The Skull
The skull has a ton of information to retain because it is the main focus of the human body. The face is the first thing you look at, but it is actually only 1/3 of the head. The cranium or "shell" makes up the other 2/3s of the area. There is an imaginary separating line from the earhole to the bridge of the nose that divides it in two. The eyes are what you notice first psychologically, but when drawing try to remember to not short the 2//3s section because that is where the brain goes!
The skull itself has four major sections. The Frontal section makes up the front third of the skull (shocker there). The frontal eminence makes up the forehead region. The middle section is the Parietal section. The high point occurs in this section. (suture line) The parietal eminence marks the wide points. The back section is made up of the occipital bone. There is a little external occipital protruberance bone that is found in the middle back. The mastoid process marks the side to back plane change. The side section, called the Temporal, contains the ear hole.
Some land marks that can be helpful: eyes are half way from top to bottom. Ear is half way from front to back. The brow is larger in males than females. The brows and cheeks come out farther to protect the eye. The jaw is super narrow in realtion to the cheeks. There is a front to back plane change on the side of the face *try to think of pres tech to recognize the planes in space and the different planes on the face in the reflected light.
We drew from the skulls all week from all the angles. For the back view I focused on the contour lines because there wasn't much detail, but there was subtle variation. I tried marking the main areas off and then continuing lines around the surface. Right in the middle was throwing me off and then Amy explained to me that it was hard to differentiate because it was right at eye level. For the bottom, frontal view, i tried to emphasize the actual shape of the face and the natural holes/indentations. Another fun fact about my skeleton was that he was missing his bottom jaw, poor guy!
nice skulls. I had some trouble with the contours on the back 3/4 view as well. On the front view skull I would be careful about the shape of the eye sockets and nose hole. They look really spherical on your drawing. Its also good to leave out all the detail within the eye socket itself. Good job overall.
ReplyDeleteThese skulls are looking nice. I would watch out with darkening the eye sockets and nose so it doesn't look flat. Otherwise, nice job!
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