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Chock · 13 October 2009, 11:54 AM

Well, true, but the grid is essentially the same as doing the cliche artist 'hold up your brush with your thumb on it with one eye shut' to measure distances and angles between points, so it's really an extension of that technique.

If you look on that scribbled Nieuport picture I posted a couple of pages back, you can see that I've done that with faint lines between points to work out angles and symmetry, it's a very common thing to do when sketching.

I guess the point is really that Ivan is clearly a pretty good painter whatever anyone thinks, and that being the case, I'm sure he could knock stuff up that didn't draw quite so heavily on things other people had done, since I'm also sure he has a thumb, and a paintbrush. Add a couple of scale models and the world's your clam.

Al

13 October 2009, 11:54 AM	#54 (permalink)
Chock Scout Pilot Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The grim north of England Posts: 405	Well, true, but the grid is essentially the same as doing the cliche artist 'hold up your brush with your thumb on it with one eye shut' to measure distances and angles between points, so it's really an extension of that technique. If you look on that scribbled Nieuport picture I posted a couple of pages back, you can see that I've done that with faint lines between points to work out angles and symmetry, it's a very common thing to do when sketching. I guess the point is really that Ivan is clearly a pretty good painter whatever anyone thinks, and that being the case, I'm sure he could knock stuff up that didn't draw quite so heavily on things other people had done, since I'm also sure he has a thumb, and a paintbrush. Add a couple of scale models and the world's your clam. Al __________________ Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words? Ash: Yeah, basically. Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words? Ash: Look, maybe I didn't say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah. Last edited by Chock; 13 October 2009 at 12:14 PM.