This sketch is the sixty-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year…
Day sixty-eight: My favorite text message today came from a friend looking for a word that was on the tip of his tongue: “What is the term used for the technique developed by the Greeks pertaining to how parts of the body shift in response to other parts. For instance, when I shift my weight to the right leg, the left hip drops…” I was pleased that I knew the answer off the top of my head. Contrapposto, Italian for “opposed.” It’s just the sort of thing I should be practicing with my figure drawing. These two sketches are studies of a Doryphoros sculpture at the Vatican Museum in Rome (a Roman copy after the Greek original by Polykleitos). There’s another Doryphoros at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, often with art students sitting around it sketching.
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