ACANTHUS Ornamental Art | Vol. I | Fundamental Concepts

It is my honor to share with you my first manual of drawing Acanthus Ornaments, thank you for supporting and for your interest in my works.

In term of ornament and decoration, foliage patterns are commonly used to depict the natural beauty of the art works. Among these patterns, Acanthus is one of the most widely used plant forms.

Within this humble document, I will focus on Acanthus-inspired design, including its compositions, angles, poses, design principles, applications to drawing and some other ornament-making skills.

The manual has 32 pages in PDF format, these are contents that included in the given study guide:

1. The Acanthus basic shape: Showing the construction of the Acanthus leaf, step-by-step of drawing it

2. The detail of Acanthus lobes (the single leaf): How to draw the detailed single leaves on an Acanthus branch.

3. The Oblique shape of Acanthus: Drawing a natural leaf form of Acanthus

4. The folding Acanthus: An attractive form that is popular use in Ornamental art.

5.  The Curving tip Acanthus: Performing a 3D form of folding Acanthus

6. The ‘S’ shape of Acanthus and the combination of ‘S’ shape and the curving form

7. Principles of Shape: How to apply the Acanthus drawing on the Ornamental work by understanding the rules

– The rule of Spiral

– The rule of Infinite loop (The ‘eight’ form)

8. Pattern composition and Layout

– Principles of Design: The Emphasis, Balance, Contrast, Similarity

9. The Combination of Patterns

– Same direction combination

– Reverse direction combination

– The application of the rule of Infinite loop

10. Overlapping Patterns

11. Main types of Layout

– Symetry

– Repetition

– Freestyle Layout

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Thank you, have a nice day and stay safe, hope that you will enjoy to learn Acanthus in these difficult days and period.

Tri Le