Figure Drawing Portrait and Head Drawing

Question 1

According to standard portrait proportions, where do the eyes sit on the head?

Accepted Answer

Roughly at the midpoint of the total head height

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At the top third of the head

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Just above the nose

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At the top quarter of the head

Question 2

What is the width of one eye in relation to the total width of the face at eye level?

Accepted Answer

The face is five eye-widths wide at the eye level

Answer

The face is three eye-widths wide

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The face is two eye-widths wide

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Eye width is unrelated to face width

Question 3

Where does the base of the nose typically fall on the head?

Accepted Answer

Halfway between the eyebrows and the chin

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At the exact midpoint of the whole head

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Level with the ears

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At three-quarters down the face

Question 4

What is the Loomis Method used for in head drawing?

Accepted Answer

Constructing the head in three-quarter view using a sphere and a plane

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Shading techniques

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Mapping facial muscles

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Drawing hair only

Question 5

In portrait drawing, the ear typically aligns between which two horizontal landmarks?

Accepted Answer

The eyebrow and the base of the nose

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Eye level and the bottom of the chin

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The hairline and eye level

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The top of the head and the eye

Question 6

What is the 'brow ridge' and how does it affect light in portrait drawing?

Accepted Answer

It is a bony shelf above the eye socket that casts a shadow over the eyes in most lighting

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It has no visual effect

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It is the term for the eyebrow hair only

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It reflects light upward toward the forehead