Today’s featured artist is Haddon Sundblom. He was best known for the images of Santa Claus he created for The Coca-Cola Company. He is not that well known today but he did some great illustrations in his day. Enjoy the images I really should have saved him for Christmas time haha. Haddon Sundblom at Wikipedia.

The internet is still coming and going. But I thought I would try and post at least one time today:) So here is a nice time lapse painting demo by Jonathan Hardesty, enjoy.

Well I am having more internet problems. Seems like the only time it really works good is in the middle of the night. But when ever it starts working decent again later I will try and get the next featured artist added and some more added to the art course.

For this next lesson we will finally do painting. And congratulations every one for putting in all the hard work to get to this point. And do not worry I am going to do digital painting also but it will be coming up in future lessons. To start with let me first give you an  [ Read More ]

Well this exercise will be a sort of test to make sure you have learned the basics of what you need. It will not be to see if you know everything about anatomy because you cant know it all at this point:) So even after this section is finished you still need to keep working  [ Read More ]

For this exercise we will be drawing a skeleton in a dynamic pose. First do gesture drawings to find the pose you like. Then do a detailed skeleton in that pose.

For this next exercise we will do some more gesture drawing to loosen up from the last work:) For this one I would like you to do several simple style gesture type drawings. Really try and capture the gesture and movement of the person.  Have them doing things like pushing, pulling falling, dancing, fighting etc.   [ Read More ]

OK for this exercise we want to do several studies of hands in different poses. You can use the constructive method on this one.

This next exercise goes back to the optical way of doing things. You will want to look at areas of light and dark to make the copy not construct it like the last exercise. I know this is some what contradictory but training your self to see in both ways will give you the best  [ Read More ]

For this next exercise you will do a full detailed figure using the construction methods of Bridgeman and Loomis etc.