Archive for February, 2009

My Left Foot

As I mentioned in my previous post, hate feet and hate drawing them even more. It is always something I’ve tended to avoid preferring to strategically place things in front or not bothering at all together.

Aside, noticed when beginning to shade that the lines from my skeleton foot sketch were coming through ( must get a decent drawing pad) which could of been almost something interesting.

Quite happy with the sketch, but i dont think the shape / proportion is wrong but i do think the depth of field is out.

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• My Left Eye
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Skeleton Foot Sole

I absolutely detest feet; ugly looking things and you can see that ugliness starts under the surface. If you look at the skeleton hand which I drew here, there is an example of elegance , mechanics and the marvel of the human body. The foot is just one mashup of bones which seem to overlap and rub up against each other.

Metatarsus and distal phalanx might be impressive names, but they are un elegant buggers.

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• Drawing Skeletons – Types of Bones
• Drawing Skeletons – Mechanics
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Mummy Drawing *6

The Gratuitous Mummy drawing to warm up. I ran out of paper on this attempt which i put down to accidently using a 2B pencil

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Roman Torso

Final Sketch for the day, Roman statue torso which is on display on the left as you enter the museum. Can’t really add anything to that as there was no information along with it. So I’m guessing

1) Statue had its head chopped off by a private collector and the body thrown on the heap
or
2) Usual Christian damage, statue from an uninteresting site and from a stock room filled with similar statues

Leeds Museum, certainly not the worst museum i have been to, and im sure its great if you are a kid. But i do feel that they have planned the space and exhibitions out very badly. Also there was a fair amount of unintentional dis information in the ancient exhibition. Which I reckon is down to trying to do an over enthusiastic approach to impress the rug rats rather that letting the exhibitions speak to themselves. Final rant, the display of Nesyamun is just lazy friday afternoon work. What should be one of the main attractions of the museum has been pushed into a pokey corner. Oh and the staff don’t seem very approachable for asking questions.

rant over

Anyway, spent a good 40 minutes on it and quite pleased with the result. Feels like my first proper sketch.

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The Leeds Tiger

Neh, quick sketch of the infamous Leeds Tiger. For the record as some of the comments I overheard when sketching it. The Leeds Tiger did not use to roam the city streets. It was Shot in India in the 1800’s, turned into a rug and then sealed back up and put on display. Hence its wide head.

It was also most likely preserved in arsenic, so potentially still a mankiller !

Thing from drawing this, have come to the conclusion not very good at drawing hairy things. so that puts out going to Paris and drawing 15 year old prostitutes with webbed feet.

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