Description
You’ll love this issue of Drawing if you want to learn more about:
- Drawing with inks and pens
- How to add a sense of spontaneity and motion to your drawings
- Depicting anatomically correct male and female figures
- New approaches to comic strips and comic books
Each issue of Drawing provides working artists with information and inspiration regarding the foundation of all art: drawing. If you work with charcoal, graphite, pen, colored pencil, or any other drawing media, this is the magazine for you.
The spring 2014 issue of Drawing focuses on the medium of ink, with articles about traditional methods of ink drawing, ways that contemporary artists are using ink in inventive ways, and the pen-and-ink artist Paul Madonna. Other topics include: how to draw simple symmetrical objects, the anatomy of male and female figures, the architectural drawings of Alyssa Dennis, and the winners of our second annual Shades of Gray competition.
Highlights in the Spring 2014 issue of Drawing include:
- A 4-step sketching sequence
- The 14 winners of the 2013 Shades of Gray Competition
- 12 differences between male and female figures that can impact your drawing
Feature Articles:
Newsprint Poetry
Paul Madonna’s new take on the newspaper comic strip.
By John A. Parks
Fresh Ink
Seven artists, seven ways of using an ancient medium. Featuring Marcos Mateu-Mestre, Nicolas Delort, Mathew Borrett, Fred Lynch, Noli Novak, Yu-tang Yang, and Mattias Adolfsson.
By Charley Parker
12 Anatomical Differences Between Men and Women
Details to look for when drawing from life.
By Larry Withers
Fantastic Spaces, Grounded in Reality
Alyssa Dennis’ imagined buildings and environments.
By Courtney Jordan
Rhapsody in Gray
Presenting the winners of our second annual competition. Featuring Junghoon Lee, Rodney Thompson, Dan Pyle, John McCartin, Emma Hirst, Terry Miller, Trevor Newman, Amber-rose Hulme, Susan Brinkmann, Philip Carpenter, Cathryne Trachok, Susan Wallace, Gerald Smith, and John Metido.
By Austin R. Williams
The Action’s the Thing
Patricia Hannaway on how to get energy and life in your drawings.
By Austin R. Williams
Columns:
Material World: Ink Initiation
By Sherry Camhy
First Marks: From Scribbles to Symmetry
By Claire Watson Garcia
New and Notable: Leah Yerpe
By Austin R. Williams
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