
Job: 11803 Title: #218076# Drawing Lessons From The Famous Artists School (Rockport)
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Exploring a Variety of Approaches
When Al Dorne got the assignment to create an illustration focused
on an ailing farmer surrounded by his six lazy sons, he explored a
number of picture strategies before settling on his final approach. He
first envisioned the scraggly onlookers as vultures with outstretched
necks observing their prey. In his second sketch, the farmer’s sons
mimicked the appearance of the birds. “As I studied the sketch,”
he said, “it no longer appeared very exciting ...