I discovered on Twitter a link to an amazing video of a young talented artist that drew the portrait of the genius Albert Einstein using charcoals. The artist is Ryan Harvey also known as HarveyArtifex from Dallas, Texas, United States. In his early 20’s, Ryan is a self taught artist that video tape himself while performing his drawings. He is making videos as a motivator to improve his drawing skills and share his work with his audience.

Ryan’s  goal is to improve his drawing skills as he complete his videos. Most of his drawings were unpolished and incomplete before he started videoing himself.  The drawing of Albert Einstein took him about an hour to do. Very impressive!

You can see more of his work on Youtube.

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Recently Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped, Nikolai Kordulla and Dominik Schmid have released Sketchory.com. Sketchory features over 250,000 drawings which you can share using a Creative Commons license. This license includes commercial sharing, so you could even, say, create a book out of sketches (with a maximum of 1000 images), or remix the drawings to create new stuff, and so on.

Who created all these sketches and where do they come from? The answer is simple, they all come from SketchSwap.com which is an amusing and addictive online drawing tool. It is a flash based site. There are no complex tools to draw or sketch. All you get is a simple, marginally thick brown color sketch pen like thingy. Just like  as if you we drawing something normally with a pencil or a paintbrush. No coloring or anything else can be done.

When you complete the drawing, you click on “Submit Drawing”. Now your drawing is swapped for another drawing by somebody else. Not only that, you get to see exactly how the other user came up with the drawing; the way all the lines were drawn, how it started and how it arrived to the end product. It is something like a video capture of the drawing in action by the person. The same applies to your drawing as well.

Philipp Lenssen said, “Today we open our new site which features over 250,000 drawings for sharing, remixing and more! You can also embed an animation of every image as it’s being drawn. The Creative Commons license also includes certain forms of commercial sharing, e.g. if you’d want to sell a book with cartoons from Sketchory (for up to 1000 sketches). Also, we hope that everyone can help tagging the pictures so that the exploration features and search will improve over time.”

Below are some of the sketches which I liked, thus selected to share with everyone. If you like to see more, then check out their website.

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The best way to improve your drawing skills is to practice sketch drawing. It doesn’t take you much time to practice it and will allow your creative brain to do the work. The technique consist of executing rapidly a freehand drawing. The artist usually use it to record quickly an idea. This way isn’t expensive and the artist can try out many different ideas before painting it. Logically if you draw the same object many times, eventually you will end up drawing the object with your eyes closed.

Do you still don’t believe on the power of the sketch drawing? This technique have been done by many famous artists as Leonardo da Vinci with his sketchbooks. I wanted to practice this technique while blogging. I found this wonderful website, sketchfu.com, where you can practice your drawing and share your work with other people. I will tell you that some of the sketches are quit impressive! If you click on the pictures (below), you can see how it had been done. Happy drawing :D

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