Tag: drawing
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How to Erase Ballpoint Pen
I don’t know about you, but I love ballpoint pen drawings. They can include precision, cross hatching and expressive qualities that many artists such as Andrea Joseph, Oscar Ukonu and Jonathan Brechignac have exploited to full effect. Ballpoint pen has the added bonus of being permanent and therefore waterproof, which is useful too. But, and…
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10 Experimental Drawing Processes
For me, this year is going to be all about ‘process’ and this blog post explores 10 experimental drawing processes. What do I mean by that? Rather than concentrating on single media I’m going to think more carefully about creating processes that my students can go through so that they create exciting, experimental work. We…
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How to do Inktober in School
This blog post contains Is it too difficult to do Inktober in school? After all, can we really ask our students to draw every day for 31 days? I find Inktober so appealing, that I wanted to find a way to do it with my students. Asking for a drawing every day in October is…
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What Can I Draw? – 100 Objects to Draw
‘What can I draw?’ The answer may be below. This list should inspire you as it has 100 drawing prompts. Like most activities, drawing improves if you keep doing it. The ideas below require you to put the object in front of you, or a picture of the object, and to carefully draw it. Feel…