LINE BY LINE - Opinionator. This is the final installment of this series.
In this last column of the series, I will show you the process of conceptual thinking, sketching, research photos, painting and lettering that led to a finished theater poster, in this case one for Jon Robin Baitz’s play “Ten Unknowns,” which was presented at Lincoln Center Theater in 2001. Nearly all the steps in creating the poster involved drawing. In “Ten Unknowns,” Malcolm Raphelson, the central character played by Donald Sutherland, is a figurative artist who had a period of New York success in the late 1940s, just before the rise of Abstract Expressionism as the dominant painting style. As the play begins, it is now the 1990s, and Malcolm has retreated to a remote Mexican town, dispirited and contemptuous of the current art world. His art dealer, trying to encourage him to exhibit again, has sent him a young man to assist him in his work. LINE BY LINE - Opinionator. This is the second in a series.
Pope Boniface VIII was looking for a new artist to work on the frescoes in St. Peter’s Basilica, so he sent a courtier out into the country to interview artists and collect samples of their work that he could judge. The courtier approached the painter Giotto and asked for a drawing to demonstrate his skill. Instead of a study of angels and saints, which the courtier expected, Giotto took a brush loaded with red paint and drew a perfect circle. The courtier was furious, thinking he had been made a fool of; nonetheless, he took the drawing back to Boniface.
This is often told as the story of the ultimate test of drawing, and I don’t dispute that it is very hard to draw a perfect circle. James McMullan This is the first in a series. Drawing, for many people, is that phantom skill they remember having in elementary school, when they drew with great relish and abandon.
Drawing tutorials. How to Draw a Water Drop. Drawing Tutorials Online.com. Drawing Tutorials Online - Podcast 9. Eraser Drawing - Tip of the Week 06/22/09. Triangulation How-To. Ok, so now we know how to measure angles and draw the corresponding lines on our pad.
So how do you go about drawing this handsome fellow by triangulation (at last)? Remember the side-angle-angle theorem? One side and two angles determine a triangle. Meaning they determine the position of the missing vertex once you know two vertices. So we start by choosing an arbitrary line to be the given side in the side-angle-angle theorem. I notice by scanning vertically with my pencil that the central point of the head aligns vertically with the inside of the right leg and with the point where the foot intersects the inside of the leg.
Now what do I draw? The Breakthrough Figure Drawing Course by Riven Phoenix. Drawing Lessons - How to Draw the Portrait - Drawing Figure - Drawing Still Life. How to Draw a Nose - Anatomy and Structure. Podcast 18 Anatomy, Form Plus Drawing from Memory. Measure Lines. Head proportions - drawing skulls. Ten Minute Drawing Techniques. Introduction to drawing cloth/fabric. Drawing cloth/fabric 2. How To Warm-Up For Gesture Drawing - Part 02. How To Warm-Up For Gesture Drawing - Part 01. How to Draw Interesting Poses. Glen Keane Draws Beast, Pocahontas, and Tarzan. Drawing Tutorials Online - Podcast 9. Drawing Tip of the Week - Edges and Tone. Glen Keane Ties Down A Drawing. GLEN KEANE'S AMAZING SKETCHES PART 4 LAST.