✤ ASARO HEAD

⦿ THE ASARO HEAD METHOD

You might know the Andrew Loomis method of drawing heads, but you might not know the effective and powerful Asaro Head Method.
Hop and in see what it can do for you as an artist!

The Asaro Head is basically a sculpture made by the fine artist John Asaro, created for the sole purpose of simplifying the head into understandable and straightforward planes. 
If you learn and study the Asaro head, you will be able to see how light and shadow falls on any head at any angle. A powerful tool for any artist. And for the cherry on top, you’ll get a more solid construction for your head. 
Isn't that just handy and dandy?

What’s even more handy, is that on the Asaro head you got the simple side, which is the left side, and the complex side, which is the right side. This is basically to show you how the head is constructed in basic forms, getting progressively more complex to the right. This makes it so YOU can choose the side you want to use or study.

This is not an advertisement for the Asaro Head but if you want support the actual creator of the head, you can do so by purchasing it at www.planesofthehead.com

USING THE ASARO HEAD

With knowledge of the Loomis method of drawing heads, where you chop of the ends of a sphere and slap on some clay to get a chin, COMBINED with the Asaro Head method, gets you as an artist, a long way ahead for imaginative head drawing, and also for drawing from reference. 

If you don't know planes of the head, it then seems like you are drawing the features of the face on just a flat surface, you don't get that much depth and form in your heads as you’d like. Luckily the Asaro head gives us this knowledge to play with.

A way for you to study could be to ...

❂ Find a reference of a head
❂ Start drawing from your reference, using the Loomis method of constructing the head, making first a sphere then the jaw of the head. 
❂ Here comes the fun part! Now with your simple Loomis head, take it EVEN FURTHER by using the Asaro head, adding in the planes of head. Remember to make the planes proportionate to the reference.
❂ Now finish the drawing of your head reference adding the small details and features of the face. 

Leave a comment and gladly share your thoughts on what YOU think of the Asaro Head Method. 
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As always thank you for reading!

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