Bargue and Sight Size

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!

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 …

Continue Reading about Bargue Drawing Tutorial Stage 4: The First Schematic

First, the furthest left point. In this drawing, it's the point of the big toe, ringed on the image …

Continue Reading about Bargue Drawing Tutorial Stage 3: Marking out the furthest left and furthest right points

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