Learning to Paint Drapery like Leonardo da Vinci
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- Опубліковано 2 січ 2020
- In this video I try to make a study of Leonardo da Vinci's Drapery study from the Louvre Museum.
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For this painting I used the following materials:
Oil colors(Ivory Black, Lead White, Hansa yellow deep), Linseed oil,
Brushes:
main blending brush is a cheap 7/8” no 8 round camel hair watercolor brush I literally found in the garbage but can be had from most art supply places.
Size 6 Kolinsky Sable fan brush
Size 0 white nylon liner
Size 4 Sable filbert
Linen, Acrylic gesso, 10x9” Plywood board, graphite transfer paper.
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Leonardo studied with the Florentine sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio and remained in his workshop after his apprenticeship for several more years. As might be expected, the pupil absorbed the master’s manner of drawing. Giorgio Vasari writes that Leonardo specifically copied from Verrocchio “heads of women, beautiful in expression and in the adornment of the hair.” In addition, Leonardo absorbed from the older artist a number of distinct drawing skills. During the 1470s, Leonardo learned from Verrocchio to make drapery studies on fine linen in brush and ink and gouache in order to reproduce the fall and flow of cloth around the human body. The most celebrated of them, Drapery Study for a Seated Figure (figure 3-1), was one of nineteen exhibited at the Louvre museum in 1989.
Paradoxically, Leonardo’s approach was anything but naturalistic. The cloth to be studied was first moistened in wet clay, then arranged around a clay mannequin, and stiffened. In reality, the drapery studies are essays in modeling, the use of chiaroscuro to build solid form-the realm of the sculptor. Instead of hatching lines, smooth gradations made possible by a soft brush separate light from dark. The grand masses in Drapery Study for a Seated Figure emerge from darkness, and like many of the other drapery studies seem to glow in moonlight. The eerie highlights give no clue about the texture of the material. Leonardo subsequently began writing a treatise on chiaroscuro and the mysteries of light, subjects that became a hallmark of his art.
[from Thomas Buser's textbook History of Drawing] - Фільми й анімація
Some of these comments are just silly; this type of work is incredibly important in the development of technique. It is easy to take paint and apply it on a canvas and pronounce it as practice. When you emulate the work of a painter such as da Vinci there is no hiding space; you have to observe, act and reflect. It is far more difficult to conduct this type of study than any other. Once you have learned this then you can move away into other technique. I am in awe of those who do practice this way - I lack both the physical and mental discipline, as well as the patience to do so. I have subscribed.
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Cher Gael J aimerais comprendre votre texte mieux, si vous pouviez le mettre en français je serais ravie et reconnaissante.
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One of the difficult techniques to be able to make drapery folds.
Master painter knows the result of how best to use dark and light shadows. Beautiful work thanks for teaching.♥️🎨
So today I’m waiting for a report to run and while I wait I spot on my bookshelf an old book of Da Vinci drawings and find myself looking at this exact same ‘drapery study’. Now hours later this pops up in my suggested videos.
A good example of the Paradox of our Existence.
maybe you were eating cookies while reading the book
There are still little household kobolds that help us by anticipating our needs and interests. Be kind to them. Trust me. Be kind to them.
This is amazing. The amount of patience and dedication and skills says a lot about you. Thank you for this treat of a video! 🥲❤️
Thank you Ellie Mandy:)
I can't believe channels like this exist. Thank you.
Outstanding! Beautiful work! Thank you for your demonstration. I have struggled with fabric for sometime and have often avoided it. Thank you!
I am a huge fan of yours-I love them all, but I particularly like your Velàzquez and Sargent videos. I have our students (Angel Academy of Art, Florence) watch them as further studies into what they are learning in class (a 3-year full-time professional-painting programme).
The way the masters learned was by making copies (in the very old days, they would copy their master's work, but by the 19th-century the students were learning by copying others' paintings in the art galleries). Once these skills were mastered, the students would then try their hand at applying to nature what they had learned by copying. This was a huge and difficult step forward, but would have been impossible without the year or more of copying. This is how Bouguereau, Leighton, Alma-Tadema, Bastian-Lepage, Sargent, et al. learned.
If you'll forgive a pedantic note, Leonardo's drapery studies from small draped wooden mannequins were done in egg tempera.
Who are you, by the way? I can't find any personal info on you!!!!
Thank you, how kind of you, Michael John Angel! I'm so encouraged to hear you like these videos and would even recommend them to the students at your renowned school.
I tried the egg tempera on linen but had to abandon it. Do you happen to know how one would prepare the surface? Thanks again!
@@olddirtymasters Hi! I actually have the answer to this! Modern gesso and traditional gesso use different binders (acrylic vs rabbit hide), and since egg tempera relies on a porous surface to adhere to, you need a primer that won't form that plastic film that modern gesso creates. You can find recipes for traditional gesso that use gypsum/plaster of paris and rabbit skin glue, which will be a much more suitable surface for egg tempera as well as water based media like watercolors or gouache!
Amazing brush work. Great demonstration
Thank you. Very useful, beautifully done and endlessly instructional.
So great artwork
Thanks for the closeups!
Lovely painting!!!! Very much patient you are!❤️
I'm a year late, but this just popped up on my youtube today. This is amazing. I subscribed. I don't understand the snarky comments. My mother is a artist and is trying to teach me and we both transfer images to canvass the same way. We don't even make our own canvasses, we buy them from the store.
Kimberly Austin, thank you for your nice comment and for subscribing:)
People make snarky comments because they're idiots. They hate to see anyone succeed when they themselves are failures.
I've been a painter for years and I too trace images to canvas. I use a projector though. As I commented on someone's post, it's acceptable in the art world to trace. Not everyone can free-hand a subject and get the proportions exact. Good for you for learning to paint!! I wish you and your mom a lot of success.
@@sandrajohnson2489 Thank you!😁❤I will show this comment to my mother, too. It will put a smile on her face.
@@kimberlyaustin6677 :D
Stunning!!!
Fabulous all comes together.....now in large
Saw the thumbnail, saw the title, and subbed before even watching. Thank you for existing.
Thanks! And thanks for subscribing:)
@@olddirtymasters oh no no no. Thank You.
A huge thank you!
Wow! Beautiful!!
That's amazing!!!
Muy interesante el paso a paso de la técnica del sfumato
Amazing!
Magnífico!
This is so damned good.
😮😮😮😮😮😮 qué bestiaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great job
Amazing
Thank you - great demo - have learned again!
I've watched several different people on here painting fabric and everyone does it differently. One artist and teacher advises to paint the dark areas first and to not blend anything until the end. Someone else advises not to paint on a white canvas. It can get confusing if you try to follow everyone's techniques.
It does . But you should just follow and do what works best for you , try those techniques and see for yourself :)
Wow I've learned so much. Could I pull this off with acrylic paint and a bunch of medium? Sure will try. I love how this comes alive, so beautiful
you could use drying retarders or GOLDEN slow dry acrylics. They will never be as good to use as oils and they will still dry too quick, however, you could totally achieve similar effects.
So it's basically just dry brush blending and then going back with the black details and some white highlights for dramatic contrasts.
Over An hour? This must have taken you over 4 hours to paint in real time!
This took more than 4 hours, try it.
La grisalla o mezcla es directa en la tela
fantastico
Wonderful work :)Could you list the brushes you use.thx
Thanks Leslie burke, going to add that to description.
"Wherefore, O Painter do not surround your bodies with lines, and above all when representing objects smaller than nature for not only will their external outlines become indistict but their parts will be invisible from distance" Leonardo's notebooks "H.Anna Suh" writing and art of the great master recommendet
How do you do the transfer? Thanks
Graphite transfer paper under printout. Here using 2H graphite pencil to transfer drawing and show you which lines you’ve done as you go.
Was that carbon paper you used to transfer the image ?
graphite transfer paper
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What is the size you cut the board to.? And where could I find that reference image?
About 9x10”
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@@olddirtymasters thank you. You're very talented and a delight to watch work. When I grow up I want to be able to paint that way and I'm 56
I say, the drawing methods should be left up to the individual's comfort level with many materials and devices available today. However, drawing from sight will train you to draw from imagination. The old masters had no choice, thus their work was technically superior.
Alguém que entenda bem o inglês para traduzir o texto sobre a maneira que Leonardo reproduziu as dobraduras? Ficaria imensamente grata...pq não estou conseguindo entender inteiramente...
O Vídeo não dá opção para ver legendas .
@@carlosvagner5721 há um texto abaixo e já traduzi. Obrigada!
Ese pincel amarillo es la envidia de los otros pinceles.
Maestro Leonardo Da Vinci used to paint drapery from real drapery he decorated in front of him and drew it with direct pencil on paper not taking a carbon paper and traced that!!
This is why he was a true artist!! The immortal legend!!🔥
Not everyone can draw a subject and get it proportionally correct. In the art world it's acceptable to trace an image. Da Vinci knew how to draw very well and was a master painter. Not everyone is a Da Vinci.
Da Vinci would’ve used whatever technology he had at hand. He was not conservative in his techniques, and was very open to improving the tools of his trade.
@@sandrajohnson2489 If one thinks of himself as an artist, knowing how to draw from life or 2D accurately is a must. Who doesn't know how to draw...should probably choose another profession.
@@oananoemi You don't know what you are talking about. No one has to know how to draw to be an artist. Lots of painters use other methods to sketch an image on paper, canvas, etc. other than free-handed drawing.
When I worked in theme parks and painted large murals, do you think I was allowed to get up there and sketch out the picture free-handed? Hell no. It had to be exact. Sometimes we created patterns of subjects, taped them to the wall and traced around them then painted them.
Sometimes if it was at night we used a projector. NO ONE climbed a ladder and started sketching away with a pencil.
He is undoubtedly a true master, however, he also used multiple 'cheat' methods and the technology available at hand. This included the camera obscure (aka projector), trained assistants, line grids etc. David Hockney has a whole book uncovering the secrets of the masters.
Today the students in Fine Arts has no vitality or be able or concentration in Drawing, just very fews have guts to strike back, against the absurd of Modern Art.
Academic way of teach Art of painting was destroyed. In present just one is capable to preserve the style from Old Masters. Art Renewal Center, through Angel Academy of Art in Florence in Italy, has the best teachers !
อ้า..พู่กันมาจากประเทศไทยหรือ คุณเป็นคนไทยใช่ไหม ฝีมือเยี่ยมมาก คุณเป็นจิตรกรที่มีชื่อเสียงในไทยหรือไม่ก็แล้วแต่ ทว่าคุณมีฝีมืออันน่าทึ่งจริงๆ
Oh I get it he is learning to paint like
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This is nothing about how Leo painted; it merely mimics his result- except he knew the intended uses of brush types.
It’s a huge help to the rest of us that appreciate the wealth of knowledge from others. Why so snobby?
That is the point of this type of practice.
This Artist is using this to help guide him. He doesn’t have to paint exactly like DaVinci to accomplish his own goal using his own technique. He’s done an amazing job. I think someone is too critical and arrogant.
Remember this:
“No one sits high enough to look down on anyone”. (Except God).
Do you have real time full length video and online courses. I'd like to watch the brain surgery in real time as opposed to fast forward. Thanks
Thanks, not at the moment but hoping to put something like that together in the future.
...be leonardo da vinci
It would be different if you weren't tracing the initial subject
You did this the easy way, by transferring the original to the canvas. I would have liked to see you doing it yourself. Can you?
Old Masters would draw on paper then transfer the final sketch to the canvas using this method . Im sure this guy can draw his ass off . Why bother drawing it on the canvas and get it all dirty when you can just transfer and begin painting . No one ! That doesnt know how to paint can do this even if The drawing is there for them . This is just a tool to start painting fast . I personally love to draw on paper but hate to draw on canvas
Da Vinci would’ve been confused by this comment. He would certainly have loved to use any technology to help him reach the result he had in mind. Showing off a skill that isn’t required anymore is just showing off. It is fun to learn that technique, though, and there are plenty of relevant videos that show how to draw from life.
This is a very uneducated comment. Davinci traced the mona lisa. This is how it’s done. You think people do their sketches on the canvas?
Je ne vois vraiment pas le Rapport avec Vinci. Lui, c'est l'art des transparence, de la finesse, des couches tellement fines qu'on ne peut les percevoir, des dégradés si subtils qu'aucune plage de couleur n'est discernable. Ici, il a 10 kg de peinture sur la toile et rien que le croquis de départ, genre décalquage à la truelle, laisse prévoir malheureusement le résultat final. Il fallait simplement appeler cette vidéo "N'est pas Vinci qui veut" et là la démonstration touchait à la maestria.
Should probably title it as just painting as opposed to learning.
Every painting is a learning experience.
Perhaps you have never done a master copy before because I find myself truly learning a great deal when I do it
I think you missed the point of the exercise, from the tracing on. Good effort.
Why? The whole point of a master copy is to try and emulate it as accurately as possible and learn during the process
@@StrawberryLegacy Agree, obviously the artist wanted to cut down some time, as it took about 9/10 days to complete. I have done similar myself, it is very time consuming and takes great patience, so cutting down a bit of time isn't a big thing.
put some music man! classical music or something
You are kidding, right? Davinci? Bullshit ! If you want to learn to truly master the art of painting fabric then study the work of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. He blows Davinci away!
Blows Davinci away? Do you even know who Davinci is? You’re delusional
my 12 years old students paint like that after 6 monts training......
So..?
It’s good you’re teaching such a technique to folks of such youth. I never had six month training when I was 12, and don’t know anyone who would have their kids do such a thing, but I imagine that kids would learn technique very quickly - much as the way that children can pick up languages. Painting fabric is an easy but really useful skill, covering the matter of values as they respond to light differently based on the qualities of the fabric, the possibilities of color as responsive to multiple light sources, basic fundamentals of blending colors in whatever medium, with careful attention to the value curves which can either convey the proper sense of the texture when done right, or cause it to be seen as something not intended when done without skillful scrutiny. As a fundamental, fabric has the advantage of concentrating the student’s attention on those things, without the danger of causing obvious failures when proportions and shapes aren’t well observed - so much so that after a bit of practice, one can trust one’s imagination to provide a decent representation of common fabrics when called upon, making this sort of exercise invaluable for the young artist. Many of the techniques learned in such studies will translate easily to other materials, and the careful observation of values and color modulation is at least as important as any other technique in the field of naturalistic depictions of observed subjects. So it’s good that you’re teaching this critical skill to people so young. I just worry that, at such an age, they are so impressionable that your personality struggles might become theirs as well. Such is the downfall of too many earnest, aspiring artists, and often has the result of creating a series of challenges of the sort that might lead them to become a teacher of 12 year olds - not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I suspect it isn’t the dream that most 12 year olds have in mind when they commit to a six month intensive course. Thank goodness that some do have that dream, though! It’s important work, and at least as consequential as the work of most artists!
Yeah. And what is what you want to contribute? ... just an other annoying comment? Simply accept this video as a very helpful one for people who like to learn painting.