ALEXEY DOBROTVORSKII Portrait of a bearded man 2024 Charcoal on white paper 60x84 cm showpiece №7663

Understanding the shape and volume of an object when drawing. Very often, a drawing made from a photograph can be easily distinguished from a painting painted from nature, since such works, as a rule, suffer from a lack of convincing form on the canvas. The image looks flat, although it seems that every small detail is individually well worked out and similar, the transitions from light to shadow are prescribed, and all reflexes are taken into account, but the magic of volume does not arise. The correct understanding of the three-dimensionality of objects and its convincing image can be approached only by feeling the shape. Let the human figure serve as an example of the image. It is correct to always adhere to the rule of building a competent image architecture, it always works FROM THE GENERAL TO the PARTICULAR. Even at the construction stage, it is important for us to understand how individual planes relate to a large volume. How they are oriented towards lighting and how similar th