Saturday, February 4, 2012


Medium: Pencils 6B, 2B and some others

10 comments:

Enbrethiliel said...

+JMJ+

I was wondering what makes this one different from your other sketches of trees in the woods, and then I realised it was the fern.

Paul Stilwell said...

Yeah, typically the ferns make it into drawings in a half-done sort of way. They are sort of tedious to render. But I did say to myself as I drew this that I need to include them more often in forest drawings.

Paul Stilwell said...

Plus the roots of the fallen tree.

love the girls said...

Mr. Stilwell writes : "typically the ferns make it into drawings in a half-done sort of way."

Not so much 'half-done' as half-revealed.

Even though the wood nymph's breasts are clearly visible they nevertheless require a slight bit of imagination to draw them and the rest of her out of hiding.

Belfry Bat said...

รด_o

Paul Stilwell said...

The nymphs that dance through woods
have no clothes but trees,
for they are fleet of foot - too quick to see.


Hm, doggerel! I haven't written more than two lines since...since, well, since Locus Focus!

Paul Stilwell said...

Correction: since Word and Question. I'm getting the Shredded Cheddar themes mixed up.

love the girls said...

"have no clothes but trees,
for they are fleet of foot - too quick to see."

Which is the advantage fine artists have over mere mortal men.
For they can and do capture them by brush and pen.

Enbrethiliel said...

+JMJ+

Yes, yes, I can take the hint . . .

But will I also run with it? =P

Paul Stilwell said...

Eenie-meenie-minnie-moe...