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News and Links:

• INKTOBER - Another reminder:) Inktober is coming and a great opportunity for our community to really seat the habit of drawing everyday. Inktober artists from around the world are focused on a routine of drawing, which is great motivation when our little drawing community becomes a part of the larger world drawing community - lean in!

• YOUTUBE SHORT - Such a fun and inspiring sketch!

• MSTRSKTCH STORE - Running coupon sales on a number of products - $10 to $4 dollars off (Sponsored)

• SKETCHBOOK DRAWING TECHNIQUES FOR BEGINNERS - This course by illustrator and concept artist has a bunch of ideas and methods to help get you scribbling in your sketchbook (Sponsored).

• HATCHING - 2 minute read on the basics of hatching and how we might improve the hatching in our work.

• YOUTUBE SHORT - How to sketch ears in one stroke. This is a great practice technique for eyes and noses and whole heads. It forces you mentally track and measure the relationship between difference areas of the face.

• TRAILER - 4 min teaser of Scott Burdick painting a Maasai girl. Scott paints from life using big juicy impasto painting strokes. He’s able to do this because of the many years honing his drawing skills.

• LOOMIS - Another Loomis method demo. I’m a big fan of plain and simple observational drawing. But I do recommend the Loomis method for two types: if your just beginning and struggling, maybe you feel you need some kind of structure or system to get you started. If so Loomis is great. The other type is if you draw from imagination, but if that’s you I’m sure you’re already using Loomis:)

• INSTAGRAM - Have you ever seen such a great character in paint!

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