Cours de dessin - estampe - (Charles Bargue) ; (avec le concours de Jean-Léon Gérôme)
Charles Bargue
Face & Portrait
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Beginner
What you practise here
Bargue method: exact copy of the academic plate
Start from the skull as a ball, place the brow line and the centre line, then check the thirds of the face before any detail. Compare angles, not features.
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