The skull is a rather complicated construction, butnovice artist does not hurt to know its construction. After all, this knowledge in the future will help to draw portraits from different angles, especially if these portraits are fictional, not sketched. Therefore, this article will be devoted to how to draw a skull in stages. Of course, you will need a piece of paper, a pencil and a soft eraser. It is very desirable that the "nature" is also present: so you can choose the best angle and view the details. In addition, if you seriously decide to do drawing, it will not hurt you to "fill" the hand on the skull, drawing it from different sides.
Before you draw a skull with a pencil, do notforget that it has volume. Smooth lines of construction will fit, if you will draw a skull directly. In the position unfolded by three quarters, these lines will shift (according to the law of perspective) and will acquire curved shapes. However, let's get down to the task of how to draw a skull. First you need to draw an axial horizontal line (axis of symmetry). At the initial stage, this axis will determine the height of the future image. Next, divide the axis into three parts using thin horizontal lines. Focusing on them, schematically throws the eye sockets, the nasal cavity, the mouth area.
The next step to how to draw a skull,there will be an easy, yet sketchy, outline of its contours with respect to parts of the “face”. Try to ensure that these contours are neither too far from them, nor too close. Not that the skull will look deformed. Check your drawing with nature more often, try to keep proportions. It is easy to do. For example, if it seems to you that you have depicted too large eye sockets, then you can check them with the original. To do this, take your pencil strictly vertically and, closing one eye and stretching out your hand, move it to the object. The figures below show how this is done. In our case, the object is the eye socket. Fix the height of the pencil on the pencil.
Continuing to keep the pencil fixedthe height of the orbit, calculate how many times this height fits in the height of the entire skull. That is, imagine that the original also has an axis in the middle. Move the stretched hand with a pencil in this way (the eye is still closed and you don’t need to approach nature) so that the fixing finger is at the level of the chin. Visually mark at which point of the axis the point of the pencil is located, then move your hand up a bit so that the fixing finger is now at this point. Do the same manipulation until you reach the top of the head. Now that you have done the calculation in kind, do the same in your drawing. On that extra piece that you have left after the measurement, and you should reduce the height of the sockets. This way you can easily and as accurately determine the ratio of the values of absolutely any items.
