Early this morning I took my dog on a walk and I came across this dead stick bush. I liked how it looked. I thought I saw a dragon head and neck in it. I took a photo and later printed it out, but couldn’t seem to draw a dragon onto it. But I did use my pencil to find and create another more unique fantasy creature!
My favorite class I teach is Illustration at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, CA. I do one to two hour critiques each week of all their cool creations. The semester ended last week, and I am posting a few of the 2018 Illustration Class imaginative illustrations!
One of my favorite things to draw and paint is the human face. And I like to do it with lots of color and expressiveness. I am going to do a free 15 minute demonstration how I paint a portrait on July 28, 2018 in Lancaster. And right after that I will be conducting a 2 hour workshop walking participants through how to draw and paint a portrait. I hope to see some of you there!
I recently made my “Lightninghead” watercolor painting into a night scene with a moon (using Photoshop) . I like how it turned out printed on a black t-shirt.
The lllustration Class that I teach at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, California just ended. And I had a great class with lots of talented artists. Here are some of the illustrations they created. They were done with traditional media– watercolor, pen and ink, and prismacolor pencils mostly.
Most people are always trying to figure out how to draw hands correctly. I decided instead to try drawing it all wrong with too many fingers and impossible positions. I looked at my own hand in different positions to draw this on my high school whiteboard. Maybe it could be some kind of monster’s hand!
For the last 4 years I have had my art for sale as high quality prints on http://fineartamerica.com/artists/frank+robert+dixon
and for the first time ever I am currently offering a discount code: HMKPUL on any of my artwork. The code is good for the first 10 people to use it and ends on January 31, 2017.
This is a large charcoal drawing (40″ x 96″) I am currently creating. I have always loved the expressive gnarly-looking hands that Arthur Rackham drew, and these hands were strongly influenced by Rackham.
For the last 24 years I have been teaching an illustration class at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, California. The 2016 spring semester has just ended and this enthusiastic class was filled with 22 talented creative student artists! Here are a few of the illustrations they created. I included each artist’s name on their illustration.
Yesterday I sent in my one submission to Spectrum 23: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art. This is a challenging book to get in– I have sent in art alm
ost every year for the past 20 years…. and only one image has ever made it into the book (back in 1999). This year I have submitted this “round robot” painting. I created it using charcoal, watercolor, acrylic paint, oil paint and at the end some adjustments using Photoshop. I will find out in April, 2016 if it gets into the book or not….
(Update: it did not make it into Spectrum… I will get to try again next year!)
