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 Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject: Renaissance Style Drawing (Sanguine) -- A Tutorial |
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I posted this at TSOFA (Mentler's board), but I realize that some of you may not read that board, so I am posting it here as well.
If you have read books on Renaissance-era drawing, you may have noticed the media listed as sanguine.
Sanguine is a natural mineral, hematite, or basically a rusty rock.
They didn't have Conté crayons or pastel pencils in the 1500s, so this is what they used. I bought mine from Kremer Pigments in New York.
http://www.sinopia.com/kremer.html
Real sanguine has some different properties than the fabricated chalks that we are used to, which I will try to explore a bit.
When you open the box from Kremer, inside is a plastic bag full of various chunks of reddish rocks.
You can pick up a hunk, and start scribbling away, or you can use a knife to shape the rocks into a point.
Save the dust!! (I will get to that later.)
Use sandpaper to further refine the point. You can also make interesting marks by using a broad edge.
For even finer control, use a metal charcoal holder for one of the smaller pieces. I got my holder from the Utrecht store.
An assortment of pens and nibs. One of the interesting properties of sanguine, is that if you add a little water to the dust, it becomes a red "ink" which you can apply with a brush or pen. Unlike normal ink, the sanguine ink, after it is dry, still retains a certain degree of friability. That is, you can still smudge it, like a dry medium.
Using a chunk to rough out the drawing.
Fine hatching using a small piece in the metal holder.
Making "ink" out of dust and water. I tried this with Conté, but it doesn't work as well, because the fabricated chalk has a gummy binder which holds the stick together. The binder doesn't allow Conté to dissolve as well.
Applying super-fine detail with a pen and sanguine "ink".
Using a brush to smooth out and blend the dried "ink".
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crazi_ivan
Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Total posts: 45 Location: Vancouver Gender: Male |
| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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awesome! thank you!
evan
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felixthecat
Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Total posts: 1124 Location: Mississuaga, Ontario Age: 25 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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wow!
thanks for the tut!
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Blacklight
Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Total posts: 45 Location: Ohio Age: 37 Gender: Female |
| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| How cool, I've never heard of sanguine. Thank you!
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spratman
Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Total posts: 397 Location: Philadelphia, PA USA Age: 46 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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wow, talk about dedication to your art.
I do miss the smell of india ink and the pull of a brush on canvas, but I just don't have the time to draw and set -up, break down a paint set and stuff. sigh... such is the price of yer choices in life.
Nice tut tho,' love to see the old school stuff come up and poke it's head around once awhile.
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4ntimatter
Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Total posts: 241 Location: Dublin, Ireland Age: 30 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| spratman wrote: |
wow, talk about dedication to your art.
I do miss the smell of india ink and the pull of a brush on canvas, but I just don't have the time to draw and set -up, break down a paint set and stuff. sigh... such is the price of yer choices in life.
Nice tut tho,' love to see the old school stuff come up and poke it's head around once awhile. |
Man do I know that feeling mate.
Great tutorial btw, and It looks awesome.
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| MoosewithAneyePatch Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Total posts: 23 Location: Northern Minn Gender: Male |
| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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this is simply amazing, im really going to have to try this now, thats a lot like i dont have enough on my plate with drawing, and airbrushing now you have to get me all excited about this to hahahaha, just playing, but it really does look great
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| classicalanimator Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Total posts: 1 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:19 am Post subject: Re: Renaissance Style Drawing (Sanguine) -- A Tutorial |
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| i cant' see the images please send me the images at my email id rahul4u1985@gmail.com
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Thick_Troll
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:44 am Post subject: |
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| The images are offline dude, shame, sounds interesting.
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