Details of the Face-Final

This is my final drawing for this section on the face.
I am using a technique of laying the pencil lead on it's side to achieve a chalk shading effect.

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Ears

At this point I had decided to proceed with drawing only the black and white sketches in this small sketchbook. There are many examples in the "Dynamic Anatomy" book  that are beautifully drawn in colored chalk on newsprint. I will attempt to copy those at a later period of study using the appropriate materials and medium.

Nose Structure

Prior to this I had been taking some time and erasing and cleaning up the drawings. But by this point I finally used up my eraser, so I stopped revising the sketches and just left them as they were upon completion.

The sketch to the right has a line between the nose and upper lip that should not be there, but I am just going to leave it unretouched.

This section deals with drawing the nose.  The examples in this section are exaggerated in order to help understand the construction planes and surfaces.

Eyes & Nose

I began to realize that many of the sketches in the book were used as details on different pages. So to avoid drawing different arrangements of the same sketch, I decided to look ahead and find the pictures that were repeated, in order to choose which one to draw.

As you will probably notice, this made for some odd layout arrangements.

Details of the Face

The upper lid arches high inside the socket, while the
lower lid curves to the outside of the socket.

Nose & Lips

The upper lip is shaped like a flattened M. The groove of the M (philtrum) thrusts forward like the prow of a ship (tubercle). The lower lip is developed like an extended W. The center groove receives the tubercle of the upper lip, while the arms of the W form two elliptical lobes.

Profile

The eye position, in the side view, starts on a line drawn up from the nostril wing.

Eyes

This page of drawings was copied from a group of sketches on page 90, that were done in colored chalk on newsprint paper.  

Burne Hogarth usually draws the eyes with concentric ovals, but I felt compelled to fill in the pupils and add reflections to the surface of the eyeballs, just for the sake of practice.  

Eyes & Nose

This type of structural approach to the facial features is why I chose this book for lessons.

Side Plane of the Head

Movement of the Head

Four Rotated views

Points to Remember in Drawing

The nose is as wide as an eye length. The head at the brow is five eye lengths across the width. The ear is tilted slightly back, at a fifteen degree angle; it swings like a gate slightly forward from it's attachment. The bridge of the nose, the slant of the eye socket, the groove of the cheekbone, and the point of the jaw all lie on a forty-five degree angle from the center of the head.

To place the eye correctly in the socket , start the corner of the eye on a line drawn directly above the end of the nostril.

Variable views of the Head

Rotated views of the Head

The brow at midpoint establishes the placement of smaller forms

Measurements

The brow ridge is at mid-distance from crown to chin. The wedge of the nose is at midpoint on the face from brow to chin. The cheekbone ends on a line drawn across the base of the nose. The eye socket opens at the brow ridge and ends on a line drawn at midpoint across the nose. The barrel of the mouth begins at the nose base and ends two-thirds the length down from nose to chin.

All of these measurements and more are detailed in the book "Dynamic Anatomy". I do not want to repeat the information from the book without crediting the source. I found all of these points on the face important to remember when I am laying out the construction lines to start a drawing.

The sketches that I copied from the book appear to be chalk drawings, but I have chosen to draw them all in pencil. This drawing looks light because it was done with a hard 2H pencil that does not produce dark lines or shading.

I tried to maintain the correct proportions by matching the layout in the book, like this drawing, that was originally grouped with some other drawings, but I chose to sketch it by itself,  just to fit it into my sketch book.

Secondary Facial Masses

Positioning of the Secondary Facial masses

Three Quarter View

Copying from the Masters

I could not pass up the opportunity to copy this sketch by Michealangelo

Basic Planes of the Head

My name is Daniel Bourbonnais and I started copying these black & white sketches on April 20, 2011 in order to develop my skill as an artist.