The page discusses artistic techniques for positioning and drawing the head when viewed from the back. It includes methods for aligning facial features like the nose and ears in drawing, using specified lines and proportions. The instructions provide guidance for achieving accurate proportions and perspectives, ensuring the artistic rendering is balanced and clear.
226 Artistic Facial Position.
Seen rules and methods associated with this. It should be easy to understand that this method works well if you align through the means of a straight line.
Third Example, showing the placement of the Head, viewed from the back.
How to position a head viewed from the back.
The outlined ABCD is the Oval of a head viewed from the back; where, as before, AC and BD are the Middle Lines or Diameters. You aim to position a head on that same plane so you see it from the back in Drawing and Proportion, as per the completed Example next to it: Proceed as follows: Provide beneath and above the horizontal line BD half the height of the nose, like EF. And let F be the point from which to extend a circle of the upper part of the Head B.A.D. so that the jaw aligns properly. As the fixed Line, and the outline of the formed Example, clearly indicates. To create the Ears now (seen only from the back here, which is shown beyond its position), draw GK. Extending outside the Oval as long, equal to the width from DG, and apply this equally to EI but only half; draw Kin I, and the Ear is set for trimming and refining through the Artistic Line drawing to finalize it, so that in the adjacent Example in relevance to the Neck and the back of the Head can be clearly seen.
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