Many of the Masters of the past, particularly the draftsmen, were seriously interested in learning how to depict the Human Form (albeit in an interesting & artistic manner). One of the tried & true methods they used consistently was the habitual practice of doing sketches of Greek and Roman sculptures from antiquity. So about a month ago, I along with a very good friend & artist Ricardo Vicens (www.ricardovicens.com), made one of our routine trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (clearly one of the best collections of art in the world). After we looked through the recent exhibit of Rembrandt & his Dutch contemporaries we decided to do some studies of some of the sculptures at the museum in order to exercise our visual perceptions & to improve our understanding of the human form much how the past masters would’ve done. So here are the two drawings(studies) that I did from the Met’s newly renovated Greek/Roman sculpture wing…Enjoy!
…as you can see I still need to work on all the figures a bit more (i.e. bring out shadows, highlights & detail), especially the faces of Joe. Usually it takes me about 24 hours to finish these portrait drawings, & right now I’m at the 20 hour mark, so hopefully another 4-6 hours should bring this work to completion, oh & I still have to add a few flowers here and there to decorate the piece up a bit. The other commission I’ve posted is the initial stages of an abstract painting using a split-complementary color scheme of yellow-green, blue-green & red.
