The Action of the Head and Neck
This is a schematic by Al Dorne, that illustrates how these structural vertical and horizontal bisecting ellipses, what I like to call the Medial Line and the Mask overlap and converge as the head rotates in space.
Drawing the human figure, especially from life is a portal to understanding our relationship to the world around us. It is why we create Art. Here we seek to find that balance between the seen and unseen. To make the connection that expression guides our technique to authentic communication.
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Visualizing the Head in 3 dimensions
Visualizing the Head in 3 dimensions
This is a compendium to my Drawing the Head Workshop which was held at the Woodstock School of Art on May 8th and 9th 2018. I used as a syllabus, elements of the Famous Artists Course 1957 version. I believe the illustrations and text are by Albert Dorne who along with Norman Rockwell founded the Famous Artist Corse.
The most important thing in my opinion about drawing the head is in visualizing its volume. These drawings beautifully illustrate how the vertical medial line bisects the head bi-laterally, into two mirror halves. In addition, the horizontal bisecting lines describe the line of the eyes, nose level, and mouth on the egg- like volume of the head and appear as horizontal ellipses, or concentrics.
Planes of the Head
Andrew Loomis Planes of the Head
From my workshop at the Woodstock School of Art
Here is Andrew Lommis' version of the Planes of the Head. There are many versions of the planar head which exist among them: the Asaro head, the Bridgeman head, etc. and I'll post versions of these here. What these heads all have in common is that the artist is attempting to simplify the skull into more easily interpreted geometric planes. By simplifying the geometry, it enables the artist to better visualize how the skull occupies space and how light falls across it. The variations in the planarity among these artists interpretations reflect these artists own visualization of the skulls volumes.
Drawing the Head
Drawing the Head
This is a compendium to my Drawing the Head Workshop which was held at the Woodstock School of Art on May 8th and 9th 2018. I used as a syllabus, elements of the Famous Artists Course 1957 version. I believe the illustrations and text are by Albert Dorne who along with Norman Rockwell founded the Famous Artist Corse.
I've added my own observations to this course outline, which rely explicitly on the Medial Line as being the foundation from which drawing the head becomes much easier.
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