Saturday 9 July 2016

Driving all the Horses at Once as Robert Beverly Hale puts it


Later in the same notebook as the hair styles. At the back so probably 2014 by then. Is this more fluid drawing which approaches a completeness in execution. I think that to begin with its actually best to do utilitarian poses that affect the musculature. This pose is fanciful but still demonstrates an improvised memory drawing of the surface anatomy.


Hair for the Female Diagram


Using the principle of observing reality, memorizing the hair in the round, then when back home with my materials I then try to recall and schematize the hair style so that I can use it on my memory drawings based on the Diagram Female images. Richer's Images obviously have hairstyles of turn of the 19th Century Paris.
I really love contemporary hair styles like asymmetrical sharp cuts but for a start I have went for something traditional but still common in Scotland today.
The first drawing is dated December 2013 and the next three sheets follow in a direct sequence in the notebook so are directly related to each other but probably not the same day.