Sealacanth Studios: Look Around You

I thought this title was fitting because a) all my sketches this week were of things sitting around me, and b) Look Around You (click this link to watch some episodes on Youtube!) is a show that everyone, especially science enthusiasts, should watch at some point. Anyway, I had a pretty giant creative block all week, so out of frustration I just drew the closest thing to me - a cup and a fork.

Cup and Fork - mechanical pencil and color pencil

During the same day, I drew a couple other sketches; two of my hand and one of Maddy, my pitbull pup.

Hands - 4B graphite pencil

Maddyyyyy - 4B graphite pencil

And today I started one more sketch, but haven't finished it yet.

Branch, Key and Charger - 4B graphite pencil

Besides my art, I think it'd be fitting to talk about famous scientific illustrators in this blog, and George Stubbs is my current inspiration. Stubbs started out as a well-known equestrian painter from England during the 1700's. From a young age, he had a passion for anatomy and nature, and since his father was a leather-dresser, his passion was focused onto horses. This man's obsession with horses makes eleven-year-old girls look like they hate horses. He studied and recorded the form, anatomical structure and movement of these animals throughout his artistic career with meticulous detail, creating both realistic and fantastical images. In 1754, he moved out to a solitary farmhouse with his wife, where he started one of the most ambitious contributions to scientific illustration. For twenty years, Stubbs dissected and drew horse cadavers, illustrating every layer of the horse's body. In 1776, he finally published The Anatomy of the Horse, which contains thirty-six plates and highly detailed text of his research. (I gotta have this book!)