Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Hands hands hands!

Sorry everyone, I am obsessed with hands now. My art teacher evidently thinks we need a lot of improvement in our hand drawings, because she showed us all the things that we forgot to include in our drawings. Such things as proportion, form, how to make a girls hand look feminine and boys masculine, wrinkles and veins, etc.... So she showed us a lot of picture of really amazing hands. I was so struck by them that I looked them up when I got home. And here are my favorites: This one is a self portrait. The coolest self portrait ever! It amazes me that this guy was able to do this. I believe the artist is M.C.Escher. Look at how detailed the hand is, even in the reflection of it. And it is perfectly proportioned.
This one I know is M.C Escher. This is hands drawing hands! It's amazing how it looks like the wrists are flat on the page, and then the hands pop out of it to draw each other. http://www.mcescher.com/


This is Michelangelo's statue of David. So much detail, and in stone too!






For some reason this one is my favorite. This is Michelangelo as well. I believe this is from a painting of God creating Adam. I LOVE the look of this painting! I saved it as my desktop background with a light blue background to contrast it. I am always looking at it now.
So, it is evident that I cannot draw like this, but these men are masters. I am talented to some degree;not brilliant. However, I am going to do all I can to learn from them and improve as much as it is possible for me to improve!
Sorry if I bored you all, but this fascinates me. =)



2 comments:

Christi said...

Oh, those are soo cool! I'd seen the first and the last one before; actually my mom has a little tray thing on her hutch in the living room with that last picture on it. I think it's supposed to represent how man was/is separated from God through sin. (you see the cracks painted between their hands.)

Kris said...

Very nice hands. I remember having to dry my hand in my drawing class in College, it was tricky... and mine turned out really bad. I adore Michelangelo's David. It's on my list of things to see before I die.