Christoph Niemann Drawing around every day objects

 Christoph is an Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Author

Some of his work involves placing very economical but descriptive around everyday objects to create images or illustrations

Animal Lino Prints - Examples and Source Photographs

 

Three colours and white -  Y9 Lino Prints

Masks from Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Tanzania and The Republic of Congo

 

Benin Ivory Mask 25cm high.

17th Century carved mask from Benin Kingdom ( now part of Nigeria)

Doei female ancestor mask, Tanzania

Animal styled masks Burkina Faso 19th Century

Animal styled masks Burkina Faso 

Dan people of Ghana mask made by Emmanuel Opoku Asante

Fang Mask, Gabon

Ram Mask -  Gabon or Republic of Congo 19th or 20th Century

Carved Wood and white beads mask from Ghana

mask from the Punu people of Gabon in West Africa

Ngil society in Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea

Fang Mask Ngil Society Gabon

Dean Gle Mask made by Dan People of Liberia

Von Gla Mask made by Dan People of Liberia

Carved Wood Mask, N'tomo Mask made by Bambara people of West Africa 

made during 18th Century

 

Drawing a vew from a window

 Drawings are flat versions of a three dimensional world.

There are three main ways you can make things look far away or close to you in your landscape drawing

1. Make things that are farther away pale using light marks and shading

2. Draw things that are father away smaller

3. Use big drawing marks on things closest to you and small  marks farther away

Landscape Drawing Vincent Van Gogh

The buildings on the left get smaller so the ones higher up the page look farthest away

The marks or texture used to create the path next to the building get lighter and smaller as they go awau from you

Landscape Drawing Vincent Van Gogh

The marks that show the cut grass or crops at the bottom of the drawing are bigger than the marks used for the distant buildings and sky

Use the window frame as an edge of your drawing

Drawing by Lancelot Richardson

Straight on is easiest so that the frame follows the edge of the page

Austen Pinkerton

You can draw the window at an angle to you, this is much harder to do when working from observation but will make a more interesting drawing

Look at all the different marks used on the Austen Pinkerton drawing

Andrew Wyeth

No window frame, but look how dark and light shading and tones have been used the show buildings that are close to you and buildings that are far apart