Week 11 - Life Drawing - Anatomy of the face

10 minute sketch, Graphite Stick

 



 The focus of these set of life drawing sketches is the anatomy of the face and this focuses on the proportion of the face and all the features on it, capturing the anatomy of the face and head and also the perspective. A number of important theories are applied in this sketch as follows:

 

Positives:

• Good proportion of the face and facial features as you can see the face is split into three sections from brow to end of nose, from nose to chin and from brow to end of forehead they measure the same distance.
• Nice amount of detail on the face seen in the wrinkles around the eyes, around the mouth and on the forehead.
• Dark, bold and  curved line emphasise the contour of the face and also the structure of the face and nose.
• Offers a good amount of facial anatomy seen,  in the mouth as the wrinkles and lip muscles form an oval shape around the mouth, structure of the cheek bone and nose and also the eyes and forehead.

Negatives:

• I feel that the perspective of the nose in this pose isn't correct and should be more side on.
• More tonal value around the features on the face would give a better impression on how the light hits the face and how the shadows are cast.
• Increased detail and shape around the ears and hair is needed to put the side of the head into perspective.
  



20 minute sketch, Graphite Stick

 

This sketch is a longer sketch still focused on facial anatomy and getting the proportions of the face correct and showing the anatomy, the theory shown in this sketch is as follows:

 

Positives:

• Use of dark lines to emphasise the deeper wrinkles on the face and and lighter lines to show lighter wrinkles.
• The proportion of the face and the positioning of the facial features are good as the measurements of the eyes to nose is the same as the nose to chin and brow to forehead.
•  The perspective of both the head and the face are solid and show off the slight angle of the head and positioning of the eyes.
•  Light shading and mark making shows off the shadows cast on the face and the darker shadows under the eyes and nose.
• A good show of anatomy seen in the nose, mouth,cheek and eyes.

Negatives:

• More shadow and perspective lines would help to make the face and head look more three dimensional.
• The hands are not drawn as well as I would have liked they are not in proportion in the fingers.
• Capturing more likeness by adding subtle skin tone and features would make this sketch look more life like.