- Unknown Binding: 156 pages
- Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications; [1st ed.] edition (1965)
- ASIN: B0006BLZBG
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Among all the subjects which the art student is called upon to draw, none is more complex than the human head. Read the first page
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For artists who want to get up to speed with drawing heads, Drawing the Human Head will get you creating them in no time.
There are six sections in the book. The first illustrates and describe the basic head structure -- bones, form and proportion -- and the major features on the head. One has to note that Burne Hogarth's drawing for heads are a bit stylised. So they are not 100% realistic in that sense.
Section 2 is probably why you're buying the book for. Here, a simple model is introduced for drawing heads. It is actually the one that's shown on the cover. It helps to locate features on the head in any angle easily, and makes basic construction from memory a breeze.
In section 4, there are drawings of heads from babies to old men, showing the wrinkles and sagging skin. Section 5 talks about head types and presents a gallery of heads highlighting the features of people from different countries. The last section 6 looks at some sculptures and paintings from old masters, interesting but not necessary.
Overall, this is really a speedy guide to learning head drawing. But for truly realistic heads, you have to look elsewhere.
4 out of 5 starts. Recommended for the beginner artists.
(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
There are six sections in the book. The first illustrates and describe the basic head structure -- bones, form and proportion -- and the major features on the head. One has to note that Burne Hogarth's drawing for heads are a bit stylised. So they are not 100% realistic in that sense.
Section 2 is probably why you're buying the book for. Here, a simple model is introduced for drawing heads. It is actually the one that's shown on the cover. It helps to locate features on the head in any angle easily, and makes basic construction from memory a breeze.
In section 4, there are drawings of heads from babies to old men, showing the wrinkles and sagging skin. Section 5 talks about head types and presents a gallery of heads highlighting the features of people from different countries. The last section 6 looks at some sculptures and paintings from old masters, interesting but not necessary.
Overall, this is really a speedy guide to learning head drawing. But for truly realistic heads, you have to look elsewhere.
4 out of 5 starts. Recommended for the beginner artists.
(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm a big fan of Hogarth, and this book, like his other instructional drawing books, is superb, covering anatomy, ageing and wrinkles, different types of heads including different racial features, and hundreds of great reference drawings of full heads and individual features. If you're looking for a more general book, "Dynamic Figure Drawing" is far better, but if you want to go into detail with heads and features this is a good purchase.
My only disappointment with it was that, though it covered everything else about the face in detail, it did not cover facial expressions, despite dancing around the subject. I'll probably look for another book on that subject, but it seems a strange omission to me as it would be a natural extension of the discussion of the facial muscle system, and I would very much have liked to see Hogarth cover it.
My only disappointment with it was that, though it covered everything else about the face in detail, it did not cover facial expressions, despite dancing around the subject. I'll probably look for another book on that subject, but it seems a strange omission to me as it would be a natural extension of the discussion of the facial muscle system, and I would very much have liked to see Hogarth cover it.
4 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
From the author who wrote the very helpful Drawing Dynamic Hands, this book is a good addition to his other titles.
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