Planes of the head drawing

Artists often like to reduce organic forms to something simpler, to make them easier to grasp, and reducing the complex, rounded surfaces of the human body to a relatively small number of planes can greatly clarify its relationship to space and to light. Similarly, when we apply light to a figure, a strong light will make the patterns of light and dark clearer than a diffuse one. For realist artists at least, the important thing is understanding what happens in nature so that we can…

Some notes on drawing head. I have very analytical approach to drawing and this is what helps me with drawing head correctly. There are so many things to think about when it comes to head. This...

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A page to help you understand the planes of the face Andrew Loomis Designs

I took Nathan Fowkes' portrait workshop earlier this month after seeing posts on his website of the neat diagram he uses. It's a variation of Frank Reilly's diagram (Frank Reilly's teachings). I had it in mind while working on earlier variations of my model but this time I was paying a lot more attention to it. I found the workshop very helpful. The cheek area continues to be the area I find the most confusing. In doing these I tried to keep in mind a comment from Nathan to keep the lines…