Tuesday, February 22, 2011

316 - Virgin Territory



As it took a fair amount of work to compose, I figure I might as well show one of the ruffs for my icon.  Yes, it looks similar to the cleaned up version (please click here to see that), but there are parts that are a little off model. 

The word "nose" that I wrote represents that the Byzantines used the length of the bridge of the nose to the tip as the measuring unit for the face.  I used a complicated measure of the eyes combined with phi (please click here to see a JSVB post on phi) to work out the proportions.  This was before I learned about the nose trick.