I've started posting over at tumblr at sakievich.tumblr.com . It's much easier to use from my phone or ipad and links into my instagram. So, go there, follow it and carry on.
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A couple of blog posts I've found on drawing accurate ellipses. From the old Cennine Products Blog http://cennini.blogspot.com/2010/07/elusive-ellipse-by-far-most-common.html From Douglas Fl...
http://sakievich-classnotes.blogspot.com/2013/06/drawing-accurate-ellipses.html
This is a fun activity that I've had the students in my DSGN 100 class do, where we take the van der Geest portrait by Van Dyck and draw out three value pattern shapes and then make cut paper ver...
http://sakievich-classnotes.blogspot.com/2013/04/van-dyck-value-analysis.html
I just accepted a professorship with Savannah College of Art and Design Hong Kong campus . I will be working with foundations and illustration students and start this September. I am very ex...
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Last nights drawing I did in class at UVU to show a process of drawing the human head. I primarily used charcoal pencils.
http://sakievich-classnotes.blogspot.com/2012/01/uvu-rendering-human-head-demo.html
I'm attempting to list the local open figure drawing sessions between the Provo and Salt Lake City area for my figure drawing students. If you know of any additional ones, please let me know. M...
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Castle one hour speed paint from today. Here's the Corel Painter Script. The image is 800x600 and you may want to add a dark gray background to the canvas before you start it. Animated g...
http://sakievich-classnotes.blogspot.com/2011/11/castle-speed-paint.html
Today we moved past the black and white landscapes that we've been copying into still lifes. With this series of copies I want them to do them in two tones while keeping within the one hour limit...
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Another demo from this morning's class. This is a copy from Arnesby Brown.
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As part of my digital painting class this semester, we're doing one hour speed paints. The first part of the semester we are doing speed copies, later on we'll be doing more imaginative and origi...
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After introducing my students to customizing their wacom tablets and styli, they requested a demo from me. Their first assignments in the class are to do master copies, so I selected van Dyck's...
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Updated June 1, 2011 I've seen a lot of posts on the importance of animal drawing and various methods by various artists lately. Here are a number of them that I've collected. Let me know if...
http://sakievich-classnotes.blogspot.com/2011/03/animal-anatomy-and-drawing-links-and.html
Odd Nerdrum is one of my favorite contemporary painters, he's referred to as a "new old master". Richard Scott Thomas recounts his experience of working with Nerdrum and how that has benefited...
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Matthew Innis presents info on the newly released and sold out Nomad Brush for the ipad. It looks really interesting, especially since you can have a light touch on it. Other styli I've used req...
http://sakievich-classnotes.blogspot.com/2011/02/nomad-brush-for-ipad.html
I teach figure drawing at the 100 level at Brigham Young University. We focus a lot on the form figure and a simplified version of anatomical structure in this class. Students initially begin wit...
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Boing Boing blog did a picture feature on what's in James Gurney's bag. A wonderful assortment of drawing materials is what's in there! James Gurney's Blog
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Daniel Sprick has an upcoming show at New York's Arcadia Gallery in March. It should be a jaw dropping exhibition. Matthew Innis has a preview of the show on his blog. Sprick was also intervie...
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I've not been posting much for the last little while due to a deadline. Since this is time sensitive, I thought I'd take a little break and put this up. ConceptArt.org's The Art Department is ...
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The preeminent Mike Mignola was recently featured in an article on his use of architecture . He also provided USA Today with a great short Hellboy story. I like to show Mignola's work to my ...
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19th century Spanish landscape painter Carlos de Haes featured on the Bearded Roman blog. There are large detailed images if you click on them.
http://sakievich-classnotes.blogspot.com/2011/02/carlos-de-haes.html
Hi Res zoomable images from major art museums worldwide, not completely complete yet, but some amazing work available to see here! I've added the link to this page to the left hand Utilities/Refe...
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Propaganda posters featured on the Animation Archive blog.
http://sakievich-classnotes.blogspot.com/2011/02/wwii-propaganda-posters.html
Gorgeously illustrated Japanese book from the 19th century.
http://sakievich-classnotes.blogspot.com/2011/02/eight-dog-chronicles.html
Israel Hershberg is a painter educated at the Pratt Institute and the State University New York in Albany. Recently founded the Jerusalem Studio School in Israel. He has recently been featured ...
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I added to the handouts pages for both Digital Painting and Head Rendering. To the Digital Painting Handout page, I added my paper set, which includes the mars textures, canvas textures, and vari...
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