These two, copied out of my nature journal, are fairly simple drawings with an obvious geometric basis. Both have what biologists call bilateral symmetry and geometry folks might call mirror symmetry. The way some art teachers express the goal of starting with geometry and ending with free-hand is to be able to "see" the image on the paper before you draw it
. I would guess excellent sculptors would possess the 3-D equivalent of this skill. On that note, there's a story - maybe true and maybe not - when an admirer asked Michelangelo how he managed to carve such a magnificent figure as David, he replied, "Simple. You just carve away all the parts of the stone that are not David."
These two, copied out of my nature journal, are fairly simple drawings with an obvious geometric basis. Both have what biologists call bilateral symmetry and geometry folks might call mirror symmetry. The way some art teachers express the goal of starting with geometry and ending with free-hand is to be able to "see" the image on the paper before you draw it. I would guess excellent sculptors would possess the 3-D equivalent of this skill. On that note, there's a story - maybe true and maybe not - when an admirer asked Michelangelo how he managed to carve such a magnificent figure as David, he replied, "Simple. You just carve away all the parts of the stone that are not David."
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