A Bargue Drawing using the Comparative approach

Comparative measuring (or sighting) is a way of measuring the size of what you see and using those measurements to draw a larger or smaller image of the same.   In comparative measurement, we try to find the relative scale of any part of the figure to any other. Need to know the length of the forearm? Measure it on the model and then compare it with something else on the model. Then make the same comparison on your drawing. For example, maybe you find that the length of the model’s forearm is equal to the width of the torso at the waist. Make the same comparison on your drawing, and if you see that the length of  your drawing's forearm is equal to the width of your drawing's torso, then there’s something correct about that relationship.  In comparative measuring, we don’t make direct measurements between the model and our drawing as we do in sight-size, but rather filtered through relative comparisons.    I completed this Charles Bargue plate under Jonathan's direction using the comparative measuring method instead of sight-size.

The Belevedere Torso

 After Charles Bargue

Graphite on paper