Animated Head

Trying To Work Out The Face

There are all sorts of problems here.  

Now that I've got them scanned in I'll try to work out some of the issues digitally. 

Note Heads

Head Abstraction

10 min Heads

From Head Hands and Feet with Karl Gnass

Model - Rachel Bailit

More Spheres

Facial Plane

Inspired by this article on the facial plane that I came across while looking for something else. The first two drawings are versions of the image from the article. I attempted to reduce the variation between the faces though. I wanted to see what the difference looked like if how far the muzzle stuck out was the only variable. For the second set I googled before and after photos of an underbite correction. I remembered them from looking up the term "prognathic" which I had come across when studying skulls earlier in the year. 

Note Heads

Practice from photos

Tiffany and the Kanisa Square Illusion

From Karl's Head Hands and Feet class

An effect I would like to pay more attention to:

Hands and Feet

From Karl's class

Ellipses

Hands

Heads from Class

 From Karl's class

Note Heads

Practice from photos

Spheres with Cylinders

Head Class Expressions

8-15 mins. Karl's class. Model - Julie Wions

Cylinders and Cubes

Using a cylinder instead of a cone is getting me to deal more with the ellipses. Having the extra ellipse on the bottom makes me think more clearly about the ellipse that is wrapping around the middle and has highlighted some gaps in my understanding.

 P sage on the ConceptArt forums suggested I take a look at  moatddtutorials. I especially liked this one The Basics: what they mean 

I liked what he said about switching back and forth between the cubes and the cylinders and using the two ideas to support each other. It made me think about these two approaches to breaking down the figure. There's a Luca Cambiaso drawing from the mid 1500's at the beginning of Robert Beverly Hale's Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters that shows a block breakdown really nicely, and Walt Reed's The Figure: The Classical Approach to Drawing and Construction has really nice cylindrical breakdowns.

The Circles and Ellipses feel better, easier, more natural to me, but the cubes provide valuable information in dealing with perspective that I don't think I can get from the ellipses alone.  

I'm reading about childhood drawings in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and Edward's has this to say - "One of the most basic scribbling movements is a circular one, probably arising from the way that shoulder, arm, wrist and fingers work together. A circular movement is a natural movement - more so, for instance, than the movement required to draw a square. (Try both on a piece of paper, and you'll see what I mean)" pg 67 Maybe that accounts for my preference.

Expressions and Hats

John Maki in Karl's class 5-8 mins

Abstracted Head Turn

I did these to test out the relationship of the cone to the more complex head.  I don't think it gives me enough information.  I'm going to try a cylinder next.  I had forgotten this was how I started.

5 min Heads

From Karl's Class

Spheres and Cones

  

Portrait Practice

From Photos

Annie Laurie Gaylor, Debbie Goddard, Emily Dickenson, Jessica Ahlquist, Richard Dawkins, Susan Jacoby, Madeline Murray O'Hair, Ernestine Rose, Elizabeth Caddy Stanton, Robert G. Ingersoll, Susan Blackmore