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FUN WITH A PENCIL  ◇ PART ONE, S3 Today on the  JUFSEN BOOK CLUB,  we'll discuss Part One, Section 3, BLOOK ACCURACY, of the old but gold  Fun With A Pencil : How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw , released 1939 by the American illustrator Andrew Loomis.  This is a summation in own words.  All credit goes to author and creator of the book, Andrew Loomis.  For simplicity's sake,  Part One, HOW TO DRAW FUNNY FACES  has been divided into three Sections.  Section 1 ✿ BLOOK BASICS   p. 13 to p. 24 Section 2 ✿ BLOOK EXPRESSIONS  p. 25 to p. 35 ꧁ Section 3 ✿ BLOOK ACCURACY  p. 26 to p. 49  ꧂ Oh boy! Now the fun really starts! So far you've been learning the Blook Method of building heads. It goes as follows ...  Draw lightly a circle, perfectly round or lopsided. Make then some curving lines to indicate form and direction, making it a sphere in space. From that sphere, you build onto it other basic "forms" (note ...

⦿  THE ASARO HEAD METHOD You might know the Andrew Loomis method of drawing heads, but you might not know the effective and powerful Asaro Head Method. Hop and in see what it can do for you as an artist! The Asaro Head is basically a sculpture made by the fine artist John Asaro , created for the sole purpose of simplifying the head into understandable and straightforward planes.  If you learn and study the Asaro head, you will be able to see how light and shadow falls on any head at any angle. A powerful tool for any artist. And for the cherry on top, you’ll get a more solid construction for your head.  Isn't that just handy and dandy? What’s even more handy, is that on the Asaro head you got the simple side, which is the left side, and the complex side, which is the right side. This is basically to show you how the head is constructed in basic forms, getting progressively more complex to the right. This makes it so YOU can choose the side you want to use or study. This i...

FUN WITH A PENCIL  ◇ PART ONE, S2 Today on the  JUFSEN BOOK CLUB,  we'll discuss Part One, Section 2, BLOOK EXPRESSIONS, of the old but gold  Fun With A Pencil : How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw , released 1939 by the American illustrator Andrew Loomis.  This is a summation in own words.  All credit goes to author and creator of the book, Andrew Loomis.  For simplicity's sake,  Part One, HOW TO DRAW FUNNY FACES  has been divided into three Sections.  Section 1 ✿ BLOOK BASICS   p. 13 to p. 24 ꧁ Section 2 ✿ BLOOK EXPRESSIONS  p. 25 to p. 35  ꧂ Section 3 ✿ BLOOK ACCURACY  p. 26 to p. 49 ... Section 2, BLOOK EXPRESSIONS of Part One opens up the cookie jar, where Professor Blook gives us a bite to taste a whole tray of different expressions. A BIG help when it comes to reference for your very own, imaginative Blook. One key note to take from Blook's  Expression Chart is, as he says himself  "Expressio...

✶ HALFWAY TO BLACK On Dorian Etan's  The Shading Course , Module 8, he gave us insight into a method, developed and introduced by the artist Scott Robertson in his book How To Render , for inventing roughly but effectively shading for our imaginative drawings.  Hop and in and learn how it works! (All images shows drawings and illustrations made by Dorian Etan. All credit goes to him!) Step 1  ❃ Determine your light value Your light value is your Local Value. Your Local Value is as Dorian Etan says, "the general brightness of the material". Think of leather for example. A black leather jacket has a darker Local Value than a brown leather jacket. A white leather jacket has a lighter Local Value than a brown leather jacket. For drawing a white Plaster Cast for example, you would choose your Local Value to be fairly light. In the case of imaginative drawing, you could choose whatever Local Value you want, that's the joy of creating for you! Dorian Etan went with white ...

FUN WITH A PENCIL  ◇ PART ONE, S1 Today on the  JUFSEN BOOK CLUB,  we'll discuss Part One, Section 1, BLOOK BASICS, of the old but gold  Fun With A Pencil : How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw , released 1939 by the American illustrator Andrew Loomis.  This is a summation in own words.  All credit goes to author and creator of the book, Andrew Loomis.  Down below you can find a summation of key points. For simplicity's sake, Part One HOW TO DRAW FUNNY FACES has been divided into three Sections.  ꧁ Section 1 ✿ BLOOK BASICS   p. 13 to p. 24  ꧂ Section 2 ✿ BLOOK EXPRESSIONS p. 25 to p. 35 Section 3 ✿ BLOOK ACCURACY  p. 26 to p. 49 With that outta the way... Let's start! Our buddy and mentor, Professor Blook starts off with saying "Grab a pencil and paper quickly!" because this was a long time, that was all there was to use. Now, however you can use whatever media you'd like, a digital media as for example  ProCreate , or a...

FUN WITH A PENCIL  ◇ PREFACE AND INTRO Let's start the JUFSEN BOOK CLUB  with the an old but gold  Fun With A Pencil : How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw , released 1939 by the American illustrator Andrew Loomis.  This is a summation in own words. All credit goes to the author and creator of the book, Andrew Loomis.  Down below you can find a summation of key points. Andrew Loomis begins with a open quote, suggesting that " (...) Most people love to draw, even when they know little abou t it." And ends with " (...) It's a shame not to be able to do it better". Everybody, all from an engineer, a biologist, a bodybuilder, a mathmatician, of course a drawer and on and on, could all credit in their own way, from learning the skill to draw. That's right, it's a skill! Drawing has often been associated as a kind of special gift , coming from the heavens, that only a selected few can develop. In actuality, it’s a skill we ALL can grow and bloom. Like Br...

MIKE MENTZER JOGGING! In a full interview, uploaded to YouTube, it showed Mike Mentzer, the famous American bodybuilder during 1980's, renowned for his HIT training method, talking and giving insight into the world of jogging, where he said… “Your aerobic activities (jogging, in this case) should all be performed at a relaxed pace.”  He argues that once a person is breathless, huffing and puffing, it would increase the proportion of sugar instead of fat being burned as fuel.  “If you can’t talk easily while jogging or bicycling you are working too intensely, perform your aerobics at what is called Conversational Pace, and you will be using up to 90% fat as fuel, so reduce your pace.” Is it true?  Searching around the internet, there were multiple sources that also, like Mike Mentzer, recommended you to keep your speed when running, not too fast nor too slow.  Check them out. ◇ https://www.verywellfit.com/how-fast-should-i-run-2911126 ◇ https://runcoach.com/index.php?...

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