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    Default Albrecht Dürer and my passion for woodcut art

    In this old thread https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...hlight=woodcut I have described how I reproduce a woodcut by drawing only with vectors in Xara.
    I continued to experiment and refine my technique. Some examples:

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    From the last drawing I made a nyloprint cliché and printed the vector reproduction on a letterpress machine.

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    I wanted to see if I hit the woodcutters in any way. As you can see from the macro shot, this has been achieved.

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    Since I have some time at the moment, I decided to do a new woodcut by Dürer. The master class, so to speak.
    Every spare minute I’m going to draw on this work and share it with you. Whenever something new comes in, I’ll put it here and you’ll see the progress.
    So here is the first part of my new project. Maybe one or the other already realizes what it is. Have fun!

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    Default Re: Albrecht Dürer and my passion for woodcut art

    excellent ernie

    that new drawing is [going to be] an odd-toed ungulate I believe - really look forward to seeing it
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    Default Re: Albrecht Dürer and my passion for woodcut art

    Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
    excellent ernie

    that new drawing is [going to be] an odd-toed ungulate I believe - really look forward to seeing it
    Hi handrawn, it looks You believe right.

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    Default Re: Albrecht Dürer and my passion for woodcut art

    I loved his work and his logo-like signature. Well done Ernie.

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    Default Re: Albrecht Dürer and my passion for woodcut art

    That is just amazing work. The number of objects in one these drawings is just huge.

    When you are doing a drawing are you tracing over an example or are you trying to do it all by eye?

    Also what size would a drawing normally be?

    Again just so impressive.

    Ray

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    Default Re: Albrecht Dürer and my passion for woodcut art

    Quote Originally Posted by RKissane View Post
    That is just amazing work. The number of objects in one these drawings is just huge.

    When you are doing a drawing are you tracing over an example or are you trying to do it all by eye?

    Also what size would a drawing normally be?

    Again just so impressive.

    Ray
    Hello Ray, thank you for your interest.

    Since I live and work in Germany, I also work in the DIN-A format area. My drawings prefer to be in DIN A4.
    This allows me to be flexible and scale my drawings in the entire DIN A format range without any adjustment.
    Since everything is pure vectors, I don’t need to be afraid of possible resolution-dependent quality problems.

    Drawing from the background would be easier and faster but is not possible due to the resolution of the images,
    which are freely available on the Internet.
    That’s why I work classically with raster cells and then redraw them in my documents according to the eye and feeling.

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    Servus Ernie

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    Default Re: Albrecht Dürer and my passion for woodcut art

    Quote Originally Posted by ernie-f View Post
    In this old thread https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...hlight=woodcut I have described how I reproduce a woodcut by drawing only with vectors in Xara.
    I continued to experiment and refine my technique. Some examples:

    Click image for larger version. 

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    From the last drawing I made a nyloprint cliché and printed the vector reproduction on a letterpress machine.

    Click image for larger version. 

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    I wanted to see if I hit the woodcutters in any way. As you can see from the macro shot, this has been achieved.

    Click image for larger version. 

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    Since I have some time at the moment, I decided to do a new woodcut by Dürer. The master class, so to speak.
    Every spare minute I’m going to draw on this work and share it with you. Whenever something new comes in, I’ll put it here and you’ll see the progress.
    So here is the first part of my new project. Maybe one or the other already realizes what it is. Have fun!

    Click image for larger version. 

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    Great work ernie, you are without a doubt one of the many on TG whose work I am in awe of.
    Larry a.k.a wizard509

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    Default Re: Albrecht Dürer and my passion for woodcut art

    Really enjoying watching this come to life. It looks like the end is approaching, although I suspect there’s a lot detail in the next section.
    Jon (Jono) Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 19.0.0.64329 DL x64 May 19 2022

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    Default Re: Albrecht Dürer and my passion for woodcut art

    Looking awesome, Ernie.

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    Default Re: Albrecht Dürer and my passion for woodcut art

    Outstanding.

 

 

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