Tag Archive: “art”

Pencil Test

This is a test of my emergency portrait drawing system.

The drawing on the right was drawn left handed. (I’m right handed.)

Posted on Tuesday, September 11th, 2012. Tags: art, drawing.

Time Lapse Portrait Sketches

Here is a brief montage of four portrait drawings, recorded at two seconds per frame.

I like sharing these time lapse drawing videos because I like the *process* of drawing as much as, if not more than, the resulting artifact.

— Jim (@anoved) July 11, 2012

My prior experiments with time lapse drawings can be found here and here.

Posted on Wednesday, July 11th, 2012. Tags: art, drawing.

Weekend Artifact Coda

It’s been a few weeks since I posted a new weekend artifact, so I’ll conclude the series with one more drawing:

Posted on Thursday, June 21st, 2012. Tags: art, weekendartifacts.

Weekend Artifact 15

Drawn with a brush pen thingy.

Posted on Sunday, May 13th, 2012. Tags: art, weekendartifacts.

Weekend Artifact 14

Ballpoint pen sketches.

First, some fútbol doodles – sports photos provide a good reference for interesting poses. Trying to get a feel for the motion in a scene without worrying too much about details.

Second, portraits! Just let the lines spill out and see what happens. You might like it.

Posted on Sunday, May 6th, 2012. Tags: art, weekendartifacts.

Weekend Artifact 13

Posted on Sunday, April 29th, 2012. Tags: art, weekendartifacts.

Time Lapse Portrait

Here’s another time lapse portrait drawing:

I like this video orientation better, but I realize it’d probably be better if the camera wasn’t quite so close to the page. Frames are five seconds apart, so the whole thing took four or five minutes.

Click here to see the final sketch.

Posted on Sunday, April 22nd, 2012. Tags: art, timelapse.