Robert fawcett

These unpublished student sketches by Robert Fawcett show that, even as a teenager, he was a precocious talent: Ten minute sketch Ten minute sketch All his life, Fawcett continued to sketch from the model. Based on what he had learned at the Slade School, Fawcett believed his weekly drawing sessions would keep his eyes fresh. Fawcett's mature sketches show how his powers grew over the years: Detail Detail Fawcett believed that his weekly life drawing sessions paid off when it came time to…

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The Adventure of the Gold Hunter In his long career , Robert Fawcett was best known for the series of illustrations he did for Sherlock Holmes, written by Conan Doyle's nephew Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. There were a dozen stories that appeared. The first ran in Cosmopolitan, and the other eleven were published in Collier's Magazine in l953. Looking at this series you can understand why Fawcett was considered one of the truly great illustrators. The Adventure of the Demon…

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Even a boring spot illustration of a postal clerk can become an exciting trip through an abstract art exhibition when the illustrator is Robert Fawcett. Take a closer look. Back before micron pens and Photoshop became the illustrators' tools of choice, Fawcett was wrestling pictures out of bold, lusty marks such as these. There are 2,437,152 artists drawing hair at this very moment, but how many have the guts to open the subject to this kind of experimentation? Even a row of rubber stamps…

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The Adventure of the Gold Hunter In his long career , Robert Fawcett was best known for the series of illustrations he did for She...