Carpeaux Cast Drawing as of July 14th 2011
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a sculpture in the 19th century, and I’ve been drawing a from a cast copy of his work this summer at Eduardo Fernandez’s studio in Portland. Here is a link showing the studio and our work: http://www.eduardofernandez.com/S/Inside_the_Atelier.html
This drawing started as a simple block-in in the spring, and 15 weeks latter, over 105 working hours, has become what you see above. The following are pictures of my progress on this drawing:
Carpeaux Cast Drawing Block-In, March 29th, 2011
Carpeaux Cast Drawing May 10th, 2011
Carpeaux Cast Drawing June 16, 2011
As always, comments and questions are more than welcome, and be sure to subscribe to my blog to receive an email when new work is posted.
I am very impressed about your drawing. It looks so real I want to touch it. I hope that I can reach this level of drawing some day, too.
Rene, thank you for the compliments. You can definitely get there, I recommend spending a large amount of time in blocking in. As I get more detailed with this drawing, I discover how much time and work I could have saved if I had slowed down in the early stages.
Your words are quite helpful. I will definitely spend more time in blocking in on my next drawing.
Miss Gray,
I left a message earlier asking for the amount of time the drawing from Carpeau’s Nubian took you and I read it in your comments right after. Sorry.
I looked at the drawings you published and I am impressed. I admire your sense of synthesis and the beauty of these drawings you kindly show us. As I am far away form theses great schools and atelier you’ve been to, it’s very usefull to see the work you’ve done there.
Thanks again and hope to see more of your work in the future.
Yvan
Hi Yvan,
It was quite easy to calculate my time spend on the cast drawing of Carpeau’s Nubian Man, as I worked on it regularly twice a week. This is my first cast drawing that I’ve brought near to completion, taking me perhaps 3 times as long as it should. Here is a link to a great interview of the instructor Jacob Collins who I will begin studying under this fall:
Process of Illumination
In his classical approach to creating
and instructing, Jacob Collins
believes in taking things slow.
•Interview by Lisa Wurster
http://www.jacobcollinspaintings.com/images/LWurster_ArtistMag.pdf
The gesture drawings you’ve posted on your site are beautiful, and very sensitively done. Lovely work, may I add your site to my links?
What an honnor you make me by doing so.
You’ll find this week a study of the Nubian done in a much shorter period of time than yours. It made me realise the importance of planning the tones before the execution. I’ll do it again as you make me realise more the need of taking my time.
Yvan