sight-size

This lends weight to the proposed sight-size functionality.

Easel on Rails James Gurney 2009

Now Darren Rousar, a prominent instructor of academic sight-size drawing has brought it back into print.

New Edition of Drawing Made Easy James Gurney 2009

I'm really happy I learned about sight-size and "sight-tone" method.

Academy of Realist Art James Gurney 2009

Then you can get sophisticated in the way you do that, and you go beyond Betty to do sight-size, or you block-in carefully a la Ryder, and that is the same approach, only more sophisticated: you draw what you see.

Drawing Made Easy James Gurney 2008

Having said this, I confess, in shame, to never having done sight-size properly for it bores me beyond words.

Drawing Made Easy James Gurney 2008

I've always found the various methods that begin with 2D shapes including sight-size and the envelope method to be too heavily dependent on a totally immobile model, and all but useless for drawing from the imagination.

Drawing Made Easy James Gurney 2008

In my opinion sight-size is a roundabout way of tracing for people who do not want to admit they are tracing.

Drawing Made Easy James Gurney 2008

I find constructive methods invaluable if you are the kind of person who insists upon thinking,and I find "naive looking", blocking-in, etc, to be simply useful beyond question - but you gotta know when to use a hammer or a scredriver - to sight-size a moving bird is just silly.

Drawing Made Easy James Gurney 2008

I’ve heard the criticism that the sight-size academic method it leads to uniform results, or that it amounts to passive copying.

Academy of Realist Art James Gurney 2009