A post I forgot!! Da Vinci Sketches/shading

I just found a "to do list" post it note with some homework scribbled on it from a while ago in Kats lesson where we were asked to look at the works of Da Vinci in regards to sketching and how to shade to help us with shading/contouring faces and with shading face charts. So I have done a little research into Da Vinci himself and that of his work so here goes...
Da Vici was a famous Italian, not only artist, but wait for it.. Scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, architect, botanist, musician and writer! born on April 15th 1452 and dying on May 2nd 1519 (Angela Ottino della Chiesa in Leonardo da Vinci, p. 83) Da Vinci is considered to this day to be one of the most intelligent and talented men in recorded history. His most famous works of Art include the Mona Lisa, and The Last Supper. (http://www.leonardoda-vinci.org/biography.html)

Davici demonstrate kowledge that was hundreds of years ahead of his time these sketches not only exhibit his skills as an artist with beautiful shading and perfect detail but they clearly highlight just how much knowledge he had of anatomy which most people did not even begin to understand until centuries later. (Susan Hills, 2 August, 2013)

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci was left handed and used a method of sketching short paralell lines to begin his drawings, this method is called "hatching" The fact that he was indeed left handed and his hatching lines start from the upper left of the page and end at the lower right compared with a right handed artist who would sketch from the upper right to to lower left, helps authenticate the works as genuine Da Vinci pieces. Da Vinci was also tought to be the peson who founded the idea of curved hatching in order to create a 3D  effect in his pictures. Leonardo Da Vinci's favourite materials to use whilst drawing include; metal pencils, chalk, brush and ink and pens and tinted paper. (Debora Mends, http://www.howtodrawjourney.com/deborah-mends.html)