Sat.Jun 22, 2019

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Why do you think it’s so hard for people to get started with drawing or figure drawing?

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FEATURED , ART & DESIGN 5 Drawing Exercises That Will Turn Anyone Into An Artist The post was authored by Emily Potts with contributions from Whitney Sherman. Whitney Sherman is an award-winning illustrator and director of the MFA in Illustration Practice at Maryland Institute College of Art. She is also author of Playing with Sketches, 50 creative exercises for designers and artists (Rockport Publishers).

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SELECTING THE RIGHT PORTION OF THE SKY

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When ancient Rome needed guidance on crucial issues such as whether to go to war or whether crops would fail, a priest called an augur was summoned to interpret the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds. The augur would look for omens in the direction that birds were flying, whether they flew in groups or alone, and the noises they made as they flew.