I'm going to make a drawing of an ear, my name is Peter and on my channel
I present tutorials about art
So let's make a drawing of an ear
I start with the outlines
and I have a photographic reference, by the way
I'm not doing this out of my head, but
with an example
And I find the form of an ear quite complicated
there is this line
when I have finished this outline, I will
go into the seperate names of what you see here
so first I am sketching more or less loosely
and now I accentuate certain things
at a certain moment you get a little more grip on what you are actually drawing
so now the ear is more or less outlined
and sometimes you see me sketch lines, and sometimes you see me place these
should I say short hatchings?
it's a sort of line, in the middle of a line or a tonal value actually
and
each ear is different in shape
here an indication of the shadow
and... this part is called the lobe
this part is called the antitragus
I'm Dutch, so...
I'm not exactly sure how I should pronounce antitragus
here the tragus
this is called the helix
this line here
and this is called the antihelix
so, it's good the search them for yourself
if you google 'outer ear anatomy'
you can find those, and it's good to take a look at such scheme's with names
so you get to know what the construction of the ear is more or less
I will continue with my drawing now
to be honest, I don't really know how all these parts are named
I just looked it up in a scheme on Google myself
but it's good to know how these lines more or less
are formed
because you get easily confused with these, especially how this is
so... I really have to watch my
my reference photograph to get that right
so if you studied it, the anatomy, and you know
from memory how that goes... you're better than I am
because I don't really know how that is
I'm not really good at anatomy, but... anyway
painters like Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci were really great at anatomy
when you look at those works
you really see that they have a grasp of how the human body is formed
how the muscles are
and when you look at someone like Vermeer, or Rembrandt
you see that they are less interested in anatomy
Vermeer doesn't really seem to know much about it, I think
he seems to have other interests than anatomic
you know... ehm... correctness
when you look for example at the hand of the painter at 'the art of painting'
that's some sort of strange claw
he tended to stylize his paintings in a certain way
someone like Michelangelo, I think, would never
accept such a claw in his work
I cannot imagine, I mean
you know, when you have a sense of anatomy
that hand must be so and so...
but Vermeer's attitude was different
he was more interested in a sort of geometry almost
in how he built up his works and
Rembrandt is a different case but
Everything which you could
see in a sort of accuracy in something
if you think about an accurate use of perspective, or
or an accurate use of anatomy, or an accurate use of lighting
you do not find that in Rembrandt's work, he did nothing accurate
and so he didn't really study anatomy, I think
as other painters did
but he was one of the greatest in depicting the human figure
I mean, when you look at his Adam and Eve etching
you really see fat tissue, and the untrained body of Adam
Rembrandt was very interested in the appearance of humans, you know, people
but the exact anatomy
being very exact in that... he probably
argued that that stood in the way or something
I think so, in that vein
being too much invested in learning anatomy
it has its downsides, if you want to
learn to draw for example
a superheroes comic
then you have to learn a lot about anatomy
because you have to show convincingly the muscled bodies of those superhuman heroes
and... so you need it for that
but when you look at certain paintings
by Vermeer you see a totally different focus... and Rembrandt too
so it all depends on what kind of paintings you like to make
and what's important in those
but... when I am drawing an ear I try to get it right
so I am carefully looking at the source photograph
at the same time I try to remember for future
situations a little bit about the anatomy of that ear
now I want to work on the definition of this here
I find it not really defined enough
I am using an HB pencil, a mechanical pencil, by the way
now I am looking at the tonal values, because this area is lightest
on my source photograph, along with this area
this is by the way my source photograph, if you want to see
and now I am going to work on the lower part
and I am going to finish this drawing now, soon
going to make the area around the ear a little bit, slightly darker
so it's not really isolated on a white paper
and I have to do this to give it a little bit of roundness
and there are some hairs
maybe I can...
add some, for a suggestion of her hair... it was a female model
anyway...
an ear... it's a quick sketch... but, you get the idea
