Chapter 4
Clothing
The Texture of Line Revealed
Let’s talk about Michelangelo’s Pieta’. What is so amazing about his sculpture is how marble is made to look like flesh, bone, and cloth. Yet of course, if you were to touch it, it would be cold and hard. Its shapes fool us into thinking otherwise. The long smooth curves invent flesh. If you were to accurately draw this sculpture, it would have to be with harder lines. When drawing a real human being, the shapes should be drawn with the amount of pressure on the pencil that most closely resembles the texture of what it is you are drawing.
Above, look at the face next to the model’s hair. See the ...
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