More precisely, drawing from photos of sculpture.
If you think of drawing as translating, then drawing from sculpture is easier than drawing from life, because the sculptor has already done the half the work for you. He or she has simplified the forms for you.
Taking this a step further, drawing from a photo of a sculpture means that two-thirds of the work has been done for you. The photo takes the additional step of flattening the three-dimension orm into two and two dimensions is where your drawing functions. Piece o’ cake.
Well, no, not exactly simple. You still have to get over naming what you’re drawing because naming—the whole verbal mode—gets in the way. To that end, we turn things upside-down. And to turn a Michelangelo sculpture up-side-down, it’s really handy to have a photo of 
the humongous thing, especially if the original is in Florence.
Drawing by Jeanne Mueller, graphite on paper, ~14” x 11”
Michelangelo Buonarotti, 1475-1564. The Medici Chapel, 1520-1534
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/drawing-on-the-right-side-of-the-brain-by-betty-edwards/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/ptolemy-in-ulm/
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