Any tips on drawing in the Art Nouveau style [Mucha in particular]?
Thanks.
Hi Silver, thanks for the advice, but that's kind of the thing I'm trying to get away from! Haha Like, I have a fantastic book on Mucha, but I don't want to be merely copying his work. A tricky one.
I actually studied Mucha's work on my Art & Design course 10 years ago
{my, how time flies!}
His work is very much realistic and acurate, but 'flowing' at the same time.
What you need is a couple of good books specifically about Mucha ~ I found several at the library, and also have a great book: "Art Nouveau" by Gabriele Fahr-Becker.
The project I did involved recreating some of his famous pieces, so I chose a couple, found magazine pictures of women in similar poses, and having cut those out and stuck them onto plain paper, drew in my own Mucha-style backgrounds around them.
* No, no... the point was that I wasn't *copying* it, but using it as a basis from which to work. Everything I did was entirely my own interpretation of an image, inspired by his originals, as a way of getting into that 'neat but flowing' style of his.
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