by yimiris | Apr 4, 2019 | Drawing
素描的長河 I was a student at the Affiliated High School of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1960s. When I first saw the drawings of the human form that Prof. Guo Shaogang (郭紹綱) brought back after studying in the Soviet Union as an exchange student, I...
by yimiris | Dec 28, 2018 | Charcoal drawing, Drawing
By Iris Yim We sometimes get inquiries about drawing supplies my father Yim Mau-Kun uses for his pencil and charcoal drawings. Since I’m visiting Taiwan for the holidays, I took the opportunity to take a stock of his drawing supplies. Erasers and blenders Pictured...
by yimiris | Aug 11, 2018 | Charcoal drawing, Drawing
The eyes The eyes are challenging. A common mistake is to make the eyes either too high or too low. Even an experienced artist needs to be very careful. If the proportion is inaccurate, it affects the entire drawing. This can be avoided by using straight lines...
by yimiris | Feb 2, 2018 | Charcoal drawing, Drawing, Still life
Introduction Still life painting became a stand-alone art genre in seventeenth-century Holland. From then on, ateliers and academies in Europe and Russia began teaching still life painting, making it part of the formal fine art education. Still life drawing affords...