The picture of the cat has no purpose I just thought the internet didn’t have enough cat pictures. Today I was continuing to try to get he hang of perspective. Still very hard to actually draw what I see. I was fighting the urge to draw all the apples at roughly the same size almost constantly. Despite knowing about perspective.
Anatomy of Mythological Creatures
From the wickedly creative mind of artist and author E.B. Hudspeth comes a series of illustrations depicting mythological beasts in the meticulously labeled style of anatomy textbooks.
The images here are borrowed from Hudspeth’s The Resurrectionist , a two-part volume that includes The Codex Extinct Animalia, “a Gray’s Anatomy for mythological beasts, [including] dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus” and others.
This is brilliant!
Need to work out how to do noses and lips. I know I should just draw what I see but I think my brain keeps getting in the way. Also still need to work out how to do shading and make it look ‘right’ :)
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
A very little bit of perspective. Based on my quick 5 minute sketches I do every day I have a *lot* of work to do.
Drawing On The Right Side
Now my eyes are slightly less bad than at the beginning of the week I will practice noses and lips this week. Then on to the exciting world of ears. The next chapter in Drawing on the Right Side … is all about perspective. I am not looking forward to it as my ability to draw a straight line is not particularly good at all :(
Incredible 3D Artwork
These truly unique pieces by Japanese artist Yuki Matsueda literally jump off their canvases toward the viewer. Escape seems to be the main theme of the sculptural work. The artist takes objects, signs, and items of everyday life, mounts them and then appears to deconstruct them by having an important or needed element fly off the image. The clear acrylic wrapping of the sculptures ultimately acts as a kind of barrier to the outside world, constraining them within a kind of impenetrable force field.
Matsueda appears to be making a comment on the desire for individuality and escape from societal rules and norms, with the clear acrylic acting as the inevitable reaction to the attempted escape, literally stopping the object in its tracks. The artwork also displays a sleekness similar to that of high-gloss ads. Matsueda has a background in design which clearly shows in these pieces.
