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French Ballet Dancer in Oriental Costume circa 1900s
This is one of my most recent dancer maidens. She took a bit longer to draw because of all the small the small jewelry and details. Some of the patterns in her pants were a bit cookie. I added eyes on them. The costume is one of my favorites. There is always a nice joy trying to draw something complicated with a lot of small moving parts. These days most outfits are complete eyesores, except for those who use traditional outfits. As far as innovation is concerned everything is sadly lacking. It would be nice to see dancers with fancy...
Russian Dancer in Egyptian Costume from the Early 1900s
This is a nice beautiful Egyptian dancer. Her costume was not too accurate. Rather, it was the Russian approximation of what Europeans expected of Egyptians. The Russian dancers of those days were influential in the development of modern fashion, with the short hair and the oriental fabrics and patterns. This is well noted in the dressed of the 1920s. They were flat surfaces with hundreds of elaborate patterns. It was made in mimicry of the attires worn by the Russian dancer. They all wanted to get away from the sensibilities of the previous 1000 years. No more corsages and constricting...
Russian Dancer of the Red Socks circa 18th Century
Drawing figures dancing is an interesting venture in it of itself. It is not something that can be done properly by drawing from life. It is at this point where the camera comes into play. It can capture a moment in life, while the figure is in motion. It was admirable how it was managed in the old days. Just think of how many times the little model had to twirl to help the artist. Well, old paintings had the preliminary sketches and the other sketches. Very few painters had genuine photographic memory. I only know of one that had...
Colombian Graffiti Photo
Traveling often allows one to see many strange and wonderful things. Graffiti is one of those things people either love or instantly hate. It is usually the latter, I do not know why. Then again, it depends on where it was done. If you purposely ruin someone's workplace then it would certainly annoy lots of people. Graffiti tends to be more accepted in other parts of the world. It certainly at least dolls up a place that is falling apart. This is a photo of one I saw while in Colombia. It looks pretty cool, don't you think. The city...
Elegant 18th Century French Maiden
All artists and mangaka artist have a favorite color. It is sometimes not obvious which is the favorite color. People tend to compromise their likes in order to be liked by others. As for me, I like pink. Pink is one of my favorite colors. I wish there were nicer pink dresses. Transparency is also a bit hard to manage. I handled transparency by just drawing the shapes in black and then painting beneath the dress. Jewelry also requites plenty of work. As a short hand, people tend to just color the jewelry yellow or just use metallic pencils. This...