Make your own sketch pads

Instructables is a great site if you like to make stuff like I do. As I tend to hoard paper to draw on and had a ton of loose paper lying around I was pleased to find this Instructable : make a duct tape scratch pad.

This works really well and is perfect for making sketch pads, any size or paper type you want. I added cardboard covers to mine and folded the duct tape over the top to make them stronger. And if you do use thicker paper you need a lot more glue.

I made three sketch pads with this method and am running out of paper now so time to start hoarding again.

Kevin Chen demos on ConceptArt

There is a quite an old thread on the Conceptart.org forums chock full of demo drawings by Kevin Chen. These sketches are amazing, you can learn alot about drawing the figure just by looking through this series. There are 3 pages: Page 1, page 2, and page 3
Kevin Chen is a top figurative teacher and concept artist, there is some of his other work here. I wish I had a teacher like this!

Drawing day 2008

On june 7 it's Drawing Day.
Drawing Day is a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art. The internet is an open canvas. Help create 1 million drawings online this day and boost online art communities.
I shall join in and post something on Flickr. If you intend to draw something leave me a comment and I'll post links to my favorite Drawing Day art on this blog.

How to Draw what you See

I found this tutorial on emptyeasel.com. This seems like a good site, mainly aimed at traditional materials and a bit of Photoshop. It is well set out and and easy to read. The idea of drawing what you see reminded me of this excellent article about drawing clutter on the Temple of the seven golden camels blog. I have quite alot of clutter, so when I sit down to sketch stuff the problem of how to get a decent drawing out of it all occurs frequently