DrawingAcademy
Drawing by Peter Bajec
My name is Peter Bajec, I live in Maribor, Slovenia. I am retired M.Sc. Civ. Eng. Buil. Constr. and now 71 years old!
In 2009 I started drawing and painting same kind of “modern realism”. I was browsing free art lessons on the web and trying to learn how to draw and paint. My art education was free internet lessons and many books and some magazines (Leonardo Collection, Malen und Zeichnen)…
Portrait by Tom Limo
I am an ordinary person and to win the Drawing Academy course to improve my drawing skills…
Portrait of a man
Artwork by Lucian HRAB, Drawing Academy graduate
I found I like to draw old men portraits. Depicting grey hairs is always a challenge but it seems to work now!
Before, I used to draw with soft grade pencils (4b to 8b); and now I enjoy some brighter tones. For this drawing, I used 4H and 2B…
Templo de St. George, Utah.
Artwork by Jairo, Drawing Academy student
Este é um dos templos de minha igreja que fica localizado em Utah, EUA…
Everyday fundamental practice
Artworks by Maryshi, Drawing Academy student
I am a postgraduate medical student at daytime and a art lover at night.
To gain professional drawing skills, I started my everyday sketching practice since Jan 31 this year from the very very basic geometric forms to more complex ones and now to real life objects…
da Vinci’s La Belle Ferronniere (Copy)
Artwork by Dan S., Drawing Academy student
Done around 1495 this painting takes its name from the ferroniere the sitter wears around her brow, a common Lombard fashion. In the nineteenth century this work was much admired and widely copied.
A main challenge in the beginning was to capture the correct dimensions of the head in the three-quarters view. The Drawing Academy video lessons and the supplementary text (Drawing the Human Head) helped very much with this…
The Gift of Art
Story and drawing by Jack Fischer
Art came alive to a dyslexic, low-self esteem boy that needed direction. At an early age, I had a gift for drawing. My eye and hand worked in tandem tracing objects and images in a very short time. On cold, wintery days I would lose myself copying National Geographic pictures. Living in Chicago, my mother and I would visit the Art Institute and enjoy seeing Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Rembrandt’s portraits.
Upon graduating from high school I went on a European trip to see the Masters paintings of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and Michelangelo’s Sistene chapel ceiling. I was awestruck at the realism of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa capturing her facial expression, skin tones and her eyes. Why it looked like wherever I stood her eyes followed me. “What was she thinking? Was she in love?” To think this painting was over five hundred years old. When I walked into the Sistine Chapel my senses came alive.
Two years after graduating from Indiana State University as an All American gymnast, I was practicing for the AAU Championships and was paralyzed from the neck down doing a double back flip off the parallel bars. I was suicidal without hope until I saw quadriplegic, Joni Eareckson using her mouth to hold a paintbrush. Her talent was still there despite her disability. I said to myself, “if she can draw, so can I.” …
