Our drawing class has an exercise on facial outlines, and I need to label my sketches. Oval and oblong are the two descriptions I find hardest to separate in a simplified sketch. My aim is to record the proportions I see, without treating any outline as the ideal. I have oval face shape on my reading list for the terminology. Would you mark the widest area first, then compare the overall length with the width? A couple of comparison lines would fit, but a dense measurement grid would obscure the drawing. The jaw and forehead also need separate notes so that the label does not hide their differences. I would appreciate a worked drawing example rather than a collection of celebrity comparisons. The assignment asks for a reasoned description, so simply writing a category name will not be enough. How do you keep the description useful when the sketch does not fit one category neatly? |