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Inside Da Vinci's Mind

A collection of masterpieces of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci.

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1. Leonardo's Exploration on Human skull

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In This Picture: This is a picture from the well known 'Leonardo's note books' book, this image is a picture of a page in Leonardo's personal manuscript. This drawing examines a cross sectional view of the human skull, the human skull is shaded with ash, or any other such compounds. The main but hidden attraction of this image comes in the form of a light drawing by the left side of the paper. It shows what speculated to be human teeth followed by some writings on Leonardo's handwriting. These tooth are numbered by 6, 4, 2, 4 respectively from left to right, showing a signature of a pencil. We can also see some issues with the first sketch of the tooth too. The questionable vertical line in the middle of the skull, may show the separation of two human sides, but it is more probably because of a mirror drawing trick Da Vinci might have used to create the overall shape.

2. Study on human hand, muscles and skeleton

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In This Picture: It is clearly visible that this page is a completion of several studies took by Leonardo in his middle ages at Vinci. You can see explanations on certain details between the drawings. This complete poster includes a leg, a view of a man's chest and head from the backside, a 'left' hand, three paintings about the muscles and veins of human neck and heart which also shows some parts of the rib cage. The last three drawings also shows some shady muscles on over the rib cage, which gives it a materialistic glow effect. Also, by the sides of the image, you can spot a painting, probably of a knee bone or some kind of scissors like joint with a sphere between two long bones as speculated.

3. Nature

I think its good to mention here, that unlike others who said that the moon was a god or a light, Da Vinci thought that is was a planet like ours, with an atmosphere and people living there. He also thought to cut up a bat to create an artificial flight - which he says that man could do it, yes, man could fly with its hidden strength. 

4. Tips for drawing perspective from the greatest painter of all time

    1. A light object will become smaller than its real size on a light background and vice versa.

Our own recreation of the law.

    2. In perspectives shadows are very important to discriminate the opaque and solid objects. Here, shadow means a blur or atmosphere on the object.

    3. Reflections will be as perfect when the reflector is more transparent.

    4. Away mountains (here, a distant object) is more luminous (here, only under sunlight).

    5. The darkness of space combined with the brightness of the sun / sky causes the blue color of the sky. (probably a misconception, its because of his studies was with paints on the olden times when they were made with Charcoal, soot, and charred animal bones, any of them, especially considering charcoal, could give the resultant bluish color.)

Our own false colored recreation

    6. white object have blue shadows (it might reflect more light from the sky - our explanation.) Da Vinci also specifies that this is because of the nearby colors later.

Sources

Google Books / Leonardo Da Vinci's Notebook : A 289 paged book with images, and text written by Da- Vinci. Links to this document are added to this article. https://books.google.co.in/books?id=uaUaAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Turbowarp / SVG Editor : A Scratch Mod, used for Visualizations and graphics.

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