I think many artists at one point or another study works of contemporaries or predecessors.
A few years ago I "tried out" Heinrich Kley's style of drawing. These are just freehand doodles of my own, keeping Kley's sense for fantasy, anatomy and rendering in mind. Fun exercises.
Who wouldn't want to have their work at least a little bit impacted by this extraordinary draughtsman?!
I even thought how much fun it would be to try and create a short film in Kley's style.....still thinking about this.
Very good work! Kley is difficult to define in terms of style, but I think a good definition should involve the sculptural, volumetric dimension of his forms, rather than trying to appeal to a closed contour or perimeter. A bit like sculpting with wire, from the inside. Despite having so much in common with Mucha, he operates from an antagonistic position; Kley lines are only a reminder of volume.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to imagine this style animated. I guess some conflict would arise in the inbetweens, which usually work from the figures' outline (unless a much looser and less defined, less precise style is used, such as that of Bill Plympton).