I imagine many people think of sight size mostly as a technique used in ateliers to train drawing …
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Inspiration and practical advice for aspiring realist artists
I imagine many people think of sight size mostly as a technique used in ateliers to train drawing …
Continue Reading about How a Simple Version of Sight Size Can Help You Paint More Realistically
How many times have you heard this? I know I've come across it a few times, it's a common …
Continue Reading about That’s Not Art, It’s Just Copying What You See!
Before I start, I should point out that this isn't going to be a 'how-to' post on working sight …
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For today's post I'm going to explain the set up for the final version of the iron painting. It's a …
Continue Reading about The Lazy Man’s Approach to Sight Size
This picture shows the tone block at the heel going in. It should be fairly clear here how I'm …
Continue Reading about Bargue Drawing Tutorial Stage 6: The Finished Drawing
Finally, after ten or eleven hours work across several sessions, I've got this plate to the stage of …
Continue Reading about Bargue Drawing Tutorial Stage 5: Refining The Schematic
Now I've got my main four points established, I want to get the rest of the points I need to get to …
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First, the furthest left point. In this drawing, it's the point of the big toe, ringed on the image …
Marking the highest and lowest points In sight size technique, all measuring and judging is done …
Continue Reading about Bargue Drawing Tutorial Stage 2: Making the first marks
This is one of a series of six posts describing how to copy Bargue plates sight size: Stage 1: …
Continue Reading about Bargue Drawing Tutorial Stage 1: Setting up the drawing