Step 4: Establish Central Facial
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The Layout
(Steps 1 through 7)
What the reader will find on these pages is, in fact, the very
painting approach communicated to me by Samuel Edmund Oppenheim
at the Art Students League some thirty-five years ago. I have
dressed it up a bit and added a few frills, but it is the same
direct, simple approach Mr. Oppenheim demonstrated for us in
those years. We begin by making a simple drawing, or "layout"
with the brush... |
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| A single long vertical stroke right down the
center of the face. Curves gently over the convexity of the
head. Think of the seam on a football. A gently curving line
down the middle of the face. This line allows you to position
the landmarks of the face. |
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