The Human Head

In the mid nineteenth century Prof. Louis Bail was the pre-eminent advocate for teaching drawing in the schools and established a famous system of Drawing Charts to facilitate the adoption of drawing in all schools through out the country. His system was based on a series of sequential exercises taking the student through levels of both seeing of forms and reproducing them on paper.This book is the next step for students, to bring all that they have learned to the drawing of the human head. Following the example of the Drawing Charts the lessons proceed from outlining the head, placing features on the head in proportion, then to drawing character and emotion.It is the system that is derived from the lessons of the old masters, and its widespread adoption influenced just about everyone who wrote a book on drawing the human head since. Read more