Cast drawing in progress, Hesiodos, Russian academic approach. Work at Hera atelier
H.H.E.S.
Drawing, painting and designing
keskiviikko 23. syyskuuta 2020
maanantai 21. syyskuuta 2020
sunnuntai 1. joulukuuta 2019
torstai 15. marraskuuta 2018
Design Sketching: Insects
And just today Feng himself posted instructions how to tackle these bug structures. You're supposed to linearly plot every double point with x-rectangles or v-symmetries etc. and not cram this many studies on page for this particular assignment because of its complexity. Plus the eye level is not meant to be this high. Oh well...
tiistai 15. toukokuuta 2018
Design Sketching: Animal Skulls
Edit: 6 pages of studies as of October 18. This post got quite a bit more traction than expected. I almost left it at 5 pages and casually posted on my facebook wall not expecting anything but it was shared in some groups. All the more reason to do the last one.
Referenced from natural history museum photos (own) and web images.
sunnuntai 13. toukokuuta 2018
keskiviikko 28. maaliskuuta 2018
Design sketching: rocks
Rock sketches, inspired after fzd training program, term 1, wacom tablet, ipad pro+ apple pencil and zebra airfit lts ball point pen, compiled on A3 pages with industrial design style lettering and notes with design elements
Tunnisteet:
composition,
design sketching,
photosop,
study
maanantai 8. lokakuuta 2012
Tumblr Era 2012-2017
http://hsuhonen.tumblr.com/
So I blogged at Tumblr during 2012-2017 (major part of the university years which I started 2011) but never really got into the culture there as it was mostly about reblogging . Blogspot/Blogger is still among the Big 5 Social networks so lets reactivate this.
So I blogged at Tumblr during 2012-2017 (major part of the university years which I started 2011) but never really got into the culture there as it was mostly about reblogging . Blogspot/Blogger is still among the Big 5 Social networks so lets reactivate this.
maanantai 1. lokakuuta 2012
Drawing study
Conté Carbone on A4 paper. After Ingres' "Monsieur Leblanc". Good training for the hand-eye coordination as Ingres is one of the greatest draughtsmen in world of art, The Master of Line. Innovation is based on solid foundation (Old Masters) plus study of nature plus one's own personality. Just as the pianists play Bach over and over again so should visual artists learn from the giants of art.
Tunnisteet:
Master copy,
observational drawing,
sketchbook
lauantai 22. syyskuuta 2012
Ingres copy: finished!
I read somewhere (James Gurney's instructional book Imaginatice Realism) that mastercopying is a traditional practice, romantically considered a transcendence rite in which the student absorbs the previous great master's skills and spirit and analyses the masterpiece's composition, value control, figurative structure, anatomy knowledge, craftsmanship, technique, palette use, drawing, texture portrayal and tries to feel the same emotion the painter must have felt while painting the subject. I essence, meditating on the beauty and intelligence of the work. Therefore it is important to pick only the classic works by the finest figurative painters in history since even the greatest painters sometimes produced mediocre work and copying mediocre works only enhance mediocrity so it must be avoided.
The Valpincon Bather is considered the greatest nude painting of the 19th century, one of the definitive figure paintings in entire art history alongside Velazquez's Rokeby Venus. Valpincon Bather is Ingres' calmest painting as his other paintings of the female figure were quite wild, the scholar Gerald Ackerman commented even "perverse" (in Gerômé: Life and Works). Ingres' paintings are some of the most meticulous and finished to the highest degree in art history. This finishing and simplified classicising is what I wanted to learn from Ingres as well.
After summer break, back in Rovaniemi, I immediately began finishing this master copy, as documented in the blog post on late spring. I bought a pair of 4000 kelvin cool light bulbs for better lighting and painted from Friday August 31 till tuesday September 4 late night, detail after detail, zooming the reference image from computer screen. The deadline was on Friday, September 7, and the work was almost dry then. The teacher simply commented that this is "a stunning display of patience."
It could be the camera distortion but the right shoulder seems just a bit too wide, and the curtains still need some fine tuning.
By the way, I also finished the self-portrait.
sunnuntai 26. elokuuta 2012
Late summer studies and pocket sketches
I read a book about the American Golden age of illustration and made master study of Charles Dana Gibson's iconic pen-and-ink drawing. A fraction of a millimeter makes a difference in such a delicate profile.
My summer job is over. I used every chance to draw from life when I could. These pocket sketchbooks were really handy. Drawing from life is like doing push-ups for the mind. I used the Reilly method to capture gesture from moving figure and then relied on memory more or less.
torstai 16. elokuuta 2012
Open air sketching
Gas station at Järvenpää. Watercolor on sketchbook.
Thumbnail sketches at Itäkeskus, Kellokoski, Jokela and Purola. A bit rough but it's all about the experience, keeping the skills up and recording color scemes for possible later assignments.
Tunnisteet:
buildings,
landscape,
Moleskine watercolor sketchbook,
plein air
tiistai 7. elokuuta 2012
sunnuntai 15. heinäkuuta 2012
Digital painting WIP (updated 2)
Edit 2: The stage after rendering, detailing and fine tuning. I used a reference to achieve fluorescent light feel. There's also a slight desaturation filter. The shiny bag is still pretty sketchy, and the face could be less stiff, I tried to avoid making it over worked, not too much air brush. I may add some skin pores and cloth texture for credibility to see if that helps.
I was sketching while returning from work via commuter train. I painted a preparatory value study of the sketch with Art Rage 2. Finished with Painter 11.
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