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May 2, 2006
Doox - Project 3A : Anotomy/Renaissance Sketch
My work ( pencil and paper )
1. Whole piece
2. Zoomed in view
What's the work among 3 pieces below influenced my sketch above?
Ex1.
Ex2.
Ex3.
I am really interested in anotomy. Human figure has strong feeling by itselft because we are so accustomed to what it's talking about. The body languages we daily see from people tell so many things about the persons. Even the most subtle changes of face muscles, poses and movement of human figure say something for us to recognize their emotional status or reaction to certain matters. I want to know how it actually works in terms of communication and I want to express something out of the strong visual empathy we have toward human body.
My drawing is from a photograph of the book called "Anatomy for the artist" by Sarah Simblet. This book has awesome photographs from well defined models and detailed explaination of anotomy. One of the great things about this book is the photographer made models to pose the same way with the characters from famous master piece drawings. Also the lighting is pretty similar to the drawings.
So, the answer is Ex1. by incredible Leonardo Da Vinci. Other drawings are some images I randomly took from google image but those are reasonably random and I will talk about it later in next paragraph. Leonardo Da vinci's sketches are famous for its precise discription of what the objects really are not to mention the beauty as art works. His anotomy sketches were from his research on actual dead body. They are good examples of how he put great value on the study from inspection rather than speculation when philosophical study was dominant and abundant in its era.
The main reason I chose Ex2 and Ex3 is because of the difference of how the sketches was executed. Ex1 by Leonardo Da Vinci has same one directional hatch lines naturally describing the shades and giving the hint of volume and texture of the surfaces which is compared to that of Ex2 having bunch of hatch lines with different directions. In Ex2 you can see some hatch lines are crossing each other perpendicularly. In traditional pen drawing those lines are not good in terms of giving hint of natural shades and textures. They make somewhat unnatural look in the flow of shades and textures and bother the eye of spectators . Ex3 has no specific hatch lines.
I should do sketches more often. I also like to draw using totally digital tools like tablet but I find it really heightening my creativity when I use non-digital old fashioned tools like pencil and paper. Not only for drawing but also developing ideas for project design just like the parctices we had at CTIN 542.
Posted by doox at May 2, 2006 8:17 PM
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