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Before The Paint


Sarah Finnigan

  The Character In Context Show first opened in 2024 at the A. R. Mitchell Museum in Trinidad, Colorado, and becomes an annual show with it's return this coming May. The show is curated by fellow illustrator Elliot Lang, and has a unique focus on the process that goes into artists creating human-made, hand-crafted artwork. Each artwork is accompanied by an artifact of the preliminary process, hanging alongside the final. Starting this new painting during the…

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How to Embellish Reference Using Bridgman’s Design Strategies – A Video Demonstration


Ron Lemen

November 25, 2024 - Today's video post is on how to push reference to meet your illustration needs using some of the strategies from George Bridgman's Complete Guide To Drawing From Life.  This is a follow up to the Bridgman decoded videos I have been putting up on YouTube over the past two months.  The video is a 45 minute demonstration which you can play on 1.5 to 2x speed to get through it quicker.  I might sound like a chipmunk talking at that speed but you can still hear what I'm saying throughout the demo. This drawing would be considered a first pass design drawing that could eventually be taken to a cleaner line drawing finish before the paint is applied if this was something I was in need of using for a finished piece.  I might continue adding…

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