Week 8- Plaster head

 

Following on from lasts weeks task of drawing a human skull we have now moved on to drawing a plaster head. I have always struggled with drawing faces accurately since they require I high level of understanding of facial features and proportions as like the skill it is very clear when the stricture of it is not accurate. This task was more about focusing on the technical stricture of the face and how elements of tone would be used to portray these. This task was highly challenging for me and it took my a lot of time and correction in order for it to look a bit convincing.

I started off my drawing a few preliminary sketches just so I knew which plaster head I would like to draw for this weeks task. I enjoy drawing harsh shades so I opted to draw the top one as it features some stronger more angular area of shade and light. I wish I had spent a bit mire time practising the constriction  of the head and maybe picked a different angle as the angle I chose to draw from was very challenging since it wasn't completely front on so all the features of one side were a ton bit lower and smaller. There was a fine line between them looking wrong as I found when drawing them. 

This was my initial sketch of the head before I started correcting the features that were out of proportion. I wish I had used more measurements so that I could have gotten the distance between the features closer to the plaster head. 

As I began rendering I tried to keep in mind line and and where my light course was coming from. I also noticed that my head was looking very wide so I tried to correct this error as much as possible. The nose was very challenging for me because of the slight angle of the nose. It looked very strange when combined with some of the harsher shadows that were being created, 

This was my finished piece. I wish I had picked a different angle to draw from as I wasn't very happy with how the position of some of the features ended up looking especially the distance of the temples. I think my shading was accurate in relation however my skills with head constriction still need a lot of work. One side of the face also looks slightly raised. Overall I need to make better use of construction lines when drawing my next human face.