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Hey jimmy, so you want to be told what to do.
Simple.
I know you like grids but this will be a challenge.
THE GOAL IS PERFECTION AND THE PORPOISE IS LEARNING:)
Charles Bargue.
He was a teacher in France who made copies of casts and taught students from them.
Vincent Van Gogh did these “Bargue plates” several times and wrote to his brother Theo about them.
Van Gogh bust with excitement about how much he learned from doing them.
I’ve got a link for you to HI REZ scans of the plates below.
There is no instruction to them as all the instructions were done by the teachers themselves.
I will include some links to how people today use them.
You can use grids, or if you wanna really learn from them, just use a plumb line and then measure with a tool (pencil,thread,knitting needle) like many artist do now.
You can take as long on these as you like or as little time as you want.
This is kinda home atelier training where you learn super amounts of stuff and can take it as far as you want.
I am just starting these myself and will go on to drawings of cast reproductions of classical sculptures.

Good luck man.

The plates:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3L35qUeb0ASekVSbTQyWXJyQ3c/view

Here’s a couple of links to see how some folks do them...

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=113729

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12104&highlight=bargue