Learn to draw one of the magnificent and mysterious Easter Island Statues that stand as proud symbols of a long lost culture.
Meet World Famous Illustrator Alex Brychta, who has illustrated over 500 books in the Oxford Reading Tree!
If you are under 30 you probably learned to read with Alex!
I had the pleasure of visiting Alex at home last week and talking to him in his studio about his amazing career in which he has illustrated over 500 books for the Oxford Reading Tree.
I first saw his work back in 1986 when I first went to Oxford University Press and a green and innocent young illustrator. While I was there, they saw my Lydia books, which were made up into dummies, and said they thought they’d fit in with the ORT. They showed me the first ORT books, which hadn’t yet come out, so I was sworn to secrecy!
Alex has been drawing Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy ever since and is now helped by his father and and old friend who has learned Alex’s style so they can keep up with the schedules.
There will be more next week when Alex shows us some of his techniques
Have a look inside my latest sketchbook. This is one of my small sketchbooks that I carry around with me if I’m going somewhere. It’s a Moleskine sketchbook with nice watercolour paper, But I didn’t do any water colour in it! all drawn with Rotring Tikky Graphic pens.
Australian Artist, Bill Flowers has been down to the beach for the Wednesday Drawing Show this week. He’s been looking at crabs and showing us how to draw them. They are quite amazing creatures. Go and subscribe to Bill’s channel on YouTube, where he has a new wildlife drawing Video every Friday. This is hiis cartoon crab drawing and this is his more advanced Crab drawing.
I was inspired to turn my crab drawing into Robo Crab! I made Robo Crab’s shell out of metal plates and gave him replaceable titanium jaws on his pincers!
I also thought that crab body parts could make up a lettering design too.
So, lots of ideas, and this week’s drawing task is to draw a crab or something similar that inspires you and turn it into a Sci-Fi monster machine. Upload your drawings here I’ll show the Uploads on the Sunday Gallery Review Show here
Enjoy and see you next week!
How to draw Caricatures – Sunday Gallery Review Show
Following the How to Draw Hearts Video on the last Wednesday Drawing Show, here are 23 different ways to symbolise love!
I know it’s a little early for Valentine’s stuff, but you don’t want to get caught out on the 14th of February having not made a card for the one you love! So, to get you prepared, today’s show is all about hearts. Actually it’s really all about shading and colouring with the heart shape used as an example to show a few simple drawing and colouring techniques.
This week’s Drawing task is to draw a few hearts and see if you can design something a little different for Valentine’s Day. How many heart designs have there been over the years? Millions I should think!
When you have your design go to upload page and upload your drawing for all to see. I’m now doing a regular round up of these drawing in the Sunday Gallery Review Show, so go and have a look at all the amazing creativity from The Wednesday Viewers too.
Also includes, what’s in the mail? And the Snake Drawings that were missed off last Sunday’s Gallery Show
This week, Nick from the WashedUpTV Channel on Youtube joins me to talk about caricaturing.
I got to know Nick when he surprised me with a caricature he had done of me!He’s made a series of videos showing his technique and thought process which you can see here. He’s also drawn many caricatures of famous people which you can see on this playlist. Nick has a very individual style and you will learn a lot from following his funny tutorials. Make sure you subscribe to his channel to keep up with what he’s doing.
I’ve had a dismal go at Drawing Nick and President Obama. Caricature is a real skill. by drawing faces everyday, you build up a knowledge of how they are put together and also what it is that gives a person their unique character. Over time, you’ll build up a dictionary or vocabulary of shapes, noses, moths and eyes, and you’ll be able to spot people’s outstanding features and put all your knowledge to work. A bit like knowing a lot of words and knowing how to put them together to write a story. It’s all practice!
Brian, who is a Fine Arts Student, has written to tell me that has started up a Thursday Drawing Club! What brilliant idea! I made him a logo along the lines of the Wednesday Drawing Show.
It struck me that you could have a drawing club any day of the week! All you need to do is invite a friend around for tea, watch the Wednesday Drawing Show and have a go at doing the weekly task together. You could do this as an after school club, an Over Eighties club, A town Library, college or University club. The Wednesday Drawing Show is for everyone – age doesn’t matter at all – have a go in your own way. The secret iS not to talk about it, but do it!
When you’ve drawn something and shared it, then you can have a cup of tea and a chat!
Go to the Club Page to find out more and choose which day of the week you want your club and to grab a logo to get you started making posters and invitations for your friends!
I messed up the “Sunday Gallery Show! I should have reviewed the snakes! I’ll do that next week, but you can see last week’s “review here, featuring eyes drawn with rubbish materials.
I am so short of time over the next few weeks, the production quality may go down a bit on the show and there are no captions either, but I’ll do my very best to get the show out every Wednesday.
Learn how to draw this spooky Skeleton Tree. It’s quite easy realy, you just have to plan ahead where you are going to put all the bones!
On a recent visit to the British Museum, I was inspired by a Triptych wood cut print by the Japanese Artist, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858)
In the picture, Taira no Kiyomori is haunted by spectres in the snow. He’s drawn these as skeletons, some skeletons are fused together as trees. I started sketching it there and then.
See it on my Pinterest page http://pinterest.com/wednesdayshow/the-wednesday-drawing-show/
When I got home I practiced a bit and worked out how to fill the page up with this spooky Skeleton Tree design. Have a go.
If you find the skull a bit difficult, then I’ll be making a tutorial on Drawstuffrealeasy very soon.
This video is about How to draw a Simple Skull Real Easy. It is inspired by my drawing of a Skeleton Tree that you can see on my Shooraynerdrawing channel.
Have fun!
