Edward Picot’s blog (incorporating Dr Hairy)

A review of Carson McCullers’s first novel, first published in 1940 and written when she was only 23.

Tutor Lance Richardson, model Kim Frezel. Lance was getting us to draw negative space at first – so the spaces round the outside of the figure rather than the figure itself – then to distort and stretch the negative space; and then to draw in some squares and oblongs and use them as the negative spaces, so that the figure had to be fitted round the outside of them. And then a “normal” life drawing to finish with.

Review of the Eisner nominated book by Eleri Harris and Shay Mirk, published by Abram ComicArts.

Tutor Laura Ribbons, model Peter.

Comic book review: A Garden of Spheres, a fantasy graphic novel by Linnea Sterte, published by Peow2.

 

By Chris Condon and Jeffrey Alan Love, published by Image Comics.

Tutor Kim Plowright. Drawing without looking at the paper; drawing with charcoals and smudging with a rag; drawing with a pencil tied to somebody else’s pencil (I’ve never done that one before); drawing the model on the move; and finally a “conventional” pose.

Tutor Laura Ribbons, model Jon Owens.

Model Holly Vallance, tutor Lance Richardson.

Model Holly Vallance, tutor Evangeline Armstrong