Planar Head Portrait Drawing w/ Gary Geraths (Otis College)

wt type of pencil did he use

There are no magic pencils. Any pencil would do, Carbon, Crayon, Pastel, Sepia, Charcoal are all suitable for portraits. What is important in this video is to learn the basic principles in getting the proportions correct and capturing the likeness

this is great stuff, ppl who says its complicated must realze that this is needed to produce a realistic head accurately.

This is more a Scholastic aproach, or studio approach to doing structural drawing... This is just for practice. I agreee about the Howard Sanden comment though. With a few strokes you can make a wonderful rendering!

it will actually enhance your creativity and expression, Drawing is hard i struggle with it too and ive really only been doing for almost two years. But I think you could do it.

There is a certain amount of good that can come from studying the figure (or head) geometrically like this. It gives you a good conceptual basis for rendering the light upon the face.

Too often I've found that this approach leads to inaccuracies in the drawing, and a rigidity that is uncomfortable to the eye.

John Howard Sanden shows an absolutely great approach to drawing that lends much more believability to the finished product

OMg he makes it look sooo complicated!!!!errr

Excellent analytical approach to drawing. Extremely handy, even for newbies like myself. It would be great if there was a demonstration on how to draw other body parts in similar fashion. I'm struggling with anatomy right now, because the muscles I draw look kind of flat, but it becomes so much easier when you break things into planes.

This video deserves a better rating.
This is one of the strongest fundamentals of drawing the head.
Great work!