Think and thick line technique, sometimes called thin-thick line emphasis, is a way to quickly improve line drawings and make them pop, especially if they are hard to read overlapping 3d shapes. It’s all about thickening selective lines that show any edge that joins to a surface you can’t see. Lines that join two surfaces you can both see remain thin. Many artists do this instinctively, and it’s not a hard and fast rule. Have fun with it. #drawing#howtodraw#sketching#illustration
King's Crown 👑 also known as Western roseroot or ledge stonecrop. It grows in western US and Canada at high elevation. It's also good for rock gardens. Fun little plant with clusters of flowers. Only grows to a foot high.
In other news, new microns are a dream to draw with.
From my series of drawings of power lines around Hamtramck & Detroit, Michigan (mostly). I started the series in summer 2020 and just hit #100 a couple weeks ago. My website has a gallery of all the drawings from the series so far, including links to buy prints of several of them
Thanks to https://infinitemac.org/ I can go back to that seminal moment when my dad bought a #mac instead of "one of the complicated ones". Endless afternoons after school drawing my own stories. Today any vector software is a puzzle for my brain, but #clarisworks felt like a #playground.
days 39-40 of my #100DaysChallenge of drawing animals. I continued working on some watercolors and more intentionally to be finished stuff - with the result that except for the elephants that were actually finished at this point, the rest is still languishing in my room in the same state like, 2 weeks or so later. Gah. I hope I'll have the energy to actually finish them this week!
This #wasp and #frog were very satisfying to finish, and I learned a lot from them. In fact I learned so much that I immediately had the urge to start over with new versions or very similar images at least, but did not yet get around to that. So many things!
on day 62 of #drawing#animals I drew a bunch more goldfish, trying to find image references with poses other than a straight profile. I still want to draw more #goldfish :)