SnitzerArt.com ~ Classic Oil Paintings & Drawings

Before I start, I wanted to apologize about this picture. It is actually a week behind where I currently am at on the drawing. You can at least receive a glimpse of the process behind the cast drawing. This one is being completed in sort of a quasi-site sized method. It’s not entirely site sized though considering the subject matter and the drawing are on different planes and not directly side by side. I’m working more relationally on this one, and basically that just means that I established the big shapes first, mainly just establishing the top of the subject matter and the bottom of the subject matter.

Beginning the Cast Drawing Process

What I did from there was I related angles of all the inside and outside pieces of the subject matter, and tried to see through my subject. I would grab large angles and relate them across the entire subject. For instance, this stage shows a lot of the linear angles that I was working out, and at this stage you can grab an angle in the face, basically measure it all the way across the figure and see where it crosses at the bottom of the figure and see if your drawing is doing the same relationships.

It’s a fairly quick way of measuring and you can receive a great amount of accuracy in your drawing from it and you won’t be pulling your hair out midway through the drawing either.

This is just the first stage of the drawing you are in seeing in this picture though, and I will have a new shot up shortly of the rendering that has been started on this piece. One difference you will notice with this one when I post the image in comparison to the Eye of David cast drawing is the richness achieved in the blue paper and white chalk charcoal drawing that can’t be attained with charcoal and white paper alone. The white chalk and the blue paper gives such a dynamic value range, it really brings the drawing alive and almost makes it look like a painting. You will be fairly pleased with the results. Stay tuned.