Sketching and Drawing of Plaster Portraits (Art College Entrance Exam Accelerated Series)

Author: Zhang Jinglun
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Plaster sculptures serve as a transitional form for learning sketching. They have a simple color, uniform texture, and moderate reflection, which are conducive to observation and comparison. They are an effective means of cultivating students' ability to model human portraits and serve as the foundation for life drawing of real human heads. Since the color, texture, and other material characteristics of real models can interfere with beginners' essential study of human figure structure, the unchanging and stable state of plaster sculptures makes them an ideal teaching material. Currently, commonly used plaster sculpture textbooks are replicas made based on the excellent sculptures of masters from the Greek and Renaissance periods. They are vivid in form, rigorous in modeling, refined in technique, and full of strong artistic appeal. Through them, artists can not only understand the general principles and techniques of human figure modeling but also receive inspiration from beauty.