Charles Bargue Drawing Course - My Progress and Review

Drawins & Scribblins
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Published 2023-08-27
In this video I discuss my progress working through the Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome drawing course. This book focuses on reproductions of 197 plates of drawing produced by Bargue. The course was designed to help beginning art students to draw natural objects in proportion. The plates, for the most part, increase in difficulty. This book was initially published in the late 1860s.

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All Comments (13)
  • @madpug01
    Wow, you did awesome with those drawings! I am going to stick with trees and landscapes. They are so much more forgiving than human anatomy. I give you a lot of credit for giving this a try. That stuff is not easy!! You are rockin' it!
  • @mynewlinx
    Appreciate you sharing your sketchbook side-by-side. Your persistence redrawing the challenging plates and seeing your improvements inspires me to be more diligent with my practice. Excellent work! 👏👏👏 Thank you for post!
  • @rickwalker3237
    Thank you for sharing. I just got a copy of the same book and you have inspired me to get started! I really appreciate you showing your work. You should be proud of your progress.
  • @LisaRSArt
    Beautiful works & drawings. Thank you for sharing. 👏👏👏❤️
  • @Peter-733
    Nice work. ,i just started doing this course and its not easy. im using tracing paper to make a copy of the drawings ,so i can compare my sketch to to it when i correct it
  • @pentachronic
    Nice work. I’ve been doing a few of these and one thing I notice is that you are shrinking the plates down. The original plates are about 1.x in each dimension of the book printed pages. So if you shrink it down the detail will be really hard to achieve (at least in charcoal).
  • @williammclean6594
    I've been learning to draw. I couldn't even draw a stick figures. Now I can do basic figures and gesture. But I'm starting to learn anatomy right now. Do you think like drawing the specific parts in this book will help you remember anatomy? That's the overwhelming part of learning to draw. There's like so many things you have to remember. Eventually it becomes muscle memory I guess.
  • @einarjungmann273
    What is the point of doing these sketches? Was it really helped you to learn real anatomy and drawing from real life or photos? I got recommendation to buy this book, but I am sceptical how this technique can teach - how to see. Thx for reply