Anatomy Drawing: The Head and Neck

By Helen South, About.com Guide

Draw the skull from various angles and in a range of mediums. Ideally, you should internalize the forms of the skull to the extent that you can sketch a good likeness from memory.

This study by Sharon McKeeman shows the development of a skull study. The drawing is begun with simplified forms describing the skull and jawline, then detail quickly developed. She's begun using some hatching to indicate the planes of the jaw and maxilla. Naming the anatomy may be useful but is not as important as the drawing and observation itself.

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• Begin with the Skull
• Skull Study
• Musculature of the Face
• Musculature Study
• Skull and Surface Anatomy
• structure of the neck
• the head in profile

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