For centuries artist have used darkened mirrors and smoked lenses to help them view a real landscape in simplified tonal values. More on Su...

What are the implications of an AI model that refuses to cooperate? What happens when it tells me that I’m not supposed to imagine something...

Drawing moving objects is a whole different challenge compared to drawing things that hold still.  Sometimes I like to analyze a common moti...

Gilbert Gaul was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1855. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York and worked as an ill...

Hope everyone is enjoying the new book .  I'm curious: What are you working on in your own sketching practice? 

This florist van crashed into something jagged, which sliced through it from under the headlight to the side door panel. (Ballpoint pen and ...

Art: Coles Phillips Your questions about the color black. More on Substack

FREEWAY OVERPASS, markers and charcoal, 11” x 17”. Why do thumbnails? It's a low-risk way of thinking visually. My goal here is to capt...

PATROL HELICOPTER, 1981, gouache on illustration board, 9½” x 13”. Here's the story : A field in Glendale, California, contains what I’m...

The Artist's Guide to Sketching isn't really a "how-to" book, but we do have a chapter with a with a step-by-step sequenc...