Are markers obsolete? I don’t think so!
Back in school I did most of my renderings with colored pencil and airbrush. I only used markers very sparingly, they were expensive and didn’t seem as forgiving as I would’ve thought. I remember...
View ArticleOvercoming my fears
When I was 10 years old I tried, as any other kid, to draw cars. As happens to almost everyone, the result wasn’t what I expected, so I stopped trying to draw them. For years I’ve dodged drawing...
View ArticleExperimenting with Copics
Last Saturday Prof. Leytham lent me his Sailor brush pen so I could try it. It is designed for Japanese calligraphy, which brush can produce beautiful lines of different widths. I fell in love with...
View ArticleOde to Hideous
Could somebody PLEASE incorporate Aesthetics 101 into Engineering Curricula? When an otherwise beautiful landscape is completely disregarded and desecrated with all sorts of “engineering marvels” we...
View ArticleVirtual Paintout- Japan
Here I used my son’s Faber Castell Manga Shojo set and my Copic markers; I am really enjoying sketching this fast and loose. *edit: LOL@ my Japanese calligraphy… I’m probably cursing there on that sign…
View ArticleSketchcrawl 31: San Juan, PR
I only could sketch for a couple of hours, as I had a class, but my industrial design students joined me at the end of the class and participated as well. I always had wanted to sketch the courtyard...
View ArticleGarabateando #6 @iupi
Last Saturday our sketching group Garabateando.com went to my Alma Mater, the University of Puerto Rico; it is affectionately called iupi, “short” for UPR. We met at the historic quadrangle, where the...
View ArticleSketching on both sides
Today one student told me another professor had taught him that he should never use the left side of his sketchbook. It is the second time, in two different universities that a student tells me the...
View ArticleSketching on both sides
Today one student told me another professor had taught him that he should never use the left side of his sketchbook. It is the second time, in two different universities that a student tells me the...
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