Journal

Well, last week we learned about the skull and began our drawing studies from skull models (not actual models). I felt that I had quite a bit of experience drawing heads, but drawing an actual skull is very difficult! The first thing I had to learn was that there was nothing ROUND about the head whatsoever. Also what was difficult was getting proportions right when the head was turned a bit. On the front 3/4 view, I ended up drawing the far side much too big, making that part look like it was viewed straight on and the other half of the face looked like it was turned at an angle. (That's what all those eraser marks are from!) This angle-proportions thing is probably going to be the hardest to get right on the actual model. Plus faces are what we are so used to looking at and we KNOW what they are supposed to look like. Any wrong angle or proportion is going to be very easy for viewers to pick out.