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this week i started my largest doodle. it will be 1,50 x 0,90 meters (about 39 x 35 inches - if I coverted correctly) which is the exact size of our livingroom table.
blood weeps
from the unguided riot.
Rage and affections opposed.
Immodest highness
comes to be hated.
Perfectness of memory
shall grace past evils.
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For this assignment we had to draw a mammal and I chose an Asian Elephant. I shot the photo at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, shortly after the birth of baby elephant, Pathi Harn, in 2010.
I think the skeleton looks a bit dodgy. I found a number of skeletons on the internet but nothing matched the posture of my elephant, so had to make it up.
I left out the muscle structure. Muscles are attached to each rib bone which I have drawn too thin and it all just became too complicated.
The course:
www.edx.org/course/drawing-nature-science-and-culture-nat...
We now have received the final information and instructions for week 6:
The task:
A fully rendered drawing of a plant, flower, or an animal.
Wow! This is getting serious and the amount of work is just about mind-boggling. Everything is explained in detail; From furs, to feathers, to eyes, and more.
I have learnt a lot in this course. At this stage, the final task appears overwhelming and I think I will have to spend more time on this task than the 3 - 6 hours recommended each week. So, I am not sure whether or not I will be able to complete this task in time.
Be it as it may, once I am finished with it, even if it is past the due date, I shall upload my work on flickr.
Depending on how seriously one is taking this course, it is quite involved, definitely worthwhile doing. For me, doing it in six weeks is stretching it a bit because I am a somewhat slow worker :)
This shot was taken from Broadview Avenue in Toronto and shows the Don Valley in fall colour with the Toronto skyline in the background. In the original image, the tree colours appeared muted because of the skyline colours so I thought about how to change that. I came up with this solution: turn the skyline into a monochrome line drawing. I also cropped it to a square format to eliminate some visual distractions. - JW
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D5000 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense, ISO200, Aperture priority mode, f/6.3, 1/250 sec. PP in GIMP: duplicate the image onto 2 layers, top layer named trees, bottom layer named skylline, use colour desaturation tool to make the skyline layer monochrome and then apply the edge detect filter followed by a colour invert to yield a monchrome line drawing version of the skyline layer, then on the trees layer adjust tone curve to clean up the image, increase contrast slightly, boost saturation overall slightly, then using a large soft edged brush remove the area in the trees layer that had the skyline in it to reveal the monochrome line drawing in the skyline layer below. Flatten, sharpen, add border and scale to 1024 wide for posting.
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Endpapers by Thomas Maybank.
"The Wonder Book of Why & What" edited by Harry Golding, F.R.G.S. and published by Ward, Lock & Co., Limited of London and Melbourne. Undated but just after WWI.
"The Little Red Wonder Book;" A First Book of Religion for Little Children by Lewis Gilbert Wilson. Illustrated by Clara E. Atwood. Copyright 1917, The Beacon Press, Boston.