Week 15- Human head construction

 

This week out traditional task had a focus on the structure of a human head. Since I was not in the lesson I found a model online to draw an observational study from. Before attempting this task I looked through the resource's that my lecturer had uploaded for us as I knew that I was going to struggle with the composition accuracy of the drawing. For this pieces I tried hard to pay clear attention to the horizontal and vertical distances between the features of the face. When sketching out I used lots of straight lines to try and accurately relay the features in order to get good structure and form. I wanted the face to look as convincing as possible therefore I did spend quite awhile trying to get the eyes right. I found that it was very important to start with the eyes as this would make it a lot easier to start drawing in the features around them using horizontals and verticals also thought about the different planes of the face in relation to the lighting and features themselves. I picked a refence image with quite a lot of complex and dynamic lighting so trying to add this into the overall structure of the face was hard. For this particular model some key features of his face are his sharp nose and eyes and his smaller mouth in relation.

As I was finding it hard to confidently build up dynamic tones because I was nervous about ruining the structure of the features therefore when adding tone to the piece I was building it up very gradually with higher graded pencils. After some feedback I was told to add more of a tonal variation overall to stop the piece looking too monotone. 

I tried to capture both a good composition and expression within the format and I think one of the things that has gone well about this piece is how I have been able to capture his expression well. I think in terms of things I will need to work on I think the overall structure of the nose could have been  better in relation to the eyes. I would have liked to have added in some context by doing a quick rough background to the piece however I didn't have time to do so. I think overall I have decent resemblance to the model though I will just need to consider how the features work with the lighting scenario to confidently render this. 

I think to further my understanding of human head composition I will look at some anatomical breakdowns as this will help me be more efficient in achieving a realistic look.