Realism, Inspired Drawing, Sketchbook

TIGRE ROYAL FURIEUX

Date Unknown

Rosa Bonheur

  

Dragan Gilic

  

Veronica Handy

Purpose: To gain a basic understanding about the Realism Art Movement and to identify Artists who work(ed) in this style.

While working on this assignment, I learned how to grid a drawing off inch by inch to make the drawing part of the project easier. It also helped me by showing proportions and the different sizes of things in the original drawing. This assignment also showed me how to shade using color and different drawing techniques. I learned how to layer colors on top of each other using colored pencil to create different values and shades.

This painting is similar to the realism painting because they are both very realistic. The paintings both portray the two different kinds of animals as they naturally are. The tigers are roaring and growling, naturally being protective. The elk is standing still, in a forest, naturally looking calm. These paintings are different from each other because the contemporary piece is a lot more colorful and more detailed than the realism piece. The realism painting has more of just a plain color behind the tigers, and hardly has a background while the background behind the elk is very real and distinctive. I prefer the contemporary drawing to the realism painting because I find the colors in the contemporary drawing to be much more attractive, bright and it has more of a contrast between lightness and darkness. I think that the realism painting has more blunt and boring colors that don’t attract your eye to them as much.