasons that will be explained later, we will call the above left posture the Caswellian Grip, and the above right posture the Spencerian Grip.

• We will call it the Lateral Grip here. *