I found this at a thrift store a while ago and thought it’d be something people might be interested in having some nice, high-res photos of for reference. Arno is an amalgam of the Loomis planes and a ‘planes of the head’ sculpture by John Asaro. Asaro was, as far as I can gather, a student of. Documents Similar To Planes of the Head – John Asaro. Anatomy Intro. Uploaded by. vinicius Successful Portrait Painting. John H. Sanden. Uploaded by.
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There basically two clashing schools in arts training. Firstly, I made a few small maquettes with Plasticine, a few inches oc. It is essential to know anatomy and the canons of facial proportion, period. I just use common or garden sketch books. I had a life sculpture made of my own head once, you know, the kind where they put straws up your nose and cover you with some kind of gel. December 19th, Hi Sharon, I highly recommend you try a bit of sculpture.
Planes of the Head – Artist’s Mannequin Head
This head is by Bernini, and I found the exercise interesting enough to try out a few more. I imagine the thought and work involved in making your own head pays off quite well in terms of retaining a basic idea of how to draw a well proportioned head. The last one at the bottom right was something of an experiment.
The difference is not a matter of approach really, but a philosophy. I take it that it shows you the structure underneath, in the same way that the study of anatomy does? Loomis, clearly, could do both, work from sight, work from imagination.
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Feeling the Form – Loomis and the Planes of the Head
They have a camera tripod thread at the base for mounting. Hi Keith, Thanks for letting us know about the Faragasso book.
He is a friend of John Asaro and uses the Asaro head in his teachings. For every Michelangelo there were thousands of jobbing artisans. Yes, the tiny observations are important, but ths should search for why jobn are there. Students and teachers can also quote images or text for their non-commercial school activity. What brought this into sharp focus for me was getting to the section of the book where Loomis starts to deal with the planes of the head.
January 17th, planew, I share my work, my evolving process and what knowledge I’ve gained on my own learning journey here, in the hope that it might help you along on yours. September 11th, But then, if you look at late 19th century French academic work, it certainly appears to be more true to life than earlier classical work, as if an tue of realism axaro being blended with classicism.
I thought it might be interesting to take an old master drawing and see if I could superimpose the planes on it, feel the form of the head rather than copying the drawing. The cranium is a ball with the sides sliced off. Looking Out, Looking In Please note New Users will have their posts moderated for a while. Hi Linda, thanks for the comment, some very good points you raised there. They also felt a lot better under the pencil.
When I was drawing a head,I had a new, much clearer conception of the three dimensionality of the form I was describing with two dimensional lines.
Have heae seen this article on the history of sight size? A happy new year to you to, and to everyone else.
It takes some practice a lot, in fact to get used to, but it fits like the pieces of a beautiful dream to me, at least. In the long run, it compromises the quality of the work. It might comfort you to know that I gave Arno a moment of silence by the bin when he met his end. June 17th, I don’t want to risk getting banned or anything so if this is inappropriate I apologize in advance and please delete the post. Are you studying with Jeffery Watts?
This is a great advice James. I had the same experience as you with Loomis Paul, and I too suspected that he first learnt how to draw and then subtracted these ideas after the fact. A large proportion of the smaller galleries, it seems to me, are selling work to clients who want something to match their sofa. And of course we generally only read about the very greatest personalities of a given age, the exceptions. It must be a very good way of ensuring that the large forms are laid in correctly first, and keeping from getting tied up detail too early in a drawing.
Paul, Thanks planez your thoughts and the references to those sites, which I did not know plannes will begin to explore. I was discussing this some time ago with a highly accomplished artist David Kassan — check out those paintings! Looking at history, artists have taken many different roles depending largely on the social milieu they were a part of.
Partly because he glazed a lot, but also because he only trusted what was down on the canvas if it was exactly how he saw it through the camera obscura.