A drawing of a small floating island with a large curly-topped building and a small house perched on top of grassy ledges, held together by rocks and wooden stilts.
Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
Drawing of a curly-topped building on grassy ledges
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Drawings of imaginary trees and natural structures
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Daily sketch – drawing of a large tree growing on top of several intertwined grassy hill top ledges.
Step by step guide to drawing a realistic head using shadow shapes
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Portraits can be one of the hardest pieces of artwork to get ‘right’.
This is because we all spend a lot of time looking at other people’s faces. We are familiar with the array of shapes and proportions, but is seems to be difficult to put them accurately onto paper without preconceptions.
Closeup of the face on the finished realistic head portrait, drawn in pencil by Peter McClory
Follow my portrait tutorial
Double Wedding Portrait Drawing for Diamond Anniversary
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008This is a recent double portrait drawing I created from an old wedding photograph for my grandparent’s 60th (Diamond) wedding anniversary.
The focus is on the faces and expressions, with a much rougher, sketchy style blending into the clothing and flowers in the shoulder region of the picture.
The mix of texture (in terms of the pencil strokes used) is intended to give a more interesting range of marks on the paper from a purely abstract point of view.
Double head and shoulders portrait drawing (from a 1948 wedding photo for 60th anniversary) by Peter McClory.
The techniques demonstrated specifically in my fundamental portrait drawing tutorial were used to create this drawing.
Peter McClory – Street Painting (Chalk Drawing) in Florence, Italy
Sunday, June 8th, 2008Street painting is an experience I recommend to anyone and everyone.
It is good exercise, most certainly gives you good practice at taking criticism.
It is also a great opportunity to work quickly, at a large scale and under pressure, because you have to wash and scub it all away before midnight (or you turn into a pumpkin… only kidding).
After spending several hours on your hands and knees in the street, on top of a large chalk drawing, it is likely that you may become a little dirty.
Below you can see the first of my street paintings on the road. I was of course doing it all legally, with an official “Madonnari” license in the centre of Florence on via Calimala, just off Della Republica.
For my first street painting I decided to rely more on my creativity than getting bogged-down with the technicalities of replicating famous portaits as precisely as possible.
Webcanvas – One Big Online Collaborative Painting – Largest in the World
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Webcanvas is a large online digital painting project.
A large ‘artwork’ that is purportedly the largest collaborative painting in the world.
It is free to look at and you have to register (for free) to add your own graffiti to it – because that is essentially what it is – a giant digital graffiti wall.
You are given a couple of levels of zoom to get a broader overview of a segment of the wall, but the facility to look at the wall as a whole is not yet possible.
Screenshot of a small segment of webcanvas, the largest collaborative painting in the world
Fez Game, (GDC Design Innovation Award Winner), Post-modern 3D 8bit style Platformer for PC
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Fez is an upcoming 2D and 3D PC Platform-Adventure game with a post-modern 8-bit style. The game is developed by independent game developer Kokoromi.
The unbelievably cute and cool character, Gomez, is 2D and the environment which you have to navigate can be twisted between 2D and 3D.
Fez – 2D and 3D PC Platformer Gameplay Screenshot 1
If all this doesn’t make complete sense to you, read on and then watch the Fez gameplay footage video from GDC 2008, and all will become clear. It may seem like any other platform game, but keep watching it to see the surprise innovation. (more…)
Easy Zbrush 3D Sculpting and Painting Tutorial Lessons Start Here »
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Zbrush is for artists who don’t like getting bogged down with all the technical faff of 3D Computer Software, but do want to try their hand at creating 3D art, sculptures, illustration or animation by using digital methods in artistic ways.
With no prior knowledge of more technical 3D Software like Maya, XSI or 3DSMAX, you can be up and running creating and texturing 3D sculptures within hours.
Zbrush Stone Sculpture by Shames from Zbrushcentral
All you need is a free (trial) copy of Zbrush, which you can download here. It is also extremely beneficial to use a Wacom Pad or some kind of pressure-sensitive digital tablet, as you will find out by following the Zbrush tutorials on this site.
Zbrush Tree
by Mark Bannerman