This might be the last book review for a while as it's the last of the books from my birthday stash. It's the James Gurney book that I've heard so...
Month: August 2020
Inktober All Year Long, Jake Parker: Book Review
This book has been accused of plagiarising Pen & Ink Drawing by Alphonso Dunn. Just watch this video https://youtu.be/bG3ENcAdWBM and make...
Rob Key
It's been a good summer of test cricket. I was watching it yesterday and suddenly realised that Sky cricket pundit Rob key would make a great...
The Artistic Actuary has a Facebook page
So I now have a Facebook page. If you'd like to see my artwork popping up on your newsfeed, please head to Facebook, search me out and like me....
The Rush Collection
And here's the complete set together. It may even surpass the chess player set that I thought was my opus magnus. It's up for sale.
Alex Lifeson
And here's Alex Lifeson, the third and final member of Rush. It's not the greatest likeness and the left hand and guitar aren't great but it fits...
Neil Peart
Next up in either the Rush collection or supergroup collection is the late Neil Peart, one of the greatest drummers of all time and an amazing...
Geddy Lee
Time for another set of marker portraits. I've done chess, physics and westerns, so it's time to start on another passion: music. This is Geddy...
The Complete Urban Sketching Companion, Gabriel Campanario, Stephanie Bower & Shari Blaukopf – Book Review
Another book review, only two days after the book was published. This is a 256-page, A5-sized paperback. It's a mashup of four books from the...
Exposure
Headed over the road to the Rose & Crown at Hartlip To order a lunchtime takeaway for tomorrow (GCSE results day). I couldn’t resist taking a...
Rhus
And here's another naked female figure. This is Rhus, another model from artmodeltips.com. I took a different approach with this one. This...
JenB
I found a great website today. It's artmodel tips.com and is a great source of material for figure drawing. In particular there are lots of naked...
Expressive Figure Drawing, Bill Buchman – Book Review
And it's time for another book review, and again it's a book on figure drawing. After this I really need to do more artwork before reading the two...
Figure Drawing For Artists: Making Every Mark Count, Steve Huston – Book Review
Time for another book review. This is 192 pages long, and is flexibound, meaning it’s a paperback but with a cover that's bent inwards along the...
Headless Amy
So I had another go at Amy, this time without a head. I started from one of the one-minute sketches I did earlier as it looked so energetic and as...
Amy
After the warmup, I was ready to do a proper picture of Amy using the inktense pencils. I started with a decent gesture drawing. There's a nice...
Warming Up With One-Minute Sketches
After a pencil drawing and a painting yesterday, today it's time to give those inktense pencils a runout. And to have a proper go at some figure...
The Frankenstein-Dracula Variation
After reading Painting By Design by Charles Reid, I felt ready to attempt my first watercolour portrait. It started off as the world chess...
The Trio
This one has been brewing for a month or so and I've now got it out of my system after buying some decent paper for pencil drawing (and possibly...
Painting By Design, Charles Reid – Book Review
This 144-page paperback is one of those books that's difficult to categorise. The title and subtitle on the front page make it sound like it's all...