[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[Koen G]

I remain highly skeptical about a retracer as a separate figure. In these nymphs we see someone really struggling with human poses. 

Drawing humans believably in various compositions (without the required artistic experience) is harder than you'd think. Once in secondary school, I had been injured so I missed gym class for several sessions. As an alternative assignment, the teacher asked me (on the spot) to make a sketch of the various stages of the gymnastic leap the other students had been practicing. I'm ashamed to admit that the lines emerging from my pen did not agree at all with human anatomy. Having to draw a person in a pose I had never drawn before was hard, especially without reference.

If you look at the nymph's visible arm, you'll notice that it is in a position rarely seen in the MS. This artist had never drawn anyone holding their belly before. The torso is angled in an unusual way, the breasts are messed up. The line we see of the hidden arm is actually quite... good? It's the overall perspective that's messed up, because they had to draw something different here, away from their familiar cookie-cutter pose of one angled arm placed on the hip, one arm extended.

The darker bit is just ink pooling in the sharp angle. This happens a lot...