DRAWING -ribbon Animal
Ribbon Animal
M.C. Escher, "Bond of Union," 1956
Established Practice
MC Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.
Artist MOdel- Jaume Monserret
Jaume Montserrat is a Barcelona based illustrator. His greatest passions are nature, society and traveling. He draws trying to blend those three worlds. Jaume found inspiration for his project ‘Emptyland’ while on a flight back home from South America to Spain. Montserrat fell asleep and imagined waking up on an island where he lives for 29 days with other animals. He explains: ‘On this island, there was only one animal from each specimen (kind of like Noah’s Ark). All of them were empty, asexual and immortal. They didn’t need to hunt, nor were they scared of being hunted – so there was a perfect symbiosis.’ He and the wildlife lived free from worries, and that empty paradise is what sparked these images.
Where are we going?
This task will bring together all the skills we have learnt from line and observation, Value and shading and texture. You will demonstrate your skills in this area by creating a "ribbon Animal" inspired by Monserrat and Eschers Bond of Union work. Here are some examples of student work for this task
Drawing Ribbons
watch these videos and give both techniques a go.
Ribbon Animal process
Select your animal, [www.unsplash.com or choose printed one]
Trace contour drawing of your animal
Pay attention to the face and eyes
The body needs simple outlines and a few details of wing placement etc
Practice drawing ribbon with the double pencil method [slide 3]
Break up your animal with a continuous ribbon on your drawing paper
Render your drawing with value. Pay attention to the head and facial features. Use texture on parts of the animal and ribbon*
*for a merit/excellence texture MUST be used on the ribbon part of the animal. for an achieved, value only can be used on the ribbon, but texture must be attempted on other parts of the animal