Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The soulbone's connected to the good drawing bone

Bones are like souls--they only show through sometimes, but it's always at really important junctures.

The tany below is a marvelous work in real life--I spent a good 30 min studying it and whoever sculpted knew his anatomy...very, very well. He didn't have tension and relaxation down, but mass, volume, and twisting where all there. I was looking at a real dinosaur.

These were drawn sometime last summer...along with 3-4 (or more) other sketchbooks of this stuff.

If you're wondering eremotherium is Science for "giant sloth." I had a great joke about what it really means, but am exercising my right to discretion...*sigh* ...it was really funny, but alas, also terribly inappropriate...


3 comments:

Anthony Holden said...

I've always thought that about that museum, too...the models' poses aren't great, but these sketches are!

Chelsea Stebar said...

That skeleton sketch is AWESOME. Beautiful work.

Tyson Murphy said...

nice washes here, mike.