HEADS, HANDS & FEET

Note heaviness and roundness of skull

Neck muscles attach behind ears all the way to clavicles

Note deepness of eye sockets and strong protrusion of cheekbones

Kathe Kollwitz

FACIAL FEATURES: Eyes about halfway down head

Bottom half divided in half again at bottom of noseLower one-quarter divided in half again at center of mouth

Large round skull evident with view from above

Note large trapezoidal or wedge-like shape of metacarpals

Each finger bends

Foreshortened hand is flat triangular shape with overlapping oval protrusions making up fingers

Andrea Del Sarto

Look at prominence of heel & ankle bones

Note how ankle sits straight into foot bones

and heel protrudes;

foreshortened foot shows protrusion of ankle

Michelangelo

Albrecht Durer

HOMEWORK: DISTORTION WITH A PURPOSE(drawing by Jim Dine)

Christopher Hohler

Degas

Richard Diebenkorn

Karen Darling