Grim
after Fritz
Eichenburg
This is a drawing I made using a mechanical pencil. It is a drawing of the grim reaper using techniques after the artist, Fritz
Eichenburg. This was an assignment in my
art portfolio seminar class where we had
make a drawing after any artist, as long as
it is your original artwork and not a copy
of any of the artist’s work. I chose Eichenburg because he make very detailed black
and white artwork, mostly in ink and pencil, which is my preferred style of drawing
and utensil for making my artworks. I tried
to incorporate Eichenburg into my artwork
by making the entire drawing shaded and
letting the lights and lighter shades of gray
form the main image of the drawing which
is the grim reaper. It is the grim reaper
standing in a dark environment. I chose to
draw the grim reaper because it is personally my favorite character to draw.
The idea of this drawing is to show my attempt to create an original artwork using
inspiations from another artist who share
similiar preferences of making artwork as
myself.
I want the audience to see how I tried to
incorporate Eichenburg’s style of drawing
into my artwork by comparing this drawing to one of Eichenburg’s drawing. Also,
I want the audinece to see how I treat my
levels of darks and lights to form the details of the character such as the scythe,
robe and skeletol body.
28 - Uncanny Subjects
“Grim reaper is always my
favorite character to draw and
to make in variations.”
- Gerardo Martinez
This is a variation of the drawing ‘Grim after Fritz Eichenburg” made in coral painter. In this variation, I used colors instead of
using my preferred style of black and white
only. Also, I used electronical replicas of
different art utencils such as charcoal and
paintbrush instead of using my prefered
utensil of pencil and ink. I recolored the
artwork to make a variation of the drawing that involves techniques I have never
used in my artworks. I used the colored the
reaper’s robe purple which is traditional
color used for death’s robe. The pole of
the scythe is colored brown to make look
like a wooden scythe. I colored the skeletol
body black an the inside of the robe white
and gray because it would be to similiar to
the original drawing.
The idea of this drawing is to be an alternate or an inverse variation of my original
drawing. I wanted to make this artwork
look very different f ɽ