


Try as I might, I close one eye, and stare at Raphael’s drawings in books or on postcards, and only marginally does the 3-d effect disappear. Mostly, the figures retain their depth, and the only way I can come close to learning how he rendered an eye or lips is to draw the photo upside down. It’s not that his drawings are hyper-realistic in their execution. Even his more finished drawings are a bit sketchy, literally. Wildly though, they convey light and dark so compellingly that they create the illusion of space and depth. 



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