Everything I Know about Drawing I Learned from a Donut

Sometimes as artists we reach so hard for the profound we miss the obvious—that our time would be better spent in direct observation and practice. John Ruskin, the 19th century art critic and author of the first mega-hit art instruction book “The Elements of Drawing,” understood this. He told his students: “Go out into your garden, or into the road, and pick up the first round or oval stone you can find, not very white, nor very dark…” I find that donuts make a great modern substitute for an easy, observable subject matter for art sketches.

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Figure Drawing Basics: Costumes, Clothes or Nothing At All

When figure drawing, one of the biggest considerations an artist must make is how to present the model–clothed, in a full-on costume, or nude.

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