Jonathan Day

Mad about drawing. Middle-aged, tall, not yet too fat. Home: the Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA. Earned Ph.D. in Physics, OSU, 2008; currently making living as artist. Go figure.
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More Figure Drawing Tutorials On the Way
I’m happy to see that the Figure Drawing Tutorials page is starting to get some traffic. There are more tutorials on the way. I have in mind several about faces — especially drawing eyes. And expressions — anger, the smile, … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy for the artist, Art, drawing, How to draw hands, how to draw the figure, Proportions, The Face
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Drawing Heads and Faces: The Bare Bones
In this tutorial, and maybe the next, we’ll start with a pretty generic, government-issue head and face, and work through how to construct one from imagination. When we’ve got that down, we’ll begin to look at some of the characteristics … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy for the artist, Art, drawing, how to draw the figure, Proportions, The Face
Tagged anatomy, art, Beauty, drawing, face, figurative, figure, how to, how to draw, human, sketch, skull, tutorial
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The Basics of Drawing the Figure: Part I
It occurred to me a day or two ago, that I need to post some real basic information about drawing the figure from imagination, before I get much further into the intricacies of drawing hands and so on. So here … Continue reading
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Drawing the Figure: Basic Proportions
I’m going to start doing posts about drawing the figure. I’ve developed a lot of tricks over the years, which I think may be of use to others. They’re all going to get collected in a future Figure Drawing page … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, figure, human, proportions
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