Neckin'

Watched a video on the neck, these doodles aren't that great.  It was nice and handy to learn about various parts of the neck and how they fit together.  Mainly cylindrical-based shapes.  I didn't know the hyoid bone existed until today!

I didn't bother to post this one earlier, I didn't take this any further.  I kind of like the thumbnail view of it, but not the enlarged version.

More Head Stuff

Another tutorial night.  It focused on muscles that affect the lips, the mouth area and looked at the ears a bit too.

The way of defining the beginnings of a face with a 'T' shape was used by Michaelangelo (or so the man in the video tells me..), where the horizontal defines the brow (not the eye center, like I'd previously thought), and the vertical the nose.

The top of the ear in relation to the corner of the eyesocket is a good way of determining the orientation of the head.  When viewed in profile, the line that connects the top-front part of the ear (where it attaches to the head) and the eyes is at the halfway point down the head.

Facial Anatomy Lesson

The only drawing I've done today.  I watched a lesson on facial anatomy.  I'll probably need to watch it again at some point, could have paid it better attention than I did.  Even so, I think it really improved my understanding of the forms that comprise the head.

Here are some of the main points I remember:

-the basic forms of the face have key points defining them (like how you can easily define a cube by it's vertices)

-the corners of the eyesockets and cheekbones form a rectangle; from these points going to the back of the head a fairly flat plane is formed on either side of the head

-when defining the eyebrow/nose area, there's a specific number of points a person has here (creating planes/lines inbetween these points), these points are arranged in a large variety of ways between people

-the basic mouth area shape is very similar to a half sphere; the teeth are arrayed in a u-shape, a lot narrower than you may think at first

-a way of thinking about drawing the lips is imagining a bird with wings spread sitting on top of an egg

-basic skull shape is egg-like, wider at the back than the front; the profile of the head fits nicely into a rectangular shape that can be divided to place the features of the face (general placement)
(half-way down are the center of the eyes, half-way from eyebrows (not the eyes!) to chin is the bottom of the nose, half-way between the nose bottom and chin is the bottom of the lower lip)

-thickest part of the nose connects at the cheekbone

-the nostrils are basically cup shaped, with a very large variety of nostril sizes, shapes and orientations

-the end of the nose cartilage tapers to a point; the cartilage forms a triangle as it meets the cheekbone on either side

-there's a small change of plane direction between the nose and eyesocket, resulting in value change

-the outer corners of the eyesockets and the eyebrows are often mistaken as the same thing, the eyesocket fits into the bottom of the brow

-the eyelid, while thin, still has a thickness that should be defined; various folds can occur where the eyelid meets the eyesocket and cheekbone

(I should do this with the other tutorials I have..)

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I suppose I don't really have any explanation for this.