Michelangelo drawings provide exclamation point to Frick exhibition
"From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci: A Century of Italian Drawings From the Prado" includes studies for commissioned works and sketches that captured a moment, made between 1520 and 1620. Sketches perhaps, but not doodles on napkins; the featured artists were consummate draftsmen, deft with pen and chalk and attentive to detail. Read More >
Her world is worth drawing
"It's wonderful. I live in my head a lot. I'm never bored,'' a smiling Slate said sitting in her second-floor home studio off Columbia County Route 22.
Slate's work has ranged across the comic book world from DC to Marvel to Archie comics to graphic novels. Read More >
Exhibition Celebrates Enduring Influence of Classical Antiquity with Figure Drawings
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The ability of ancient sculptors to perfect the human form has long been revered by later artists as the ideal way to render the figure. Drawing the Classical Figure, on view December 23, 2008 March 8, 2009 at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, brings together more than 40 drawings‹spanning 400 years of art history‹to examine how classical sculpture influenced the representation of the human figure.
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Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
...How would I describe the Batman manga, which, in this book, look like the fading ghosts of comics that died over 40 years ago? The manga have this crazy feeling. One could almost believe that Jiro Kuwata was part of that group of "ghost artists" who assisted Batman creators, artist Bob Kane and uncredited Batman creator, writer Bill Finger, in producing those seminal Batman comic books of the early 1940's...Kuwata's cartooning of the figure, however, is firmly based in realistic figure drawing. Read More >
GOING TO THE CHAPEL: MIGNOLA RETURNS TO DRAWING HELLBOY
Mike Mignola is a busy guy. Between writing "Hellboy," collaborating with John Arcudi on "B.P.R.D.," and conspiring with Guillermo del Toro to bring his demonic hero to life on the big screen in this past summer's "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," it's no wonder the writer-artist's had difficulty finding time to return to the drawing board to illustrate a full-length comic book. Read More >
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From Costume design and illustration
By Ethel Traphagen
There are some books which may help the ambitious student in the life
class to observe and impress on the mind fundamental facts which it is
believed most life-class teachers will agree in thinking extremely useful.
Among these are Dunlop's Anatomical Diagrams, Figure Drawing by
Hatton, Anatomy in Art by J. S. Hartley, Richter, Marshall or Duval, and
Drawing the Human Figure by J. H. Vanderpoel. If the student is studying without an instructor, Practical Drawing, by Lutz, will be found helpful.
ETHEL H. TRAPHAGEN. -
NEW YORK. 1918.
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