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Combining assignments

9/23/2012

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I've blogged about both Sketch Club and the Daily Draw.  The Daily Draw group receives a weekly assignment, and we commit to do a drawing a day based on the assignment.  You can follow us on Tumblr: http://dailydraw.tumblr.com/    And, check out Sketch Club (see http://app.sketchclub.com/ ), which has both composition contests (Compos) and a Daily Challenge.  I have taken on the personal challenge, when possible, of combining the Daily Draw assignment with one from Sketch Club -- which has lead me into some very challenging themes.

Last week, the Daily Draw assignment was insect portraits.  At the same time, Sketch Club had a compo going titled "Remix!"  Here is the description: "Take ONE of your favorite pictures/drawings/paintings, done by another artist (from Da Vinci to stencil art -- up to you) and REMIX it!!!  Don't just copy the drawing -- create something new, cool, funny, touching, romantic or magic.  One image load to give you the structure is fine."  In addition, one of the daily challenges last week was Renaissance: "draw some famous renaissance art or make on of your own, sort of in that style."  So, I double-dared myself to combine all three assignments in at least one Sketch Club drawing.  I needed some ingenuity for this dare!  Here, I think, is the best result:
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The "Portrait of Lucretia Panciatichi," by Bronzino, gave me the "bones" for this drawing, thus, incorporating both the Remix Compo and the Renaissance Daily Challenge into my Daily Draw assignment.  To integrate the insect portrait theme, I used  Princess Atta from Pixar's "A Bug's Life" as Lucretia's doppleganger.   (As I was writing this blog, I googled "Princess Pancitichi" to steal a jpeg of Bronzino's painting and discovered that my drawing was the second hit!  Good gosh! Bronzino would be mortified.  Well, maybe amused. I can hope.)

The Sketch Club community has given me a lot of positive feedback on this one. I credit Bronzino, 100%.  The original painting radiates beauty, elegance, intelligence, luxury.  We see Bronzino's signature notes, the long, graceful neck and delicate,  elongated fingers.   Observe the luxurious fabric and exquisite jewelry.   My humble homage in no way approaches his majestic work.  I worked on my drawing about 2 hours.  How many hours did Bronzino put in?  A hundred?  We don't know.  We do know that his mastery of painting awes and inspires.  Princess Atta pales and curtseys before Princess Pancitichi.

Here, with an inadequate jpg, I present to you Bronzino's regally remote Princess.  Visit her one day at the Uffizi Gallelry in Florence, Italy.



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Patricia link
9/24/2012 06:38:04 am

Came here from the SC forum. Love your blog (spent some time scrolling around) and the explanation of the Bronzini portrait. I also totally love SC but will admit that I am trying to increase my skill level with ArtRage.

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Laura Grimes
10/2/2012 03:52:26 am

I started out with ArtRage and loved it, then discovered Sketch Club. Both apps have strong points and weak points. I've been known to bounce a drawing back and forth between apps, to take advantage of the strengths of one -- save it to the camera roll -- then bring it into the 2nd app as an image load. And use photo-editing apps for cropping and color manipulation. Great fun!

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