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-Sir Joshua Reynolds, Discourse XII As mentioned in the approach section, Sight-Size training often begins with cast drawing. Through this exercise, the student's eye is trained to see and compare nature with their work. When learned well, the student eventually becomes a master and will generally dispense with most of the physical aspects of measuring that they were taught early on. Those tools will have become second nature and a part of the artist's subconscious. Traditional measuring will become comparing and that will mostly be done in the artist's eye. Below you will find a simple set of instructions on how to do a cast drawing. For the complete version please purchase a copy of Cast Drawing Using the Sight-Size Approach. | |
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The Cast: Bust of the Discobolus Available from Giust Gallery  |
Step 1. Block in the main shapes paying particular attention to the contour and main shadow line (the bed-bug line). |
Step 2. The initial shadow lay in. |
Step 3. The intitial shadow lay in completed. |
Step 4. Halftones and lights added. |
Step 5. Values and edges refined. The drawing is completed. |