Beethoven X Joker

### Un autre buste, cette fois ci c'est Beethoven qui se prend pour le Joker.
Acrylique et posca.

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Napoléon X Nintendo

### Le style de Mario et Wario colle parfaitement à notre chère Napoléon! Voici des petits bustes en résine customisé à l’acrylique et au posca.

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Custom Game Boy "CASTLEVANIA"

### Game Boy customisé au posca, dommage que l'écran soit abîmé...

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ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 42

### The remarkable Harry Beckhoff drew this tiny picture of a man scared by a black cat in 1913.

What a marvelous design.

Many artists would feel constrained by the actual size or shape of a cat.  Or they might struggle over the fact that a cat walks on the ground around our ankles, so you are obligated to draw the entire body if you want to show the face.

But Beckhoff understood that the design comes first.  Everything else flows from that.


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Munny SPIDER "DEAD" MAN

### Munny 4" customisé au posca.

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THE SKETCHBOOKS OF HOWARD PYLE

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Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was the father of American illustration.   His powerful compositions (such as these horizontal stripes across a background color field)...

...had their origin in Pyle's small sketchbooks where he developed the designs for his pictures.

In some of Pyle's sketches we see him carefully mapping the placement of figures and objects in space:

But my favorites are the ones where we see Pyle wrestling with the abstract designs of his paintings:

 

These images are courtesy of the good folks at the Delaware Art Museum which owns a treasure trove of Pyle's sketchbooks showing the master at work (Thanks, Mary and Erin!)

Figure study

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THE SKETCHBOOKS OF E.F. WARD

### These unpublished sketches are by the illustrator E.F. Ward (1892-1990).

In an era before photography became convenient, illustrators filled sketchbooks with meticulous reference sketches of props and period costumes.  Like a squirrel storing nuts for the winter, they kept records of little details and touches that might be useful for some future assignment. 

 Today, an illustrator who wanted to draw someone in an historical outfit would not have to go through this.  They could easily pluck a dozen reference photos from the internet.

Lest you think that Ward's detailed sketches are anachronistic, he also did a series of faster, smaller figure studies and gesture drawings.  Done for a different purpose,  they were drawn in a much simpler style:

In good, workmanlike fashion, Ward only devoted as much time to a sketch as its purpose warranted.

Ward's sketches reveal a hard working, talented artist.  We don't remember him much today because he had the great misfortune to be working at the same time as Norman Rockwell, J.C. Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish and N.C. Wyeth. 
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Oskunk X Skinizi

### Retrouvez mes visuels pour Iphone 5 Iron Man et Boba Fett version grafitti sur Skinizi.fr.

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