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JeremyOsborne — Venetian Mask
Published: 2011-11-01 21:54:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 1192; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 0
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This is a drawing of a Venetian I saw, changed around the colors a little bit. Made the background cloth myself, always love the mystery and beauty in those masks. Just simply stunning.Made with colored pencils.
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Metal rendering is something I greatly admire though can't seem to get my head around where color is concerned so this is a great example to learn from. 
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Thanks! I always loved those masks, hard to find good references for them though.
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wow this is really well done! the colors on the mask, the cloth folds, everything is executed very well. my one criticism if you will is that the mask seems to be hovering above the cloth, not sitting on it. in other words there arent enough shadows where the mask would be touching the cloth, especially in the eye holes and on the lower right side of the mask where its shaded along the jawline. also the folds seem to continue behind it without interruption. i dont know if i'm explaining it properly, but even the light weight of a mask like that would cause rumpled cloth to sink down at the points of contact.
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You are completely correct, I made the cloth background up, and when doing so did not include needed ripple marks because I did not know where they would be. I could still add them in but again since I do not know where they would go it might look even worse than it is right now. Might try to improve it though, who knows...
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no doubt drapery is a challenge to render realistically, especially from imagination and especially in color. in this case you would need to imagine where the cloth and the mask would make contact and 'see' in your mind how it would look and then try to draw it and that takes much practice. you could also make a small still life with some cloth (like a sheet, pillowcase etc etc) , arrange it in a way similar to how your picture will be and place an object similar to the mask on it and study the folds and shadows and work from it like that. it neednt be slavishly copied but it can give you a starting point. i have done that a few times with different pictures, even took photos so i could refer back to it without leaving it set up. in the victorian era artists like Fredrick Leighton and Albert Moore did intensive drapery studies in preperation for their paintings and they in of themselves are amazing works of art. i wouldnt mess with your picture, its very good and i too would be afraid to ruin things. its just something to be kept in mind for the next time, its always a learning process but that's a huge amount of the fun of it all to me
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