View allAll Photos Tagged figuredrawing
A 25 minute sitting. I got frustrated about 2/3rds of the way through and started to scribble blue all over it. Then I kind of liked what the blue was doing and scribbled a bit more judiciously.
Prismacolor Colored Pencils on Strathmore Recycled Sketch Paper - Dark Green, Burnt Ochre and Derwent Graphic 8B Pencil
Gérard Audran - "Les proportions du corps humain, mesurées sur les plus belles figures de l'Antiquité". Paris: chez Gérard Audran, 1683
"Gérard Audran, the third son of Gerard Audran Senior, followed his brother Claude to Paris in 1666 and joined him in Charles LeBrun's studio where Claude was an assistant to the master.
Gerard was already skilled in engraving, having surpassed his father in the craft and soon engraved some of LeBrun's giant historical paintings.
He travelled to Rome and produced more engravings which were praised for their technique and liveliness.
In 1683 he produced Les Proportions du Corps Humain which was a careful rendition of the famous statues of antiquity including careful measurements of each which according to Johann Gottfried Schadow were taken by his brother Claude.
The genius of this work though was to change those measurements into proportional measurements which could be used by all artists to apply to their own works in order to achieve the beauty of the classic form."
White Conte pencil/crayon on Canson Mi-Teintes, 18x24 (approx). The feet and lower legs are a little wonky. Argh.