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Taaroth · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 12:05 pm

Does Anyone know how to draw a sphere and divide it in 4 freehand?
Because i would like to construct spheres before drawing heads, but i don't know how to divide it (i looked at the Fun With A pencil of Andrew Loomis but it didn't help :/)

BloodStone · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 2:26 pm

Is this what you mean? I dug this up from an old calculus assignment.

BloodStone · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 2:27 pm

Ack, sorry. I didn't read your message completely. Don't pay attention to the upper half of that drawing.

egerie · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 2:20 pm

I'm taking a break and whipped that together quickly for you. I'm not too good with words especially when spent so... voil� ! If you need explanations, shout

That's roughly how I do it tho. Works wonders when you want to make bowls in perspective for example.

Zen_Drag0n · junior member Member # Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3

Don't use spheres for heads. Use ovoids. Faces are longer than they are wide. Go back through the Loomis books, good stuff. If you still can't dig that, then goto the library and book store and get a book like Dynamic Anatomy by that Hogarth fellow. His stuff isn't the best, but it has decent explanations of how to divide the sections of face and forshorten and so on. I think he may even have a book specifically on heads in his Dynamic series. I forget.

Torstein Nordstrand · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 7:10 pm

Here's a snapshot of the book in question, "Drawing the Human Head" by Burne Hogarth. (Who I'm sure would forgive me if somebody bought his book after seeing this).

BloodStone · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 2:16 pm

Well, if you're having trouble drawing ovals like this, I wouldn't rush right into drawing faces.

Taaroth · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 8:24 am

Zen Dragon >Thanks again, but I already have every Hogarth Books , but the method of Loomis is, i think, a better way to go : a sphere is not so difficult to draw lol, to divide, and is not used to draw e head, but just the top of the head (in french it is called 'crane'), and then you draw the face

egerie > thanks that confirm what i thought, even if you don't explain how to drow the axis and ellipses of the sphere when you look up or down at it. And How to draw a median ellipse
Here's the method i want to do to draw heads :http://www.anticz.com/heads.htm
see that the better i will draw a well-divised sphere the better i will draw heads !

here's an exemple of what i did from that method...Yes I Know, i must train and train and train...http://site.voila.fr/fightclubrpg/crokitete.jpg