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When I was doing a bit of photo research for my last full-blown picture, “Garglion”, I came across a picture of a series of stone kings mounted along the side of a French cathedral that I believe may be in Rheims France. The image piqued my historian’s interest in so far as to wonder who they were and think they were interesting figures.
A little while later, when I was doing some the pre-drawing sketches of generic cathedral walls for “Garglion” I took a short artistic side street and sketched out what a stone lionmorph king might look like.
Still later I returned to the sketch and tossed a little PhotoShop graying to pretty it up and so here it is.
A little while later, when I was doing some the pre-drawing sketches of generic cathedral walls for “Garglion” I took a short artistic side street and sketched out what a stone lionmorph king might look like.
Still later I returned to the sketch and tossed a little PhotoShop graying to pretty it up and so here it is.
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Thanks, Rath.
You can master shadows. It's not all that difficult.
I used two styles of shadowing in this sketch. Cross-hatching, those slanted lines, and then overlayed it with gray tones in Photoshop.
Start with simple drawings then work your way up to more compex ones. Also, study the work of artists who impress you. Copy their work, but more importantly, try to understand why and how they handled their shadowing the way they did. Every artist's work is an art lesson to be learned from.
Good luck.
You can master shadows. It's not all that difficult.
I used two styles of shadowing in this sketch. Cross-hatching, those slanted lines, and then overlayed it with gray tones in Photoshop.
Start with simple drawings then work your way up to more compex ones. Also, study the work of artists who impress you. Copy their work, but more importantly, try to understand why and how they handled their shadowing the way they did. Every artist's work is an art lesson to be learned from.
Good luck.
I think it was inevitable to dig up that picture of your ancestor. :)
btw, it spells "Reims" (at least in french and german), but never mind me. :)
in some places the names to those statues are long forgotten. if they were ever noted, these scripts are lost. it is believed they were either local nobles or saints, which were part of local lore, the names given forth mouth-by-ear.
btw, it spells "Reims" (at least in french and german), but never mind me. :)
in some places the names to those statues are long forgotten. if they were ever noted, these scripts are lost. it is believed they were either local nobles or saints, which were part of local lore, the names given forth mouth-by-ear.
Ah, forgive the illiterate Yank for his misspellings. :)
Most of the statues on the outsides of cathedrals were a form medieval advertising or propaganda. It was always well to advertise to the peasants that the people running the cathedrals were on good terms with the current descendants of past kings and saints. And of course the sculptures tended to make those kings and local nobles look much more dignified and pious than they did in real life, which flattered their current ruling descendants.
The saints on the other hand ... well that was where fanciful artistic license and theological advertising came in.
Most of the statues on the outsides of cathedrals were a form medieval advertising or propaganda. It was always well to advertise to the peasants that the people running the cathedrals were on good terms with the current descendants of past kings and saints. And of course the sculptures tended to make those kings and local nobles look much more dignified and pious than they did in real life, which flattered their current ruling descendants.
The saints on the other hand ... well that was where fanciful artistic license and theological advertising came in.
I think you really captured the texture and presence of one of those old stone statues. If I ever saw anything like that in person, while we were over in Germany and such, I was too young to really appreciate it. Who knows though, maybe this statue is of the legendary Chrarlamane, the lion who united the Franks and brought Europe out of the Dark Ages.
Thanks Charha.
I have always found History to be a bottomless source for artistic inspiration. I could confine myself just to doing historical subjects and never become bored or find myself asking 'what should I draw next?'
And what is especially nice is intelligent folks like yourself seem to enjoy my little trips back in time. Thanks.
I have always found History to be a bottomless source for artistic inspiration. I could confine myself just to doing historical subjects and never become bored or find myself asking 'what should I draw next?'
And what is especially nice is intelligent folks like yourself seem to enjoy my little trips back in time. Thanks.
You know, this very much puts me in mind of a line from a paragraph from a story I am working on (except the statue is laying down on a tomb) -
"James paused and walked to one of the large crypts rising up from the floor, that had carved in stone on the top of it a female tiger holding a large staff, looking as though she were asleep. Rubbing his paw along the head of the female figure he said, "Great-Great Grandmother Duchess Louisa May Biersdoffe. Even though you married into the family, it did not take the press long to find out that your father was a prince, second in line for the throne, but he never ascended to it."
"James paused and walked to one of the large crypts rising up from the floor, that had carved in stone on the top of it a female tiger holding a large staff, looking as though she were asleep. Rubbing his paw along the head of the female figure he said, "Great-Great Grandmother Duchess Louisa May Biersdoffe. Even though you married into the family, it did not take the press long to find out that your father was a prince, second in line for the throne, but he never ascended to it."
Statues of people long-past hold a story in them that often whispers to us if we pause to listen.
Actually I think the scene you described would make a very thoughtful picture; all greys, with James containing the only non-grey colors in the scene outside of just a light shading of soft light falling on the laying stone tigress.
Actually I think the scene you described would make a very thoughtful picture; all greys, with James containing the only non-grey colors in the scene outside of just a light shading of soft light falling on the laying stone tigress.
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