Bargue Plate Drawing (Graphite)

The most in-depth Bargue Plate classical drawing course available online. In this 8-week course our instructor demonstrates every step of making a detailed graphite Bargue plate copy, resulting in a drawing that sets the gold standard for contemporary atelier training.

Instructor Ian Hurtado Zafra spent over 100 hours creating this drawing, and we’ve edited it into eight watchable video lessons. The entire process is documented from beginning to end, including hi-resolution closeups of Ian’s masterful graphite shading technique in more detail than is observable even in person. Sadie’s voiceover narration describes the process, goals, and concepts behind this most fundamental exercise of historic art training.

1. Bargue Plate: Block-In
2. Bargue Plate: Value Scale
3. Bargue Plate: Value Sphere
4. Bargue Plate: Value Study
5. Bargue Plate: Cross Contour
6. Bargue Plate: Flat Shadow
7. Bargue Plate: Turning Form Part I
8. Bargue Plate: Turning Form Part II