Eye training - a series of cast drawings

[Paul Foxton]

That's great Linda, hopefully we'll be able to compare notes as we go along. Please feel free to Bargue in (ouch!) on this thread with your own drawings.

I should point out to anyone reading this thread that I haven't the faintest idea what I'm doing. Don't take this thread as a recommendation on how to do cast drawings, I'm learning as I go.

Today I started the second drawing. This shot is a work in progress at the second stage. Stage one is selecting, measuring and placing the marks for the main points on the form, stage two is literally 'joining the dots.' At this point I've been working for about five hours. Next I'll be making corrections to this stage before proceeding to refine the outline further, then laying out the shapes of the main tone blocks. At that point the schematic will be done and I can start the next one.

I got a new tripod today which means at least that I can get the camera to my eye level, but I'm still struggling with getting shots that look the same as what I see when I'm drawing. For reasons I don't understand, the drawing appears substantially larger than the cast. I know it's out, but it's not this far out. It's mostly down to my lack of knowledge about how cameras work I'm sure, but it just confirms my deep mistrust of these nasty mechanical contraptions.