MEETING 24 , year 2, 2015

Date: October 22, 9:00 am at the DAV studio

Speaker: Osmar Yang

Contents: Short Lessons in Anatomical Drawing II: Facial Details

Objective: In view of our portrait studies, I think that some notions of anatomy would be useful to improve the understanding of the difficulties of achieving success in portraits and to propose some strategies and techniques.

1 - General theme: Facial features (according to John Vanderpoel)

2 - Specific themes:

2.1 – Main sets of bones: skull, face and jaw.

2.2 – Alignments

3.3 – The Profile Line

2.4 - Triangulation

2.5 – Features details:

eyes

nose

mouth

ear

3 – Material:

kraft paper

white pastel pencil

sanguine or reddish colored pencil

charcoal pencil

reference photos

clipboard

4 – Bibliography

VANDERPOEL, John. The Human Figure.

PECK, Stephen Rogers. Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist.