X-Ray of Head
Drawing Pencil on Drawing Paper
30.5 cm x 40 cm
As another addition to the other pencil drawings including Zombification and Jawbone, this piece is inspired by Da Vinci and his series of human anatomy sketches. Instead of the thought of decay in the works, I instead focused on the complexity of humans. Not as in the emotional side, but the physical side of humans. Also it makes us think about what does go on inside of us humans. All the complexity that happens inside of each and every person is staggering and suppose each of us had a world of our in our heads all on a giant complex earth.
I did not know where to turn for this next work, so I started sketching. While doing so, I wanted to go back to Junior and use the theme of complexity in humans. So I wanted to make perhaps a simplistic drawing for my last work, but also have that complex idea behind it. I would use da Vinci's anatomy sketches as an inspiration again, and focus on only anatomy. I drew a kidney shaped form, and used line to help shade this in. The next sketch next that used line to show the negative space in the brain. It did not come out too well, and was not a successful sketch, but it gave a gist as to what I may do for the final work. The half brain sketch also shows the shading towards the middle of the brain to give it an X ray look, but again, this did not come out too well in the sketch itself.
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For the next sketch, I wanted to make a visual representation of an eye. However this eye will not be an anatomically correct eye, it will be an eye that I create from my imagination. I started to develop the eye on the page and realized that I should pay attention to detail, just like da Vinci. This lead me to create more emphasis on the veins of the eye, as well as the optic nerve muscles. I also made the eyeball itself dirty, which shows that the person who had this eye was ill. I thought that this fitted da Vinci's style well because I learned in the past that da Vinci drew sketches of the deceased that either died from illness or age. So this was a success to me here. I then thought that I should probably look at the anatomy of a real eye, and maybe compare the two drawings I make.
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For the last sketch, I did indeed look at a real eye, and started to draw. So after I drew the correct anatomy of an eye, I compared it to my previous eye, and saw that the two are similar in a couple was. First, the nerve that connects the eye to the brain in both looks very similar, and that there is muscle that connects to the eye in order to move. However, the only difference is that there is more space in the real eye than my eye. In the one I drew from my mind does not have much space in between the muscles at all. I then looked at da Vinci's sketch, and saw that his sketches were not always true to the real thing. In the sketch below, he most likely used his intuition to sketch parts of the brain that he did not exactly know. For the final work, I will most likely used both eyes and brain to make a final product and have it communicate the complexity in humans.
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