Brunette Girl With Huge Breasts Reveals In The Atelier With A White Pillar

Art from Ateliers using the sight-size method is often reminiscent of Greek and Roman sculpture from classical antiquity such as the Apollo Belvedere. Paintings may favor the visual imagery of the Neoclassical art of the mid 18th to 19th century. The sight-size method also lends itself to styles of portraiture in which the artists desires an accurate, natural, true to life or even near photographic image of the sitter as is evident in the work of Bouguereau.
• Comparative Measurement
The comparative measurement method requires proportional accuracy, but allows the artist to vary the size of the image created. This technique broadly encompasses any method of drawing that involves making accurate measurements primarily using the naked eye. In the early training period students may be aided by a pencil, brush or plumb line to make comparisons, but there is no transfer of 1:1 measurements from subject directly to paper. This is the method Jacob Collins, the Water Street Atelier, the Grand Central Academy and the Swedish Academy of Realist Art use.
In his essay, The Sight-size Method and its Disadvantages, the painter and instructor Hans-Peter Szameit, of the Swedish Academy of Realist Art discusses the disadvantages of sight-size, describing it as essentially the making of a mechanically produced image limited to one size, the "sight size."