Human Head Construction. Part 1 – The Human Skull

After creating two paints, I am back with a pencil medium with this week's task to reinforce the knowledge of the construction of the human head with skull from observation.

Set up

Process

I first start with a small thumbnail of the direction of the skull, then immediately draw a rough sketch of the skull's shape.

While looking at the skull, I first sketch the outside shapes of the cheekbones and jaw before adding details inside.

I got a feedback that the skull was too round, so I flatten the top [art of the head after an observation o the reference.

I fixed the jaw that was coming out too much and changed the shape of the eye to bee less round.

I began shading the skull with the cross-hatching technique.

I was finished and ready to create the background so I immediately start shading the background black. I was stopped, however, with the feedback that the background should not be all back and for me to try making the background in photoshop first before adding it on paper

I did and create a rough background in photoshop and decided which area I should leave white

Final Piece

A3 size sketchbook, pencils 2B – 6B, eraser, putty rubber

The incorporation of digital and traditional on my work lately has been a huge help. The background hatching came out as I wanted with the only part I would like to improve was the skull detail itself, apart from that I am content with what I got this week.