Teach Yourself Visually Drawing

Gallery: Plaster Cast Drawings. This is an example of a plaster cast drawing in charcoal and white chalk on gray paper. The colo ...

Draw a Plaster Cast chapter 10 This highly finished plaster cast drawing was executed in charcoal on white paper. All of the str ...

Gallery: Plaster Cast Drawings (continued) In this light and airy plaster cast drawing, the sense of form is achieved through pr ...

Draw a Plaster Cast chapter 10 In these plaster cast block ins, you can see how the artist has built the forms of the sculptures ...

Gallery: Plaster Cast Drawings (continued) In this charcoal plaster cast drawing on white paper, there is a clean, crisp look du ...

Draw a Plaster Cast chapter 10 This is a drawing of a Luca della Robbia sculpture that is considered a high-reliefsculpture beca ...

The Portrait Many individuals are fascinated by the multitude of faces that they see and are compelled to draw them. However, be ...

The Allure of the Portrait................................ 192 The Portrait in Three Dimensions......................... 194 Fac ...

The Allure of the Portrait Without a doubt, the human portrait is the most frequently drawn and painted subject throughout the h ...

The Portrait chapter 11 The Artist’s Mother, by Jacob Collins, courtesy of the artist ...

The Portrait in Three Dimensions. The drawings in this section were chosen to illustrate this subject because they represent con ...

The Portrait chapter 11 When the form of the human head is broken down into its simplest terms, it most closely resembles a rect ...

The Portrait in Three Dimensions (continued) Here is an example of a head with a viewpoint from above. The light is squarely foc ...

The Portrait chapter 11 Thinking in terms of a rectangular box in perspective with a high eye level is very useful when construc ...

The Portrait in Three Dimensions (continued) This example is a portrait with a strong tilt to the right, where the light source ...

The Portrait chapter 11 As mentioned on the previous page, the tilted rectangular box is clearly indicated by the strong separat ...

This is a copy after Andrea del Sarto. It is drawn in charcoal. One of the overriding qualities that define this work is its uni ...

The Portrait chapter 11 The del Sarto portrait fits neatly into the cube-like form (a). It is remarkable that with only two larg ...

The Portrait in Three Dimensions (continued) This portrait, which is also a profile, achieves its sculptural illusion of form wi ...

The Portrait chapter 11 In many portrait drawings, a common occurrence that compromises the form of the work is overmodeling. Ov ...