tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post4791232581817948447..comments2024-03-28T06:18:17.942-04:00Comments on Gurney Journey: High StrikerJames Gurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-34930567802517195162016-08-05T20:26:40.635-04:002016-08-05T20:26:40.635-04:00James, this sketch is one of the reasons I check y...James, this sketch is one of the reasons I check your posts every day. It's marvelous. Thank you.Bughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05275998847068488401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-40197734215290760972016-08-05T17:38:48.563-04:002016-08-05T17:38:48.563-04:00Another great sketch :)
I'm curious, I don'...Another great sketch :)<br />I'm curious, I don't recall if you mentioned it already James, did you do specific calligraphy exercises (like those long, boring pages of a single letter) or just went ahead and tried getting it as close as possible when copying texts from life?Fabiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17178447427477151830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-64759296788486674832016-08-05T17:23:50.976-04:002016-08-05T17:23:50.976-04:00A single pencil at hand? Surely sufficed for a dra...A single pencil at hand? Surely sufficed for a draftsman like yours truly to achieve a convincing result like this one here. Besides, your typographical expertise shows as well, rendering and bringing home the multiple signs and letterings encountered at a parish fair;-)<br /><br />"...so I can't capture the noise, the motion, or the color of the midway at the county fair", you write;...<br />with a few speed lines and some blurring you would have added the motion, I guess, no problem for you; neither the color - you would have easily captured it with your gouache-set at hand.<br /><br />But the noise?Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14233420155151875249noreply@blogger.com