Tag: Copic markers

MLK Jr

For our final Drawing Faces scuplted face we drew the Stone of Hope from the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Washington DC.

Vision of Peace

Drawing of a replica of the head of Carl Milles’ Vision of Peace’ sculpture. He made the original in onyx and the replica in diabas stone, also known as Mexican onyx.

(Replica of a sculpture by Carl Milles, 1936, Millesgården, Sweden. Photo by Xanax Svensson -one work, CC BY-SA 3.0)

    Head of the Virgin Mary

    In this week’s Drawing Faces class we drew an ivory sculpture of the head of the Virgin Mary from the Philippines.

    Head of the Virgin Mary, 18th-19th century, Phillipines, Honolulu Museum of Art accession Photo By Hiart – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53161575

    Shakespeare

    In this week’s Drawing Faces class we drew Roubiliac’s terracotta bust of William Shakespeare which is in the British Museum’s collection.

    Portrait bust of William Shakespeare by Louis-François Roubiliac, 1702-1762: The British Museum: © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence

    Monk

    16th century statue of a Japanese monk drawn with Copic markers and coloured pencils.

    Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an Ã³bà)

    In this week’s Drawing Faces class we drew a cast brass Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an óbà or king from the Court of Benin) from the 15th-16th century.

    Minerva

    In yesterday’s Drawing Faces class we drew Minerva’s head from the Roman Baths in Bath, England. We used gridding to help with accuracy and I used Sharpies, Copic markers and coloured pencils for this drawing.

    Nefertiti

    In this week’s class we drew the bust of Queen Nefertiti with Copic markers and coloured pencils.

    Bust of Nefertiti, Egypt, 1352-1332 BCE, Neues Museum Berlin: From a photo by Philip Pikart – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8433730

    Greek goddess

    In this week’s Drawing Faces class we drew a marble head of a Greek goddess from the 4th century BCE from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.

    Head of a Mesopotamian Ruler

    In yesterday’s Drawing Faces class we drew the Head of a Mesopotamian Ruler which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was cast in copper alloy around 2300-2000 BCE.