Warning: A few of these sketches are of nude figures.
I've never posted pictures of these drawings because some people think nudity to be very offensive. Even the nude figures in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel were painted over by Daniele da Volterra who later became known as "the painter of pants". I was watching the making of Rick Steves the other day, and he was pissed because politically correct 2010 American suburbia deemed it inappropriate for PBS to show masterpiece paintings which depicted nude figures and had existed for centuries. Lets face it people, we were created naked. I think that these sketches were very important in developing my art though, so if you feel like you would be offended just don't scroll down. Almost all of mankind's creations are based on the scale of the human body. The body's proportions are the measuring stick for structures we build, utensils we eat with, cars we drive, etc.. The technique of drawing human proportions is perhaps the best starting place for any artist.
This sketch is from one of my journals. I posted it for Jen who helped me find gouache at Hobby Lobby yesterday. The gouache, pronounced"gwatch", is the white paint on the face.
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My virgin eyes! You have ruined me for life.
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, the nude is the measuring stick for most great artists too. If you can't draw a nude woman or man (something we're all very familiar with), you really shouldn't be painting.
Ha har, corruption strikes again!
ReplyDeleteToo true. I feel like figure drawing is a passage right in a sense. I'm always most impressed by the artists that can master the rules before they break them. Picasso, for example, was incredible at painting portraitures at the age of 16. Only after mastering realism did he start playin' with the other stuff.
Cheers!