15th Century Half Armour – Incomplete
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
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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Man at Arms *2
Last sketch of the day, this time found myself struggling with the horse’s head. Eventually giving up !
I think horses in general have to be one of the hardest things to draw, especially the mouth, It seems a random blob of shapes! In my storyboards (which im pleased to say now back on track on) Once spent a condsiderable amount of time getting a horse somewhat passable only to find out I had drawn it the wrong way around to the rest of the scene ! which remindeds me i need to go out and buy a point 9 pen this morning
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Man at Arms *1
Neh, couldnt quite get the right arm right on this, was sitting in front of it at a funny angle.
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Abandonded Ink Drawings
I thought i would give doing some ink drawings ago, but think i have a long way to go !
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