Article · Sharpened Artist
Portrait Prep Series: Lesson 3, Planes and Head Construction
By John Middick
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2020
About this lesson
Compares three head-construction systems side by side - the Asaro planes model, the Loomis sphere method and the Reilly rhythmic-abstraction approach - and explains how the author combines them with three spatial axes to judge head tilt and turn.
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