Add the eyes just above the mid point of the head. Sketch in the basic shapes of the lions head.I also recommend only pressing very lightly with your pencil at the start so that you can easily erase the construction lines when you have finished. We’ll begin with the basic shapes then move on to more detailed work.įor beginners just starting out I recommend starting with a 2H a pencil and paper then moving on to darker B-8B pencils in the later drawing stages. We will start with a simple tutorial showing how to draw a lion’s head. Then in I will be sharing my process for turning that basic drawing into a finished work of art. We are going to cover the basic step by step approach that I follow when drawing a realistic lion. Which is why I decided to share with you my approach for how to draw a realistic lion But lions can be a very difficult and challenging subject to draw. I love creating the long flowing manes and the bright, fierce eyes. Living with the gods by Neil MacGregor was published by Allen Lane in 2018.One of my absolute favourite animals to draw is a Lion. The accompanying BBC Radio 4 series was originally broadcast from 23 October 2017. With grateful thanks to John Studzinski CBE. The exhibition Living with gods: peoples, places and worlds beyond ran from 2 November 2017 to 8 April 2018. In 2017, UNESCO acknowledged Stadel Cave and other Swabian localities as World Heritage Sites of importance to all humanity and I am delighted that Ulm Museum has loaned this important sculpture to the British Museum for the exhibition. Lion Man is the oldest known evidence for religious beliefs and Stadel Cave suggests that believing and belonging have a deep history crucial to human societies and originating long before writing. These characteristics suggest that Stadel Cave was only used occasionally as a place where people would come together around a fire to share a particular understanding of the world articulated through beliefs, symbolised in sculpture and acted out in rituals. Lion Man was found in a dark inner chamber, carefully put away in the darkness with only a few perforated arctic fox teeth and a cache of reindeer antlers nearby. It is cold and the density of debris accumulated by human activities is much less than at other sites. Stadel Cave, where the Lion Man was found, is different. They were found in caves with large quantities of stone tools and animal bones that indicate people lived in the shelter of the daylight areas of these sites for repeated periods of time. Some support for this exists at the cave itself.Īrchaeological discoveries in other caves in this region include small sculptures as shown in the British Museum's 2013 exhibition Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind. Allowing this to be done might suggest that the purpose of the image was about strengthening common bonds and group awareness to overcome dangers and difficulties. This was a lot of time for a small community living in difficult conditions to invest in a sculpture that was useless for their physical survival. The Lion Man - making a replica from the Aurignacian layers of the Hohlenstein Stadel cave in Southern Germany using authentic tools. Perhaps this hybrid helped people to come to terms with their place in nature on a deeper, religious level or in some way to transcend or reshape it.Īn experiment by Wulf Hein using the same sort of stone tools available in the Ice Age indicate that the Lion Man took more than 400 hours to make: Distinct from other animals through their use of tools and fire, humans were nonetheless dependent on some animals for food while needing to protect themselves from predators. Lion Man is made from a mammoth tusk, the largest animal in the environment of that time and depicts the fiercest predator, a lion, now extinct, that was about 30 centimetres taller than a modern African lion and had no mane. Obviously, the story involved humans and animals. It is impossible to know what that story was about or whether he was deity, an avatar to the spirit world, part of a creation story or a human whose experiences on a journey through the cosmos to communicate with spirits caused this transformation. The wear on his body caused by handling suggests that he was passed around and rubbed as part of a narrative or ritual that would explain his appearance and meaning. © Ulmer Museum.įound in a cave in what is now southern Germany in 1939, the Lion Man makes sense as part of a story that might now be called a myth. The oldest known evidence of religious belief in the world. Stadel Cave, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 40,000 years old.
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