tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post4081459383318884477..comments2023-09-30T08:53:15.486-07:00Comments on Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog: Details, Detailslowenkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05198658136254028258noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post-30461250544425743872008-02-12T15:19:00.000-08:002008-02-12T15:19:00.000-08:00Lots of great stuff to think about in these. Truly...Lots of great stuff to think about in these. Truly gawd is in the details.<BR/><BR/>;-)<BR/><BR/>Regarding number 7 -- one of the cool take-aways from learning to draw is how "detail" is all about the relationship of mark to mark, thing to thing, ratio to ratio -- and ultimately of viewer to viewed and point-of-view. Relationship and detail, hand in hand.<BR/><BR/>Now for fun, go look at some drawings by Ingres, and reconcile what you see with anatomical accuracy. His portraits look "accurate" at first, but they are wildly "inaccurate." <BR/><BR/>However, by moving the scapula here, the zygomatic arch there, Ingres evokes a person and their world elegantly and coolly in ways that mere photographic rendering would not. View cameras and their adjustable bellows can crudely approximate the same thing, but oh what a master like Ingres can do...Lori Witzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04744273435691506484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post-5771988146197397852008-02-11T20:38:00.000-08:002008-02-11T20:38:00.000-08:00The details are so very important in describing ch...The details are so very important in describing characters and setting, but they have to be placed carefully so as not to overwhelm the story. I have no trouble with these things.<BR/><BR/>Continuity on the other hand, well, I tend to have to watch my details very carefully when I go back and revise.Square1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13559171378908608414noreply@blogger.com