Accurate drawing

Don’t choose to be more expressive simply because you’re not capable of accuracy yet. Expand your abilities so that you have the choice. 

Stan Prokopenko

Simplify

How many weak designs have you tried to correct by adding something?

Each addition subtracts.

Instead, distill your message to its essence. An image. A word. A thought.

It’s true for speaking, it’s true for writing, and it’s true for design.

John McWade

Whole (short) article here.

Virgin birth

Who in their right mind would believe in a virgin birth today? Probably about the same number of people who would have believed it 2,000 years ago.

David Robertson

50th anniversary of CS Lewis's death

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Using computers to fix your mistakes :-)

No idea why the white paper looks grey!

On the left: My pencil drawing.
On the right: Face smaller on head, head smaller, neck longer, waist longer, thighs longer, not falling over! Still not superhero proportions, but at least not completely weird looking!

And here she is inked and coloured:

Using photo reference for illustrations

If it’s right (ie, looks just like the photo) but looks wrong (ie, the drawing looks weird) then it’s wrong.

If it’s wrong (ie, doesn’t look exactly like the photo) but right (ie, looks good as a drawing) then it’s right.

Declan Shalvey

Ancient Hebrew music

This lady thinks she has decoded the ancient hebrew music for the Psalms etc. Whether or not she's right, this is beautiful:

You could fit the English words to it as well, if you wanted.

It's a nice soundtrack to my work, although ironically I am drawing the musicians from Daniel 3!