Because I have a massive boner for archaeology, I decided to shift from medical illustrations to archaeological drawings as the basis for this work. I sat on the floor in the university general library for two hours looking for books of theory/illustration and eventually came away with a stack of books full of the most aweome shit ever.
The first drawing is based off an field drawing of an infant skeleton found in Aude, France. Size A0, 8B pencil with gilded background. The second image shows the set-up I used for presentation. I made everything, including the wee nameplate (text photoetched into a steel plate with forced corrosion from spray fixative).
[I apologise for the iffy quality of the photos - i took them while the drawing was set up on the floor and it was near impossible to get a good angle and clear image together]
This second set of images are of a large (A0) watercolour drawing.
One of the books I found in the library was a case study of a proto-neolithic cemetary found in the Zagros Mountains of Iraq called Shanidar Cave. It had descriptions of varying detail of each of the 26 graves found within the cave (without images), and I decided to try and depict each grave as I understood it from the descriptions, inspired by the work of Isodor Engel. Time constraints and the (sometimes very) limited amount of information I had on each grave were responsible for the vague, cartoony style of the skeletons. I had also never used watercolour before this, and it took a lot of getting used to.
Details:
There are a couple more works for me to post, I just have to get around to photographing them properly. With any luck I should be able to update within the week.
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