At the request of Cathy Muhly, I'm posting the address of an article American Artist wrote about the artist Robert Liberace and his drawing technique:
http://www.robertliberace.com/americ...starticle.html
You may have heard of Robert. He won "Best of Show" at the Portrait Society of America's show in April, 2002. I met Robert's teacher Frank Wright in 1990 and he showed me the figure drawings of his prize pupil. They looked like Rubens figure studies; I was stunned. Frank described briefly the technique and with that knowledge I went back to Maastricht and experimented until I had something to offer clients who could not afford oil portraits.
I hope after reading the article you will get the itch as I did and experiment with drawing techniques. It can only further enhance your oil portrait work--and best of all, there are no brushes to clean afterwards.
Robert's website is well worth a visit:
www.robertliberace.com
S.Bartner/Maastricht