Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Workshop: How to Draw A Medieval Animal



These are the sketchnotes I made after taking a free class offered by Julia Bangert, a book illuminator from Mainz, Germany. In the class she talked about looking at images of animals and drawing them by looking for their basic shapes. 


The animal we drew in class was a rabbit. From the sketchnotes, you can see the rabbit was drawn using circles and then details added so it looked more like a bunny instead of circles.

15 comments:

  1. I like your bunny and the monkey spitting up the frog. :) Maybe some sun tomorrow- I hope- before more rain. Even I'm getting soggy. Grin.

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  2. Experts make it seem so simple.

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    1. Julia has a real knack to break things down to make it easy to attempt

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  3. I love seeing the rabbit you made! But i can't unsee the monk eating the frog but now i know he's spitting it out... lol Love seeing what you do CJ! Hugs! deb

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    1. Medieval people would have understood the symbolism of the frog coming out out the monk's mouth to mean he was lying.

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  4. I like your cat in the upper left corner more!

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    1. Me, too. It was another historical example she had that I tried to doodle. I was hoping for the cat, but the bunny was fun, too.

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  5. Interesting way to sketch! Is that again a new background or do I get forgetful? So many wishes there!

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    1. Every month, I change the blog background according to the month/season

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  6. ta da! ‼️‼️ looks great…medieval…can we see t rex next, in honor of godzilla πŸ˜ΊπŸΎπŸ¦‹‼️πŸ’š

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  7. I think they are great and I like your new blog background.

    All the best Jan

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