Life Drawing Balkis Queen of Sheba Fragment of
Life Drawing
• Balkis, Queen of Sheba • Fragment of a Persian miniature
• Boundy School, (India), After the Bath
• Lady’s Toilet • Tomb in Thebes (Egypt)
• Statue from the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi • (Greece) • Archaic era of Greek art
Archaic funerary statue and Apoxyomenos by Lysippus
• Venus de Milos
Golden Section
Eastern front of the Parthenon
Leonardo da Vinci, The Vitruvian Man (Uomo Vitruviano)
Albrecht Durer, The Screen Draftsman, 1523, woodcut
Kathe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait with Pencil, 1933, charcoal on brown laid paper, 18 3/4” x 25”
Gesture
• In the first five seconds, you have the entire body down on the paper!
Left: Auguste Rodin, Lightly Draped Dancing female Nude, 1900 Right: John Singer Sargent, Sketch of a Spanish Dancer, 1879
Robert Arneson, Blink Duck, 1982, acrylic and oilstick on paper, 53” x 42” expanded or sustained gesture drawing
• Kuniyoshi • Sketch for Kakemono-e of Tokiwa Gozen • Ink on paper • 9 7/8” x 22 7/16”
Contour
Richard Diebenkorn, Seated Woman, 1966, 23. 5” x 19. 5”, charcoal
• Egon Schiele • Crouching Nude - front view, 1918 • black chalk • 18 3/4” x 12 1/2”
Elizabeth Layton, Self-portrait: Her Strength is in Her Principles, 1982, colored pencil and crayon on paper, 30” x 22” contour lines
Contour lines
• Blind contour
Continuous line
Gaston Lachaise, Seated female Nude with Uplifted Leg, 1930 -34, pen with blueblack ink and brown ink over pencil AND Seated Woman with Foot Raised, 1933 -35, pencil
Rembrandt, Nude Woman with a Snake (7 heads high) Alberto Giacometti, Standing Woman, (10 heads high)
Edward Hopper, Standing Nude, (7 1/2 heads high) William Beckman, Study for Diana IV, (8 heads high)
Albrecht Durer, Nude Woman with Staff, 11 3/8” x 7 5/8”
Luca Cambiaso, The Crucifixion, after 1570, pen, brown ink, and wash, 21. 4 x 29. 5 cm.
Kara Walker, Untitled, 1996, cut paper, watercolor and graphite, 69. 5” x 66”
Cross-contour lines
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