More Manikins!

Here are some scans from my sketch books of manikin figures.  I like to combine puppets, robots, santos and Manikins, all articulated figures. I am planning on doing some still lifes with manikins on the white panels.













This is my large manikin in the Studio.  I couldn’t stand that she didn’t have a nose so I made one, and some ears. 

She does have really nice hands and feet

Below is a robot  from the cover of Scientific American, Jan 2007. This figure, not a real robot, is a lot better articulated than our home manikins.  I want to be able to draw a manikin that moves like that!

 

This girl on the bike is from a book called. “Sexy robots” by Hajime Sorayama   

He takes pin up photos and makes them into robots.

I am always looking at how manikins and other figures, such as puppets, are articulated.  The figure on the left is from a Harrod’s catalogue.  The hands on this manikin are much more elaborate than my small manikin.  I can change the hands on my drawing to match the catalogue figure.  I think the yellow figure, which has been photoshopped would be a more interesting drawing if he had had articulated fingers.

The bad photo on the left, I took in ABC Carpet in New York, obviously this interesting creature, which had an animal head, has had some surgery and a reconstructed arm. Not your usual manikin!

Santos and Manikins: a more interesting still life!

In order to make my drawings livelier, I have been giving the manikins in my still lifes faces and real hands.  The traditional Santos have carved faces and are similar from the waist up.  These examples are a few from the book, The Divine Home (A lovely book.) Some of the Santos are also dressed and jeweled. The open skirt is where they were dressed.

By the way, if you would like to buy a Santos or a manikin with a carved face, try SantosCageDolls.  Some of their Santos also have wings.