Lesson 6 |  Drawing from Rembrandt

Hello and happy sketching.

We are in the second rule of the line bundles, multiple lines. And I have here a sketch by Rembrandt. You are asked to draw figures like Rembrandt, I made a collection on the Rijksstudio studio. You have to link further down on the website.

And I ask you to draw lines that are going to be in bundles as we have with them here. So here in the head, we have many lines, or here we have many lines, and so on and so forth. We have a lot of lines here to make the shadow, but they are fluttering, crossing, and going in bundles everywhere. And there you can see it in the head, in the hat, and here in the eye as well.

I already sketched it here, so that’s not so long for you. And you see accuracy, that’s still not what it should be. So this has to do, because we do not measure, and we do not work really properly with measuring lengths and directions.

What I’m asking you to do is you are working with your device next to you and you are going to copy because you can learn a lot of the lines. So by the way, I work with the crayon here and you can really do a lot by copying details, but not too accurately because I really ask you to work rapidly, fastly, because you can’t copy all the stuff in detail because you’re not a slave. Do all the lines the same, whatever they are, if they are part of the face or whatever, just work on with stroke bundles. Try to find the right form. Here we have a lot of … I have to put it a little bit more in this direction so you can see it better … Here on the shoulder, you have many lines. Try to work it out and try make to copy freely all these different lines with more than one line, just to learn that there is no fault line. Every line has its information and the more information you have, the freer you are in your drawing.

And actually drawing is all about getting into the flow. So learning how you can trigger your creativity and work on this. Okay, this is it. Try it out. Enjoy it.