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A sketch of a rearing horse and rider over a fallen and shielded man. Notice Leonard's use of cross hatching to show depth and drawing the figures multiple times and in multiple positions to help decide on the composition. Essentially drawing the same thing in multiple instances of movement, in this instance the horse rearing and the man shielding himself. These sketches could then be used to figure out which position looked best for the final drawing.
Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
Leonardo da Vinci
Allegorical sketch showing three figures, one winged, with flowing hair. The details show some areas have been scratched out but not inked.
c.1467-1519
Random cut outs of Leonardo’s drawings. They look like they are telling a story when put together like this. Like a comic book from 500 years ago.
“Looking for a translation of the text in this image.”
*This was a submission but I thought I would post this for those looking to translate/ read Leonardo’s original handwriting. Keep in mind you will have to mirror it first.
Text Generator - This link lets you type text in and see it displayed as Leonardo would have written it.
Google Translate (Enter Itallian - then it will convert to english)
Examples of Leonardo’s notebooks. These show various geometric designs, shapes, faces, figures, and even some internal human anatomy. Many of his notebooks attempt to explore the interconnectivity between different subjects.
According to the British Library an erased sketch found in Leonardo's notebooks is purported to be of Michaelangelo's statue of David and said to be "erased out of jealousy" (of the statue.) Which is interesting because this drawing is in a different pose, more muscular and there is another sketch of the statue which Leonardo did not erase else where in his notebooks. Although it is interesting that he erased it because that was not something he did often, and wasn't as easy to do with the materials he used. For practice and to save paper he used and advised a chalk board like tablet that could be "wiped clean" - which is unfortunate for us because its likely he drew thousands of things we will never be able to see, not to mention the pages of actual paper drawings that were lost or destroyed. http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Arts/article1657647.ece
A Leonardo sketch of the veins of the arm next to notes about anatomy.
A collection of Leonardo’s notebooks from the British Library. They were originally not bound or in this order but after 500 years and changing hands their current possessors (including Bill Gates) had to organize what they had and are now called Codex ____ usually where they are kept. You can view the different Codexes/ Leonardo’s notebooks that i’ve collected so far by going: here discoveringdavinci.com/codex/
Leonardo da Vinci, Codex Leicester, Sheet 14A: folios 23v & 14r, 1508–10, ink on paper, 11 2/3 x 17 in., courtesy of Bill Gates © 1994
#drawing #sketches #davinci #vinci #Leonardo #leonardodavinci Sketch of a man in profile done in red chalk. C.1481-1499 | Drawn on paper 101mm x 73mm
Inspiration, Planning, Painting, Completion, Degradation, Restoration, Evolution
Men are in error when they lament the flight of time, accusing it of being too swift, and not perceiving that it is sufficient as it passes; but good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes things long past to seem present.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Leo’s artwork as seen via Google’s Deep Dream - an artificial neural network that shows what it thinks it sees. Coincidentally Leonardo wrote about the same thing over 500 years ago but being applied to human vision. He said that if you look at a wall/ image your imagination will notice things that look like other things and these can be used to inspire you to create something new. Similar to seeing things in clouds - but these do not move.
“Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene, you can see there resemblances to a number of landscapes, adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, great plains, valleys and hills, in various ways. Also you can see various battles, and lively postures of strange figures, expressions on faces, costumes and an infinite number of things, which you can reduce to good integrated form. This happens on such walls and varicoloured stones, (which act) like the sound of bells, in whose peeling you can find every name and word that you can imagine.
Do not despise my opinion, when I remind you that it should not hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or the ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you consider them well, you may find really marvelous ideas.
The mind of the painter is stimulated to new discoveries, the composition of battles of animals and men, various compositions of landscapes and monstrous things, such as devils and similar things, which may bring you honor, because by indistinct things the mind is stimulated to new inventions.”
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci