I discovered Lane Brown by the two presentation [part 1, part 2]
by Kenzo Fry from the excellent Love-Life-Drawing web site.
Lane Brown uses charcoals.
I was very impressioned, I studied his style and try to reproduce some of its drawings.
Photographies of the original work by Lane Brown
can be founded in [L1, L2, L3, L4 ],
also archived as [A1, A2, A3, A4 ].
I started to study charcoal at l'ESAD with a still-life:
I then turn to a portrait:
The model is Alice from Croquis Cafe:
I worked from a video capture from the week 459,
at 11'45'' of the video (8th pose).
Unfortunately, the access videos became later non more free.
I started to study charcoal portraits
with the head of the Aphrodite of Cnide , known as head Kaufmann:
I observed the original sculpture in the Louvre museum in Paris
and then worked with charcoals from a reference photography.
I then turned to morphology, with the Écorché de Houdon,
which is conserved at Villa Médicis, in the French academy in Rome.
I founded references in volume 15 of the excellent encyclopedia
Peindre et dessiner edited by Larousse in 1995:
it just got an used version of the complete collection, with 120 volumes
and 30 videos for 50 euros.
Finally, I got a a 3D printing of it in resin of about 40cm high.
Here is the result:
I used sanguine and some color pastel pencils.
I then switched to the Vénus de Milo,
that I also observed in the Louvre museum in Paris.
Finally, I drew the David by Micheangelo
which is exposed in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence
while a copy is still in the street, in front of the palazzo Vecchio.
I founded a free 3D computer's model of it in
the amazing wikimedia project.
Drawing like Lane Brown
