Knives and engraving » sketch a day http://www.knivesandengraving.com Handmade art Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:08:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Sketch a Day: Days 15-30 http://www.knivesandengraving.com/2009/03/sketch-a-day-days-15-30/ http://www.knivesandengraving.com/2009/03/sketch-a-day-days-15-30/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:21:27 +0000 Viljo Marrandi http://blog.knivesandengraving.com/?p=272 Here are the next and final sketches. Some better, some worse, some outright ugly. But the good news is that it can only get better!

Pencil sketches

Pencil sketches

Pencil sketches

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Sketch of an eye and nose

Sketch of a mouth and ear

Sketch of a hand and owl

Sketch of a squirrel and eagle

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Ok, panthers usually aren’t that ugly, but it’s a start, right? Actually I start to like this drawing/sketching thing more and more. I just have to practice to get anything that might resemble a good result.

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Pencil drawing of a bald eagle

]]> http://www.knivesandengraving.com/2009/01/sketch-a-day-day-4/feed/ 0 Sketch a Day: Day 3 (and bit of Zippo shading) http://www.knivesandengraving.com/2009/01/sketch-a-day-day-3-and-bit-of-zippo-shading/ http://www.knivesandengraving.com/2009/01/sketch-a-day-day-3-and-bit-of-zippo-shading/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:14:11 +0000 Viljo Marrandi http://blog.knivesandengraving.com/?p=233 Today’s sketch gave me also fits. Just couldn’t get it right.

Pencil sketch of Newton's photo

Maybe some of you recognize from which photo this model is taken from? There were 4 of them… Anyways, I think I will take a little break from full figure drawing and try out something else. Maybe just hands. These don’t come easily either (what does?).

But on another note. One Zippo engraving is starting to take a shape. Today I managed to start shading. Here’s a bit of it.

Engraved Zippo shading

]]> http://www.knivesandengraving.com/2009/01/sketch-a-day-day-3-and-bit-of-zippo-shading/feed/ 0 Sketch a Day: Day 1 http://www.knivesandengraving.com/2009/01/sketch-a-day-day-1/ http://www.knivesandengraving.com/2009/01/sketch-a-day-day-1/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:18:30 +0000 Viljo Marrandi http://blog.knivesandengraving.com/?p=225 I came up with a weird idea – make one sketch every day for next 30 days. Sketches will be studies of human figure and animals. Mostly human figure. I will post all my tries here, so in the next 30 days I will post at least one post per day.

Main goal is of course to learn to draw, so when someone wants an engraving about anything besides floral scrollwork I can do it. If you can’t draw it, you can’t engrave it.

Many human figure studies will be made from Pose Maniacs site. This site has about 19000 different poses for the exact purpose of learning human figure. Visible musculature and no hair. Perfect.

Here’s today’s sketch.

Human figure drawing

I hope that after 30 days there’s some improvement…

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