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Taking One Liners Further

23 Thursday Apr 2020

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Hi everyone!

We are in the middle of celebrating 10 years of online classes! I received a question in our 10-Year Anniversary Class asking whether I ever took one-liner drawings “further” or if I just considered them as exercises.

They can be both!

  1. An exercise to get your hand moving and to get your subconscious in the driver’s seat.
  2. An idea-generator and/or the beginning of a final piece of art.

Here is a short tutorial of how I might take a one-liner further:

a. Find a reference to draw (or just draw from imagination):

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b. Do several pages of small one-line drawings:

lionstep2

c. Pick a design you like and re-draw on a bigger piece of paper using a black Sharpie pen (size here: about 6″x8″):

lionstep4

d. Now “thicken” some of the lines as shown below and color in. Round edges!lionstep5

e. Add a first light layer of color with Copic markers:

lionstep9

f. Add a second layer of color with markers and colored pencils:

lionstep13

g. Last step: add details and dots with a white paint pen and a pencil.

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I look forward to seeing your One Liners taken further! You can share at the Carla Sonheim Presents – Share Your Work! Facebook page!

And if you’re not sure how to do a One Liner, I have a Drawing Blast mini class with a video demonstration! Sign up HERE. Free!

Hello Everyone! Video Greetings from Our Teachers

19 Sunday Apr 2020

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Hi!

We hope you are well this Sunday.

We sent an email last week to our teachers and asked if they could record a little “hello” from their studios. You can see them all in one place at our Vimeo Showcase HERE, and I’ve attached them below, too!

We hope you have a good week!

xoxo
Carla

___________________________________________________________________

Lynn Whipple:

Karine Swenson:

Kara Kramer:

Diane Culhane:

Cori Dantini:

Cat Bennett:

Anita Lehmann:

Nelleke Verhoeff:

Dar James:

Lendon Noe:

Melinda Tidwell:

It’s Our 10-Year Anniversary of Making Online Classes

13 Monday Apr 2020

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It’s been such a strange month and I hope you are well and hanging in there through all of what’s been happening! I have been okay, kind of up and down, and definitely at times have only been able to do the minimum required of me, which means I missed posting this special class here on the blog as usual!

We are celebrating 10 years of making online classes! We will have some teacher-generated goodies soon, but the first thing we are doing is having a live streamed online class with me… which starts today!

Click HERE for more info and I hope you have a good day!

Carla

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