Sketch Book for the Artist

Dressing Character

I ONCE SPENT THREE MONTHS researching the work of Francisco de

Goya at the Prado Museum, Madrid. I made a drawing book full of

studies seeking to understand how he composed drama and pathos

in his narratives (see also pp.126-27, 172-73, and 252-53). These

characters, selected from different pages of my original book, look at

how Goya delineated volumes of thick fabric to express the

posture, shape, identity, and motivation of an individual.