P2 Detailed Drawing Research - Two artists who exemplify mastery of detailed drawing

This was a bit of a challenge which led me to spend several hours looking though websites.

I knew immediately who was going to be my modern artist except I could not remember his name but then I remembered that his nickname was 'Human Camera'. The person I mean of course is Stephen Wiltshire.

Stephen Wiltshire is an artist who draws and paints detailed cityscapes. He has a particular talent for drawing lifelike, accurate representations of cities, sometimes after having only observed them briefly. He was awarded an MBE for services to the art world in 2006. He studied Fine Art at City & Guilds Art College. His work is popular all over the world, and is held in a number of important collections.

Sadly none of his works are on the Bridgemaneducation website and I could not find any copyright free images to include but his work can be viewed on his website http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/

My pre 20th century artist is Albrecht Diirer.

The rebirth of Western drawing in the 15th century came with the widespread production of paper. At the same time the artist became interested in representing in great detail the physical world around him. Renaissance artists made innumerable exploratory sketches and studies of objects, figures, and nature. They formulated laws of perspective, foreshortening, shading, anatomical proportion, motion and direction, and other principles and techniques of drawing. The primary aim of many Renaissance draftsmen was to create the illusion of visual reality in their works.

Albrecht Diirer, a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, was also among the first great graphic artists. Diirer is famous for his detailed studies of anatomy, plants, and animals, as well as for his religious subjects, which include the Holy Trinity (Boston Museum of Fine Arts) and St. Catherine (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City).



Hands of an Apostle, 1508 (brush drawing)

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Another attempt at P1 Observing Shadow and Light formations on a surface

I've had another go at this but am REALLY finding tone hard to do. I feel 'line' are now coming along but 'tone' still needs a lot of work. I can see the different tones by following the screw your eyes up mrthod but I just can't translate what I can see visually into what I am drawing. This is just an area where I have to keep trying and trying more.

Another attempt at P1 Supermarket Shop exercise

I enjoyed this exercise first time round -  I think it was because i enjoyed using coloured pencils. I think this attempt is an improvement on the last.

Flickr and slideshows

Although I have been doing some drawing (yet to be uploaded) quite a bit of time since my last posting has gone into improving resources etc. I have been spending time re-organising my OCA folders and files and also this Learning Log. I've started to add labels to posts and a slideshow of drawings done by artists featured in my Blog. I'm pleased witht he results.

Another attempt at P1 Jars and Jugs exercise

I've taken more care to pay attention to the lines in my collection of jar and jugs. I've noticed the elliptical shape the tops of circular objects become and I've tried very hard to keep lines straight. I'm pleased with the result

Another attempt at P1 Boxes and Books exercise

I've concentrated more on the detail of line in this exercise. I can see that the book's spine looks a little skewif but i still think that compared to how I was drawing 3 months ago, this is a vast improvement.

P1 Boxes and Books V2

PART 2 - OBSERVATION IN NATURE - Back to the drawing board!

Got the feedback back on my first assignment. A very honest appraisal which made me realise I have to up my game.

So today, a new approach to the course. Having read the feedack, I realise that the most important thing is to learn from it. So I have decided that I will repeat the Part 1 exercises, taking onboard my tutor's feedback but also as a practice to improve the basic techniques that are taught in P1. Today's repeat exercise was the Basic Shapes and Fundamental Form exercise (Boxes and Books). This time I properly READ what the exercise was about. Suprisingly I found re-doing the exercise was strangely enjoyable and by the time I had finished, I felt like I had done a warm up exercise in preparation for the first P2 exercise - Line drawing Detail. For the P2 exercise, I chose to draw a sliced through red cabbage. It has taken me about 3 hours to produce this drawing. In fact this is my second attempt - I was not happy with the first one, so I re-did it again, this time properly looking at my cabbage. I feel I have done a better piece of work. I hope so!



Assignment 1  Boxes and Books repeat exercise







Assignment 2  Line Drawing detail exercise - sliced red cabbage