A cornerstone of learning classic drawing is that you copy various plaster casts and I have been doing that for more than two years now at Sofia Art Academy. For Christmas, my wife Anne gave me a Abraham Lincoln bust so that I could practice at home. Last weekend I started to draw the President and the picture above shows how it looks after the first layer (1.5 h worth of work). I have focused on the proportions of features and capturing the various shadow shapes in order to achieve a likeness. Next step will be to further develop the shadow shapes with more value as well as refine the edges. Refining the edges means to keep the form shadows soft and the cast shadows hard.
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