"This exceptional manual of Drawing the Head provides a thorough survey of human facial anatomy through the artist's eye by illustrating Facial Features, Skull to Muscles, Expressions alongside detailed Anatomical diagrams!"
An invaluable source book and a teaching aid for all Artists, whether professional, student or amateur.
Learning to Draw is like learning a new Language. Drawing has its own vocabulary and more importantly, its own Grammar. The purpose of study is to become so fluent that the nature of the model expresses itself through your Pencil effortlessly. This means receiving impressions of the model with an open awareness, and translating them into line and tone clearly and spontaneously.
Through my book 'How to Draw the Head, I have given some basic information necessary for drawing face or head, information gathered from years of experience as an Artist and a Teacher.
This book contains my old works and latest diagrams, illustrations, and photographs explaining the texts.
My sincere advice to my students, practice all the diagrams, illustrations, photographs and develop the habit of collecting more Art Books and tions, and frequenting the Art Museums, Galleries and Reproductions, Libraries.
The essence of good drawing is Freedom and Spontaneity. Avoid becoming a slave to Rules.
Study Anatomy carefully, but when drawing a figure never use precision instruments of any kind. Just being aware of certain proportions will help you to draw them naturally.
Figure drawing requires good eye training to proportions and beauty, and such a training can only be had by practice and long study. My experience taught me that the best method to learn art is by beginning with the study of details, following a gradual scale of work, such as for instance, by copying from flat, easy drawings on paper where your eyes can easily grasp the subject and receive a knowledge of form and proportion
This would be the primary practice, is comparatively easy and it will impress upon parts of the figure, such as the eyes, ears, mouth, hands, feet and the general anatomy of the human body. Try to do at least one drawing every day. This is not so much an exercise as a way of seeing and approaching things, a way of copying and gradually gaining self-confidence.
Remember that all the great masters have created their own proportions in their work. Not one of them has ever followed all the rules slavishly. Every artist of standing has evolved their own theories from long study and observation.
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were not only outstanding artists, but profound scientists as well. They approached the structure of a man as a science, making their own dissections, drawing what they saw, and refusing to accept any notions without being convinced by seeing, studying and drawing from nature. Hence, in their work, the enlarging and elongation of the body at the expense of the size of the head can be explained partly by the desire to display their extensive knowledge of muscles and bones. Leonardo filled pages and pages of his famous notebook with detailed drawings of all sorts of anatomical details, constructions, and proportions of the human machine carefully and minutely described. "The highest object for art is man," said Michelangelo. Looking at his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, who could doubt it? For no artist can paint 200 figures, many larger than life-size, in a single continuous mural, as Michelangelo did in the 'The Last Judgment', without a thorough knowledge of the human being.
The more I drew, the more I saw; the more I taught, the better I became. Nothing gives me greater pleasure then to assist others in attainting their potential by developing the gift inside them.
Constant practice gives the hand sureness, and at the same time finds solutions for all sort of Anatomical Questions.
Finally, I want my sincere and Special thanks to my friends and to my beloved students who modeled for the drawings that follow.
I hope that this book will come in handy as a source of reference material to be useful and informative. I wish you may felicitous Pencil Strokes!
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