Venus' Backside #1
Following on from where I went back to Leeds Museum to redraw the Megaloceros giganteus, going back to the Art Gallery, I decided I was going to revisit Antonio Canova Venus . Initially, I was going to do just the head, but walking past and umming and erring I decided I was not in the mood to be frustrated by her chin, so instead I went for her backside.
Which proved to be equally frustrating. There is something wrong with this statue. I was really battling with not trying to draw what I know, but what I see. The shift of weight on the hips seems all wrong to me, and so do the shoulders.
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Eric Kenningtons 'The War God'
A very quick sketch of the statue ‘The War God’ at Leeds Art Gallery. You can see the original here . I was at the gallery for, the very last Leeds Sketchers Meet, which was appropriate, as it was where the first one was inFebruary last year. Though it is the last ‘Leeds Sketchers Meet’, it is not the last time we are meeting. We will be meeting in March under the name, The Leeds Savage Club. Check out this link after the 3rd of March for details.
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Incomplete 15th Century Half Armour
Following on from the warm up sketch, I attempted to start drawing the whole piece. I have added a couple of photographs I took of the armour, to my smokeback albums on fotki and flickr
I do have quite a good understanding of how armour is constructed, I used to be an armourer and I did find that helpful when sketching out the initial shape. However, as you can see from the photo’s, the decoration on the amour is quite detailed and this is where I got stuck.
Someone said to us the other day, about being not being able to draw. I think drawing is two things; The first is observation and the second is having a bag of tricks. The more drawing you do, the more tricks you add to that bag.
When it comes to putting an intricate 2D design onto a curved surface, I have to say, I am stumped.
Definitely something I am going to have to come back to …
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Armoured Glove - Warm Up Sketch
The Second meet of the Leeds Sketching group 2010, and this time it was off to the Royal Armouries.
The left, is a quick warm up sketch of a 15th century armoured glove. The glove is part of a half set of armour, which I continued to draw in my next drawing.
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Anterior Dissection of orbital cavity
Moving onto the anatomy side, here is an Anterior dissection of the right eye. Unlike the ears where I started with the smallest bones and worked out. I wanted to start with the eye, from the outside and work inwards. After doing my sketch of my left eye, this seemed the next logical step.
Its a bit of a creepy image as well, which is always a good thing. A bit of a bombardment of new labels to learn, and I was going to write some of them down for you. But, when looking them up I have come across two excellent images relating to the muscles of the eye (obliques and rectus) which I am going to draw next. It also going to tie back to my drawing of the cranial nerves. so watch this space.
The drawing itself, is a bit elongated in my opinion. I think this might be slightly down to how I was copying it , with it being rested on my knee. I also tried a new sketch pad which I got from Rymans. Its called “The artist A4 sketchpad 180gsm” . It might be good for ink, as the paper is quite solid, but I had a real hard time blending on this. You can probably see, not even zooming in, that the blending is quite harsh.
Unlike the cheap boldmere sketching pad, in which I turned its downfalls to my advantage, I cant see this pad being used for much more than doodling. Save your money.
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Chance Date:
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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Human Anatomy
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Anatomy, Anterior, Eye, Muscles, Obliques, Paper, Rectus, Rymans, Skull
