The Absinthe Art Blog

Drawing of someone I knew.  ---------- Quotations from betty Edwards book. Try this. Read that book. XD It's terrifying. “Simply by observing eye dominance, which is determined by language location in the brain and is fairly easy to detect--Looking at a person’s face, simply focus your direct gaze first on one eye and then shift your gaze to the other eye. In general, the eye controlled by the dominant verbal hemisphere (it may be the left or the right eye, depending on the individual’s brain organization is wider open, brighter, and appears to be listening to the words being spoken.” “The  subdominant eye (usually the left eye) can appear to be almost oblivious to the words being spoken, as though it has given up trying. With other speakers, it is comforting to observe non-dominant eyes that are still alert and participating.” “Try this, but carefully: When face-to-face in conversation with someone, locate and gaze into the subdominant eye. The person is likely

https://www.pinterest.com/theabsintheart/art-tutorials-i-want-to-try/ Tutorials and links to original in here. ----------- “If you gotta ask what jazz is, you ain’t never gonna know.”--Fats waller.

Original top/header image for most accounts. -------- Definitions of words I couldn’t define off the top of my head when reading through: Ablated: To have surgically removed diseased or unwanted tissue from the body Verisimilitude: Ver-i-sim-il-itude. The appearance of  seeming real or true. A paradox: “Something absurd or contradictory: A statement, proposition or situation that seems to be absurd or contradictory but in fact is or may be true.” 2. “A self-contradictory statement: A statement or proposition that contradicts itself.”

Commission from deviantart, if I remember correctly. -------- Seeing Details: “I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.” --frederick franck, the zen of seeing, 1973.

Old drawing of something I eventually want to draw really well. --------- Visual tasks vs. lefty tasks: “The exercises in this book are designed to remove that interference and unblock it.” “IT IS ALL THE SAME TASK”. --Betty Edwards book quotes.