Nature

Fantasy Meets the Natural World

posted on Apr 8, 2021

We briefly review the tools Albrecht Dürer used in his etchings, and we connect this to previous lessons on stippling, hatching, and cross-hatching. I ask students to recreate this same sense of anatomical precision by using multiple reference and drawing an animal with a juxtaposing depiction of realistic exterior and fantastical interior, providing a sense of peering into the animal—a window into its internal organs.

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