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Byzantine Iconography Series 3: Garment Basics (Drawing)
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Byzantine Iconography Series 3: Garment Basics (Drawing)

Laying the Foundations for Byzantine Iconography
Created byBridget Hayes
Last updated 10/2018
English

What you'll learn

  • Students will learn how to draw the basic folds that are used to create garments in Byzantine iconography and how line is used to create volume.

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Course content

3 sections • 12 lectures • 1h 3m total length

  • Basic Folds 1.1 (Introduction)4:05

    Study basic folds and drapery in Byzantine iconography, and learn how line, rhythm, and light create volume to project the figure and shape perspective.

  • Basic Folds 1.24:39

    Study basic garment folds and how fulcrums create dynamic lines that project toward the viewer. Compare fan-like and accordion folds, and vary drapery endings to avoid monotony.

  • Basic Folds 1.33:58

    Explore how increasingly complex faults create curved, martian forms in garment folds, with capes showing inner triangles that stretch horizontally or vertically while keeping proportion along the fault axis.

  • Basic Folds 1.45:00

    Study the works in iconography to get a feel for how they use line and rhythm, and apply these insights to your own work without copying old icons.

Requirements

  • Pencil and Paper.
  • It is recommended that students have already completed the Series 1 on Drawing the Face and Series 2 on Drawing the Half-Figure

Description

In this course we will be laying the foundation for drawing garments.

In the first section we will be learning to draw basic folds and progress from simple to more complex forms.

In the second section we will be looking at hanging folds and various ways that they are used in icons and will study some examples by master iconographers.

In the theirs section we will learn how to create volume with line and will study an icon from the Comnene Period to see how it is done.

In an upcoming series we will be studying the garments of various saints to put this into practice. 

Who this course is for:

  • This course is aimed at beginners with no experience in Byzantine Iconography or those who who have learned by tracing icons and would like to learn to draw them.

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