I buy way too many magazines. I love bite-size information, new and interesting articles, and the fact that I can read them outdoors at morning tea time. Sure, you can find a lot of similar information online, but I already work and study online, so for relaxation I prefer a printed page. For pure drawing content, my favorite is American Artist - Drawing, but there are quite a few other magazines with a good proportion of drawing-relevant content too. If you have a theme in your artwork, such as nature or wildlife, magazines and journal articles and images can be a great way to gather ideas and inspiration. Just be sure to only use public domain imagery, purchase stock photography or take your own photographs for specific reference material.
Check out my magazine suggestions and add your own favorites in the comments.
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I used to get “The Artist’s Magazine” and really like it, but realized I was only interested in a small number of the articles. I really like their quarterly (I think) issue only on drawing, which I think is the first one you have listed.
Finally, before I moved the last time, I went through them all and with an x-acto knife cut out only the articles I wanted to keep. I reduced my stack to about 10% of what it was. Someday I plan to put those articles in a 3-ring binder. In most cases, the title and issue of the magazine appears at the top of the pages, but where it doesn’t, I was careful to write that information on the page, in case I need to go back for any reason in the future. Also, who knows — I may want to write an article myself someday and quote someone, and I certainly don’t want to plagiarize.
Thanks for all you do, Helen.
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