"Students often say “I’m not very good at that kind of thing,” when they see an academic figure done in flawless “photographic” proportions, and people outside the art world assume that few people can make such figures. But the Academies proved that everyone with a modicum of talent can make an impeccably proportioned figure, if they are trained to do so. The tens of thousands of drawings by Baroque academy students, held in museums throughout Europe and America, show that basically anyone can learn to draw a figure with reasonably correct proportions. A proportionally correct drawing is not really a matter of skill, and only marginally a question of training. Everything difficult about drawing begins after proportions are not longer an issue."
"Students often say “I’m not very good at that kind of thing,” when they see an academic figure done in flawless “photographic” proportions, and people outside the art world assume that few people can make such figures. But the Academies proved that everyone with a modicum of talent can make an impeccably proportioned figure, if they are trained to do so. The tens of thousands of drawings by Baroque academy students, held in museums throughout Europe and America, show that basically anyone can learn to draw a figure with reasonably correct proportions. A proportionally correct drawing is not really a matter of skill, and only marginally a question of training. Everything difficult about drawing begins after proportions are not longer an issue."
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