Get Four Historic Drawing Plates You Can Print at A3 and Study Beside Your Easel—Free
Download four selected plates from the Historic Drawing Course Archive and examine the files for yourself before deciding whether the complete collections belong in your studio.
Classical head and landscape studies
Prepared for A3 printing
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These are working study plates—not decorative preview images.
Dear artist,
A small image on a sales page can show you the subject. It cannot tell you whether the file contains enough detail to study the edge of a shadow, the direction of the hatching or the structure beneath hair, foliage and stone.
That is why the first step is simple: download four actual plate files, open them at full size and print them.
Place one beside your paper. Examine the marks. Test the scale. Decide from the files themselves whether this is the kind of material you want available whenever you sit down to draw.
No credit card is required.
Four plates selected to show different kinds of drawing information.
Classical Head Study
Use the plate to examine large proportion, sculptural form, contour control and the organisation of fine marks inside the shadow.
Landscape Structure Study
Study how complex natural form is simplified into trunk, branch, foliage mass, edge and directional mark without reducing the subject to a symbol.
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Frequently asked questions
No. You receive four digital plate files by email and print them yourself or through a local print service.
No. A local copy shop or online print service can produce A3 sheets. The files can also be reduced if necessary.
You can study and print the four sample plates. You may also receive information about the complete Bargue, Reverdin and Calame archive. You can unsubscribe at any time.
No. The free files are supplied for personal artistic study under the included sample licence.
No, these are digital scans of the authentic originals gathered from museums and archive sites.
Print the plates. Examine the detail. Decide for yourself.
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