Taking One Liners Further

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):

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

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″):

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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