Taking a break from drawing elephants. Drawing rhinoceroses instead.
These are all the pens I used up in one week. Taking a break from drawing elephants. I am planning to draw another pachyderm herd but right now I am drawing a rhinoceros. I plan to draw the black, white and Indian rhinoceroses. Albrecht Durer must had fun drawing his Indian rhinoceros. He also made a woodcut, both of the images were based on a written description of a rhinoceros because he never really saw a live specimen. Durer's drawing and woodcut were the basis of so many misrepresentations of the rhinoceros in several masters' paintings for three centuries. How inaccuracies spread, it happened then, it happens now :)
From Wikipedia: "Dürer's Rhinoceros is the name commonly given to a woodcut executed by German painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer in 1515.[1] The image was based on a written description and brief sketch by an unknown artist of an Indian rhinoceros that had arrived in Lisbon earlier that year. Dürer never saw the actual rhinoceros, which was the first living example seen in Europe since Roman times. In late 1515, the King of Portugal, Manuel I, sent the animal as a gift for Pope Leo X,
but it died in a shipwreck off the coast of Italy in early 1516. A live
rhinoceros was not seen again in Europe until a second specimen, named Abada, arrived from India at the court of Sebastian of Portugal in 1577, being later inherited by Philip II of Spain around 1580.[2][3]
Dürer's woodcut is not an entirely accurate representation of a
rhinoceros. He depicts an animal with hard plates that cover its body
like sheets of armour, with a gorget at the throat, a solid-looking breastplate, and rivets
along the seams; he also places a small twisted horn on its back, and
gives it scaly legs and saw-like rear quarters. None of these features
is present in a real rhinoceros.[4][5]
Despite its anatomical inaccuracies, Dürer's woodcut became very
popular in Europe and was copied many times in the following three
centuries. It was regarded by Westerners as a true representation of a
rhinoceros into the late 18th century. Eventually, it was supplanted by
more realistic drawings and paintings, particularly those of Clara the rhinoceros,
who toured Europe in the 1740s and 1750s. It has been said of Dürer's
woodcut: "probably no animal picture has exerted such a profound
influence on the arts".[6]" Read the full article here.
Aaah! Sunday chores...
Aaah! Sunday chores...
