Facial foreshortening is always tricky, but when I'm just drawing line by line (as in, I'm not really planning a particular drawing) every other line is reactive until the image forms, and before I knew it she was looking up. I always have trouble getting everything to angle right, mostly I think because I was never taught anatomy so I draw by mentally tracing the outlines of someone's shape, facial or otherwise... and not building from an understanding of the skeleton on outwards.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Leaning
Facial foreshortening is always tricky, but when I'm just drawing line by line (as in, I'm not really planning a particular drawing) every other line is reactive until the image forms, and before I knew it she was looking up. I always have trouble getting everything to angle right, mostly I think because I was never taught anatomy so I draw by mentally tracing the outlines of someone's shape, facial or otherwise... and not building from an understanding of the skeleton on outwards.
It's the nose that always gets me. I can usually get the angle and the eyes mostly right, but the nose just mucks it all up.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the nose is always so pivotal. I hate it when things don't match up, angle-wise, from feature to feature. Then it becomes a case which do I change? And what might ruin it if I like how I drew things individually and have to change anything. It's hard liking individual features... just not with each other.
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