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| Cast Drawing Using the Sight-Size Approach | 
 enlarge | Author: Darren R. Rousar
Publisher: Velatura Press, LLC
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 14544
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 116
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0980045401
Dewey Decimal Number: 740
EAN: 9780980045406
ASIN: 0980045401
Publication Date: November 12, 2007
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Product Description
The first book of its kind, Cast Drawing Using the Sight-Size Approach teaches the student a systematic way to meet the challenges of drawing. Traditionally taught in classical art ateliers, Sight-Size is an approach to drawing and painting from life. It is through cast drawing that the basics of Sight-Size are learned. This approach is readily adaptable to other disciplines such as portraiture, still life, interiors, landscape and figurative painting. For more information about other books in the Sight-Size Library as well as instructional DVD's and Sight-Size in general please direct your web browser to www.Sight-Size.com.
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Sight-Size in understandable terms November 20, 2007
42 out of 42 found this review helpful
I ordered this book to enhance my studies at a local atelier that teaches this method. I have seen other books that discuss this method but none that covers a start-to-finish 'how to' of drawing like this.
The author gives clear instructions, photo references and helpful chapter summaries at the end of each section of the book. Though I find it helpful as an additional reference to the classes I am taking, the book is also written for those who do not have access to a classroom experience. The author gives detailed descriptions of the tools required and how to set up a cast and studio space for drawing with this method.
Darren Rousar provides helpful tips that only an active, involved teacher can provide. It's clear he has worked with students who tackle the problems he addresses when learning to see values and shapes correctly. Each problem is addressed with a solution, helpful tips and encouraging advice like "do not finish one area of the drawing before everything else" and "take breaks." That may seem like a no-brainer, but it's hard to see properly with fatigued eyes.
Sight-size takes time. It is a long process but it leads to true understanding of values and forms in a composition.
My only complaint is that the web sight that corresponds with the book is still under construction in places. No matter, I'm sure it will be up soon.
That does not diminish the value of this organized, easy-to-read book. I have been searching for a book like this to help me retain knowledge of the sight-size method and give me tips I may not have encountered in the classroom. Here's hoping this is the first in a series on the fine art of seeing!
So Grateful for this book!!!! January 7, 2008
31 out of 34 found this review helpful
This book saved us! My husband and I obtained the "Charles Bargue Drawing Course" from the Dahesh as soon as it became available. While the Charles Bargue Drawing Course has a section on suggestions for copying plates, it is simply not designed for someone without any formal training or professional guidance. Unfortunately, wonderful as the Charles Bargue plates are, they were useless to us without training. Since then, we have purchased many products looking for the skills to reproduce the plates. We were able to make some progress learning other sizing techniques, but we were always looking for a way to learn the "sight-size approach". Constantly on the lookout for a way to learn sight-size outside an atelier, we only found instructions that were inadaquate for someone with no formal training. I can't tell you what a thrill it was for this book to pop up during one of my usual attempts at googling all things "cast drawing" and "sight-size". What a wonderful find this book is. Darren Rousar is a master teacher and made the whole process so simple and easy that we were amazed we had ever struggled. This book is inexpensive, to the point, and very useful. If you have searched high and low for a way to learn sight-size, your search is over and you have arrived. Everything you need to get started is right here. Good Luck!
Cast Drawing: Using the sight -size approach January 7, 2008
9 out of 18 found this review helpful
This book arrived on time and was in excellent shape. Thanks for the swift delivery and excellent service.
 Good content, so-so production April 3, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
The content of the book is good; other reviews have covered it and I don't disagree, so no need to rehash.
One star deducted for its disappointingly mediocre production quality; it looks like a manuscript printed on a cheap home laser printer and sent off to the publisher for duplication, and in fact I'd be surprised if that wasn't exactly how it was done. The photographs, as a result, are badly halftoned and muddy-looking, like newspaper photographs, and for a work about detailed fine art line this one, that's really surprising and unfortunate. There are many photographs that I really wish were sharper so I could see the technique and results being described more clearly. I would happily have paid more for the book if it had had better print quality, like any of the other art instruction books I've purchased over the past few years.
Five stars for the content, minus one for the production.
Excellent explanation of atelier April 16, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is very simple and straightforward explaning the "atelier" or a sighting method for drawing which yields realistic drawings. I once took a class on this subject and have read a few books on it, but most were a bit "lofty" and philosophical. This book tells you how to set up an atelier studio simply and a week later I was using these methods and producing almost photo real drawings (been studying art for 4 years now). Highly recommended.
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