Planar Rendering of Complex Forms chapter 9
Stage 2
At this stage, the artist continued to draw the different objects, while striving for precision in the shape of each element. The
palm is extremely graceful and elegant, and so it’s important that the proportions and gesture of the palm be correct; other-
wise, those qualities won’t be conveyed well. Capturing the gesture is really nothing more than recording the overall shape of
each frond accurately, and then the curve of the stem as it comes off the frond. The artist also started to indicate some of the
various planes within the frond. With the deer skull, the artist established the big forms as accurately as possible. This made
“finding” the small shapes much easier as the drawing progressed.
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