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Practice Life Drawing. Sketch sculptures from the
Google Art Project |
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Artists have always sketched from models in order to study the human figure. In drawing classes with live models, quick sketches of action poses are used as warm-up exercises. Lengthier reclining poses, more comfortable for the models, are reserved for detailed renderings. I find these alternatives frustrating because I like drawing the action poses. The angles and shapes are wonderful but there is time only to make a few hurried marks in my sketchbook. And the alternative, the longer poses, present a reclining figure with less interesting shapes because the internal structure of bone and muscle is obscurred when the body is relaxed. And so I usually sketch just the hands or face. |
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Above: Samples from a life drawing lab I attend show two minute warm-up action poses. Their spontaneity contrasts with the reclining figure in the lower right corner. This model held the pose comfortably and nicely for half an hour, but it lacked the vitality of the action poses. On the right: Sketch from your smartphone. Here is my latest solution for finding models that hold perfectly still in action poses while I study the structure of the body and render as much minute detail as I wish from my smartphone, tablet, or computer screen. Sculptures from 17 international museums and art galleries are presented online in Google’s new Art Project. You can tour the galleries and create your own artwork collection or use mine as it is displayed in the thumbnails online. The iPhone at right shows the reference image for my pen and ink sketch of Diana. The Google Art Project image from The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of 32 thumbnails I chose to include in my Artwork Collection from the Google Art Project. |
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Online links to get Started Watch the YouTube Visitor's Guide at:
www.googleartproject.com/c/faq View my Artwork Collection of Sketch Art Sculpture shown below at: http://goo.gl/9dA0b On the left, the statue of Hebe on my Dell Streak 5 Tablet was my reference for the ink and wash sketch shown. I like working from a lighted screen and have included information about sketching from iPads, iPhones, tablets, and touchscreen devices. |
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To see my Artwork Collection on your computer, you will need Adobe Flash to click on each thumbnail and enlarge it like the central image shown on the screen below. On touch screens, tablets, smartphones, iPads, or iPhones you can use your fingers to pinch and spread each thumbnail until it is wide enough to fill the screen. |
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The Artwork Collection I created using the Google Art Project is shown above. To create your own collection, go to the top left side of the Art Project site and choose a museum from the list of 17 as shown above. On the top right side, go to the drop-down “i” list and scroll down to the last item, “More Works in this Museum.” As shown on the right you can choose from a large selection of tiny thumbnails for formatted images you can select and add to your own Artwork Collection. Your selections will be displayed like mine as a row of thumbnails across the bottom of the Art Project screen. |
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Use the zoom box to enlarge an area. Sign in to Create your own Artwork Collection or use mine. On the bottom left side of the site below, you can see
the lighted thumbnail of the full statue of Diana. The enlarged upper
half of the body is displayed in the center of the screen, and on the
lower right side is a zoom box with a slider that you can set to zoom
in on any portion. This zoom box is very useful for artists to look
closely at hands, eyes, or other features, just as they would if sketching
from a live model. |
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Left to right:
My sketches of Diana, Augustus Hebe, Antonio Canova, A Boy at Play, Sir William Goscombe
John, Tate Britain, London |
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| If you create your own Artwork Collection,
you will always have subjects to sketch. |
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To create art using the iPAD and iPhone with the Brushes App, you can sketch on the iPad while viewing your reference on the iPhone. Here, Diana is being sketched from the Google Art Project. |
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My daughter, Kelpie, is sketching on her iPad and using the iPhone as the source for her reference image of Diana. Her sketch has many layers and the steps in her drawing can be played back in the Brushes gallery of the iPad at far right. |
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If you choose to draw from a computer screen when using my Artwork Collection for reference, you can use just one URL link ( http://goo.gl/9dA0b ) to view, scroll through, and enlarge all 32 thumbnails that I have saved. If, however, you wish to view the 32 images on a smaller touchscreen tablet or smartphone, you will only see a few thumbnails at one time. Therefore, I have combined the images into groups of four as shown below. You can click on one link provided for the four thumbnails in each group, view all four thumbnails in that group on your touchscreen device, and spread one at a time to fill your screen for sketching. The links are also in the PDF which you can download and access from your touchscreen. |
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Click on the following Links to 32 sculptures combined into groups of four as shown. |
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