Naturalistic Animal Drawing with Graphite Pencil
Influences
A course by Amy Dover , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I will share some of my influences from the most expensive book in America to painting spiders and frogs in 17th century South America.”
In this video lesson Amy Dover addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Naturalistic Animal Drawing with Graphite Pencil. Learn to draw realistic creatures by exploring traditional and contemporary techniques to create detailed pencil sketches.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Influences In this lesson, I'll share some of my influences from 17th-century spider painting to the world's most expensive book. The first person I'd like to talk about is the formidable Maria Sibylla Merian. She was a 17th-century natural history illustrator. She did what women weren't allowed to do at the time. She travelled around Suriname documenting the flora, fauna, and particularly insects there. Before her documentation, it was often believed that butterflies were born out of dirt. She was the first person to paint the caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. This was an important ...”
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Course summary for: Naturalistic Animal Drawing with Graphite Pencil
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Areas
Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Amy Dover
A course by Amy Dover
Amy Dover is a UK-based artist and illustrator specializing in drawing our animal friends. She has worked as an artist for 14 years, has had her work exhibited internationally, and has collaborated with international animal charity organizations. Amy is a practice-based Ph.D. student at the School of Arts and Culture, Newcastle University, and has a master’s from Edinburgh College of Art. She also works as a senior academic at MIMA School of Art and Design at Teesside University.
Amy has recently been creating work on the human impact on endangered species and the sixth mass extinction, hoping to raise this as a critical concern. In addition to her activism and academia, she also works as a commercial illustrator in design, advertising, and publishing. Her clients include Target, Urban Outfitters, Redbull, The Royal Ballet, Barbour, Sperry Top-sider, Beels & Co, ThinkSpace, and many others.
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