tailieunhanh - Figure Drawing Without A Model - Character and Expression

Tài liệu tham khảo bằng tiếng Anh về nghệ thuật hội họa - Figure Drawing Without A Model - Character and Expression | HAPTER 6 CHARACTER AND EXPRESSION So far in this book we have been dealing almost exclusively with a hypothetical average figure. We have studied its structure and proportions its posture and movement and only briefly mentioned in passing the very evident differences which occur between one individual and another. All human populations show a wide variety of physical structure and proportions and of facial features. But this does not mean that in drawing the human figure we can carelessly perpetrate distortions and inaccuracies which can then be conveniently explained away as the unremarkable anatomical peculiarities one should expect to find in any single human being. Variations in physique and facial appearance occur in quite specific ways and so individuals tend to conform to recognizable physical and facial types - albeit a very wide range of them. Down the centuries scores of scientific and mainly pseudoscientific treatises have been put forward as rational studies of human types. These have commonly claimed that character and fortune may be divined in the form and features of face or hand and the lines thereon or in the specifics of body shape and proportion. Most have now been justifiably forgotten. In this chapter we shall look at the ways in which individuals differ from one another in appearance an understanding of which will enable us to imbue our drawings with character. The Face The playwright Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593 attributed the launching of a thousand ships to Helen of Troy s face and although it seems unlikely that that portion of her anatomy was alone responsible for so much dockyard activity few would deny the singular importance of the face in distinguishing one person from another. If presented with a few portrait photographs almost anyone can be prevailed upon to give an opinion about the personality of each one and these will show a remarkable consensus if the experiment is repeated a number of times. Considering that we all make such