Tips on Drawing

The Tate, which organized the Gilbert & George show now at the de Young, is currently showing Neoclassical sculpture.

(I wish the de Young did more with its 19th-century sculpture.)

If you scroll to the bottom of the Tate's description of the show, you'll notice that materials are provided in the galleries so you can try your own hand at life drawing, that is, drawing from plaster casts, or, to be perfectly accurate, Neoclassical sculpture.

Nobody does this anymore, just as medical students no longer dissect cadavers. (Too time-consuming.)

So the unwashed public might as well.

I like the suggestion that you "try thinking about the the negative spaces instead of the body itself—what is the shape of the space between the legs...?"

Personally, I don't think it's necessary, at least in this country, to consider those spaces in a negative way.

Let's think positively while we are drawing The Bottom and The Giney and The Male Member.