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I also think that, like many other very accomplished painters, Greene's eye is so well-trained, he just skips the part with the measuring tool.
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I can't skip that part, either. I did enjoy watching the video again, long after I've learned what he's on about, and seeing how even at the stage of putting the very very loose charcoal gesture drawing on the canvas, he has a mental image of plumb lines. You have to watch closely. Even though he approaches the canvas with those windmilling arms, there will be times when he'll very quickly hold the charcoal up to, say, his view of the side of the model's head, take a relative reading on some other feature -- the crook of the arm, perhaps -- and turn and do the same plumb line assessment on the canvas, and the whole process takes about a second and is all in one movement. He does it so quickly and by now intuitively -- just a quick tap on the side of the head and then his hand drops down at just the right angle to mark the arm landmark -- that you'll miss it if you haven't internalized the process a bit yourself.
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