I made this gouache painting many years ago while visiting Ellis Island. I don’t remember if this was inspired by a single photo or the many photos of different immigrants they have there. It’s a beautiful, important place where you can learn so much about our country. Greg Betza ©2018 #ellisisland
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They played off of each other most of the night at the Society of Illustrators. The routine is the same, give the room equal face time, and try not to give one side two backsides of the head. Sometimes you benefit from your place in the room.—Dominick
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Each weekend Studio 1482 will be featuring posts from the One Drawing A Day archives. Today’s post is by Despina Georgiadis, from back in 2016. It’s titled “Stress!!” #ODADarchive We’ve all been there. Pen/ink and acrylic drawing from the model. ~despina
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It had been some time since I last arm wrestled anyone. Not sure if the above image brought about the notion or if it was just long overdue, but I recently found myself teaching someone the finer details of the brute skill. The irony that we also started watching a gauntlet contest of ridiculous feats in […]
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Time bending again. Tuesday. April. February was just a few weeks back. Sitting down I scrambled to get my act together, paints out, pens ready, water, what else am I forgetting, oh, draw, draw, draw. How long is left on the pose? 7:03. Oh, who cares. Get it down quick. 7:05. Change! Wait, what, […]
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Nothing better than spending a Saturday afternoon drawing with my studio mates.—Dominick
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I can’t say that it is the heights that bother me as I have no issue staring out a window 50 stories up—maybe it’s the structure holding aloft, I am not quite sure—but if the world was made of like minded and bodied people as me, we would have barely gotten two stories above ground. […]
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Here is a quick study of a model’s face from a few months ago. Bamboo pen & ink. Greg Betza ©2017
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I made this drawing at the Society of Illustrators a year or so ago. While tattoos are not really my thing I do appreciate the art form. It was a special opportunity to draw someone covered in art. Greg Betza ©2016
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A charcoal study from my days at school. ~Despina
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Last week I was working on some portraits for a job and came across this elderly man. What struck me most was his intensity and bird-like stare at his computer as if he was either deeply deeply involved or just pissed at the numbers running across his screen. Even his hair looked intense! Whatever the […]
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Here is another drawing from High School. This is my teacher who made us draw fast and draw “blind”. He used to have very funny ways of explaining how fast. He once said, “If a pigeon on the roof of this school were to die and fall off the edge, you should be done with […]
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If I were to actually pay homage to the nature of the weather this weekend, at least in my part of the world, I would be discussing the strong winds and sudden shifts of temperatures as we went from hot to cold and back and back again. The problem with being such an interconnected world […]
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Saw this guy on the train last week and drew him quickly before we he realized. I caught the attention of the man next to me who smiled and looked away when I looked up.—Dominick
View post →Two weeks can seem like an eternity and sometimes it can happen overnight. Sometimes both occur to prove science still has not fully grasped the time space continuum. Had I written down my resolutions maybe they would have meant a little more. So I start today. I vow to keep up with this blog, fill […]
View post →Saw this guy at a concert last year. He was not having a good time. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →I made some portraits in the sand while on vacation in Aruba. This is a drawing of my brother with an angry bird on his head. ~despina
View post →A drawing for a Monday morning, man on a train. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →During a drawing session at the Society of Illustrators last Thursday, a photo session was being conducted. They brought in a male model to pose for photos, and while he was up on the stand I decided to paint ink portraits of him. Here is one. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →A really quick drawing of a man on the subway. Decided not to take a manspreading picture and make a drawing instead! Always fun to make a drawing!!! Margaret Hurst
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