Kane’s Trilobite Drawings

[Scylla]

On 5/25/2019 at 10:09 PM, Kane said:

Sadly, there is absolutely no way I can take a picture of a drawing on black paper without parts of it washing out from light or being suffused with noise in shadow. I've included a closeup of the detail to indicate what is really going on, colour-wise. 

   

 

Thanks to @Scylla and @Fossildude19 for the suggestion to take on the gold bugs.  

My new favorite! You really captured the look of it.

[Kane]

“I see you...”

 

Materials: pencil (H, HB, 6B)

Time: 8 hours

[Kane]

Materials: Pencil (H, HB, 6B), standard white paper.

Time: Likely longer than it would have taken to prep a real one with a dull pen knife. 

 

I'm going to take a breather before tackling the Walliserops. This one took a lot out of me. 

[Kane]

Pencils (H, HB)

[DPS Ammonite]

Amazing art Kane.  What do you use as models, your own pieces?

[Kane]

7 hours ago, DPS Ammonite said:

Amazing art Kane.  What do you use as models, your own pieces?

Thank you. It's a mix from a variety of sources: my own specimens, other people's, or images I encounter. Some I composite from multiple sources. 

[Kane]

Isotelus. 

Materials: Pencils (H, HB, a lot of 6B), standard white paper.

Time: 7 hours

 

A simple body plan, but a lot of the time was spent layering, burnishing, re-layering. 

 

Here's hoping that by this time next week those of us going to Bowmanville will find real ones of these. 

[Fossildude19]

Wow, K-man. 

 

Stunner!  

 

Good luck with your hunt - you are due for one or six.  

[Kane]

Thanks, Tim.  Maybe if I draw them, they will come?  

[ynot]

Have not been keeping up with this subforum since january and boy did I miss a lot.

Those drawings are stunning Kane!

Well done indeed!

[Kane]

I’ve made several attempts to draw a Walliserops, but none have come close to my standards and expectations. The problem is getting the detail right, which is challenging when the body has to be small enough to accommodate the long fork. Unless I can work on an enormous canvass, or acquire pencils that have tips at the micron level, a lot of the spiny detail is lost and tends to blur together. So, it’s back to some quick study sketches until I can get this one right.

[Bobby Rico]

Your drawing are really stunning Kane almost like the photorealist works. Have you thought about going large scale? 

On 6/2/2019 at 8:57 PM, Kane said:

Isotelus. 

Materials: Pencils (H, HB, a lot of 6B), standard white paper.

This is my favourite,  

[Kane]

58 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

Your drawing are really stunning Kane almost like the photorealist works. Have you thought about going large scale? 

This is my favourite,  

Thanks, Bobby! I just might try a bigger work I can hang in the house. That recent one of the Isotelus is my second favourite... My favourite is always the one I’ll do next. 

[Kane]

This weekend is a dreary, rainy one, so I decided to draw @Ludwigia's Forum famous Kermit. I hope it is faithful to its original!

 

Time: 12 hours

Materials: Pencils (H, HB), blending stump.

 

The first task was to get the proportions from the photo just right so that I could pencil it onto the paper. For that, I used a camera lucida to plot the points, contours, and shaded areas. From there, it was a matter of filling in all the detail, including each crack, dimple, growth lines, and even the abraded matrix in Kermit's "mouth." As I went along, I used the blending stump to mask/remove unsightly pencil strokes and give it a more smooth appearance. 

[Kane]

And this is how the sausage was made.  

[Ludwigia]

5 hours ago, Kane said:

And this is how the sausage was made.  

 

Kermit just asked me to thank you for this flattering work of art. He is honoured to have been a subject for your more than worthy stylus 

[Fossildude19]

Yet another skillful rendering by the Human Backhoe. 

Amazing work, my friend.  

[Kane]

9 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

Kermit just asked me to thank you for this flattering work of art. He is honoured to have been a subject for your more than worthy stylus 

And you thank Kermit for being such a delightful subject, and for sitting so impeccably still so that I could do his portrait.  

1 hour ago, Fossildude19 said:

Yet another skillful rendering by the Human Backhoe. 

Amazing work, my friend.  

Thanks, Tim.  Of course, now I'm thinking what a challenge it would be to draw using a backhoe (although I can think of one famous earthworks artist whose practice involved creating spiral jetties...Robert Smithson). 

[FossilNerd]

Amazing artwork Kane! Just found this thread and have been looking back through your drawings. Beautiful! 

[Kane]

6 minutes ago, FossilNerd said:

Amazing artwork Kane! Just found this thread and have been looking back through your drawings. Beautiful! 

Thanks! They are a lot of fun to draw.  

[Mahnmut]

And really fine to look at!

[Kane]

The newest. This was was a challenge, not least of which being that I'm getting through a head cold at the moment. Each of the little pustules are there for the most part.

 

Time: ~7 hours

Materials: Pencils (H, HB, 6B), standard white paper. 

[ynot]

Looks like a high quality black and white photograph!

[doushantuo]

AMAZING ,artistic,skilful.

The term "Renaissance man" comes to mind.

euh:peeps,this is drawing* of a very high level

*"analog visualization using graphite and cellulose"

[Malcolmt]

Well I can't draw  but I did have the pleasure of spending the afternoon with Roger today having a few beverages and enjoying his company....... Next time we have to go out in the field.....Unfortunately and to my regret I was a no show for Roger and Kane's excursion this past weekend....... Monica we tried to invite you over after school today but I just realized I do not have your number.... P.S.you still have fossils in my basement ...........