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

Portrait drawing of a live model's head using a planar head as reference. The planar head shows structural plane changes. Follow the detailed tutorial showing close ups, examples, and tips. Gary Gerath is a professor in the exceptional Foundation Program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• otis
• college
• art
• design
• foundation
• portrait
• drawing
• gary
• geraths
• planar
• head

[summonzygote]

I'm in this teacher's class, actually. And we do measure things out with a pencil against the model himself/herself- nearly all the time. This is a video DEMO. If I were you I wouldn't assume this the only way he teaches things. And last I checked, there is no such thing as 'perfect' or 'exact' proportions, so of course the drawings going to look off.

[gerardrondeau]

superbe démonstration.

[poisonsting8404]

@Poypull The kind you draw with lol

[Poypull]

What pencils is he using I wonder..

[MajorTom18]

Very useful, thankyou! I've always been envious of those cross hatched portraits because I have trouble discerning distinct planes myself. That planar head is a great reference.

[theRedPress]

@EraserKneaded Not offended at all, just was attempting to explain one purpose to learning the underlying structure and form in addition to copying the model. With youtube anyone can become an instructor and get online and teach something in this age, and it's sometimes difficult to discern what is good. So when I find something good I try to explain why it IS good, rather than just call someone an idiot like is more typical on youtube. =D Cheers!

[EraserKneaded]

@theRedPress I think I jumped the gun here. The artist is taking measurements from the model. When I looked at this vid some time ago, I thought I was watching yet another example of someone drawing a basic structure and then altering it to fit the model. Believe it or not, I've seen people do that, taking the structural approach too literally. I was too hasty here and I apologize. I hope I haven't offended.

[theRedPress]

@EraserKneaded Because that's called copying the model...and that's great but that won't teach you how to draw that figure from imagination for example. Deconstructing the figure is a process by which we come to understand the figure, why it looks the way it does, it's not about copying the surface information (although that is another lesson for rendering the quality of a material for example).

So in that sense, it's not about adding more information, it's about explaining it.

[bigbignose]

@EraserKneaded's comments: "You will not have learned to look, see, and draw what you see, the real person." The structural analysis is actually teaching you what to see and observe, kid. Without these basic knowledge, given you a live model in front of you you won't draw right on what you see. You comments only show you didn't have solid training. Be humble and go to kingagarten and let the teacher show you how to hold a pencil. Don't bragging your foolish "insights". LOL