Pen & Ink: Studying, Learning as Continued Engagement

Overview: Learning & Art, Why?

I love keeping a sketchbook: drawing with pen and ink and a big element that keeps me engaged, aside from seeing others’ works or getting feedback on mine, is learning. This comes up enough in conversations with other artists, like exchanging favorites of current art books or resources, that I decided it would help me to write it down somewhere.

Recent Learnings

Here’s my own efforts that I can speak to (and maybe even recommend):

Resources

Books

Here’s some other resourcesI can speak to–anything from “I couldn’t get through this” to “love this and read use it regularly”:

Auto-Curriculumn

Here’s a sort of “auto didact’s art curriculumn” I’ve written myself with input from friends with similar interests. I imagine this list is only really interesting if you have an obsession with figure and portraiture drawing. It’s useful to me, and hopefully to others, in that it’s a directed collection of resources towards a particular focus. I don’t imagine it’s realistic (or maybe even interesting) for anyone to rush through this list like one does through an actual academic institution’s curriculum.