Teach Yourself Visually Drawing

Gallery: Geometric Drawings. In this copy of a fascinating sketch by the nineteenth-century artist Luca Cambiaso, you can see ho ...

Planar Rendering of Complex Forms chapter 9 This is a copy of a beautifully simplified hand study by a seventeenth-century Itali ...

Draw a Plaster Cast The drawing of sculptures and plaster casts is a tried-and-true exercise that has been practiced by artists ...

The Tradition of Plaster Cast Drawing.................... .168 A Day at the Museum................................... 169 Plaste ...

The Tradition of Plaster Cast Drawing At the heart of the Renaissance, there was a revival of and fascination with the proportio ...

Draw a Plaster Cast chapter 10 A Day at the Museum. The drawings on pages 170–173 are the result of a day that the authors spent ...

A Day at the Museum (continued) In this Greek torso of a male athlete, there is an incredible feeling of gracefulness in the sub ...

Draw a Plaster Cast chapter 10 This Roman statue shows a contrapposto—first used by the Greeks and so called because the weight ...

A Day at the Museum (continued) This Greek sculpture of a male torso from 450–400 BC has a freshness, vitality, and degree of re ...

Draw a Plaster Cast chapter 10 This drawing of a Roman sculpture is another perfect example of contrapposto. For the figure to m ...

Plaster Cast Drawing in Charcoal. For this demonstration, the plaster cast shown here will be used to create a tonal drawing in ...

Draw a Plaster Cast chapter 10 In the first stage of the drawing, using the soft grade of char- coal, the artist applied a mid-t ...

Plaster Cast Drawing in Charcoal (continued) At this stage, the outline of the head, the features of the face, and the planes of ...

Draw a Plaster Cast chapter 10 Here the drawing clearly begins to take on a sense of form. The large shapes of light have been e ...

Plaster Cast Drawing in Charcoal (continued) Once again, there was no attempt to render the nuances of tone at this point. The a ...

Draw a Plaster Cast chapter 10 The range of tones in the shadow has been established at this stage. Some of the deeper darks hav ...

Plaster Cast Drawing in Charcoal (continued) Now, more of the half tones in the light area have been drawn using the medium and ...

Draw a Plaster Cast chapter 10 The drawing continued to progress in much the same way—the artist worked back and forth between t ...

Plaster Cast Drawing in Charcoal (continued) In this stage, the artist was striving to create the subtle textures in the plaster ...

Draw a Plaster Cast chapter 10 This detail image of the completed drawing clearly shows the texture of the charcoal on the paper ...