In one of my figure drawing classes, we had a series of assignments where we had to copy the human figures in over 20 famous paintings. We were supposed to draw them on large sheets of paper. It was a really tough assignment, especially if we had to copy from paintings depicting a crowd scene.
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Taking Shortcuts
Working Better
I recently wrote a 3-part series for Web Worker Daily entitled “Better Web Working”. Although the series was written for online freelancers, I think that anyone who wants to do better at work can benefit from reading it. Here are the links to the “Better Web Working” series (click on the titles to read the [...]
Lessons learned from carpentry
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I’ve always been interested in carpentry. I’m unsure what it was that initially drove my interest, but as a young teen, I was spending a lot of time looking through the Reader’s Digest Complete [...]
