Sunday, February 3, 2008
Head inventions
Head inventions
Charcoal on newsprint
Another training exercise is to draw invented heads. As you can see, there is a sameness to their appearance. They are more organic and natural looking than "planes of the head" studies. The purpose is to become very familiar with average, ideal features placed in a well-constructed head. Developing a variety of "characters" or types is not the idea here -- just practice drawing idealized heads. My instructor once recommended that we draw invented heads "by the thousands". Why are they bald? Because the focus is on construction and features. Imagining various hair styles for these heads would take time and attention away from the basic focus -- the head itself.
