

Scott’s work on Wrath of the Titans click for larger Portraiture and Facial Anatomy is the companion course to Scott’s Anatomy for Artists course, but assumes no knowledge of anatomy as a prerequisite. Only an interest in improving your portraiture skills. Full-enrollment students are also able (and encouraged) to submit personal projects for critique during the course.Īnalyzing contour changes during expression. Typical feedback involves draw-overs of the the student’s assignment, plus pointers for improvement. Level 2: The assignments build on the level 1 exercises and require more free-hand drawing for those comfortable or looking to improve their drawing.įull enrollment students submit their weekly assignments to Scott for feedback and advice.These exercises teach and reinforce the principles of construction which can be used in any medium, but do not require skill in drawing Level 1: These exercises will guide people through the construction of the face and features.Weekly assignments include two levels of difficulty, depending on how comfortable people are with drawing. Practice is essential to internalizing the lessons presented in the course. Over the six weeks the lectures include the following topics:

The course covers all the essential facial anatomy an artist needs to understand and sucessfully create portraits in their chosen medium (drawing, painting, sculpture, animation, etc). Just a quick word to say thanks for putting this course together! I learned more in these six weeks than I did in the last 10 years!

By the end of the course artists will have a deep understanding of the large and small structures that make each face unique and will have the tools to construct the face no matter what their medium of creation. Once the anatomical structures of the face are covered, Scott shows how these are varied and combined to create a portrait of any age, weight, gender, or expression. The course demystifies the art of portraiture by breaking the face down into its fundamental elements of anatomy – the skull and its landmarks, the skeletal muscles of the head, structural fat pads, subcutaneous fat, visible tendons & ligaments, cartilage, and the muscles of expression and how they influence the forms of the face. Portraiture & Facial Anatomy is an intensive six-week course designed to teach artists the critical foundations necessary to accurately depict the human face.
