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Form of the Head and Neck

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Face is formed
by more than
just muscles

  • How age, ethnicity, gender, and body type affect the form of one's face​
  • Relationship between the visible appearance and the anatomy beneath it​
  • Understand anatomy visually through 3D models and photos with color-coding​
  • Form development from simple block-outs to detailed realistic shapes
  • The topography of the face and skull​
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Visual artists
are visual thinkers!

There is a chance you have discovered this by now: facial muscles are just one factor that defines the form of one’s face. 

Form of the Head and Neck explains the relationship between the person’s visible appearance and the anatomy beneath it.

From simple
to complex

Visual and image information, including 3D models, photos, and color-coding, is an essential part of all our books, and this one is no exception.

Text where necessary, thus keeping the experience simple, intuitive, and widely accessible.

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Why we look
the way we do

When we use references – live models and photos – we essentially try to copy nature. Yet, the key to success isn’t copying the form but understanding how it is composed.

Form of the Head and Neck will help you learn how to break down the complex organic forms into basic shapes to understand them better. This knowledge gives incredible creative liberty to an artist.

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Face is an ever-changing structure

Which makes modeling or drawing it full of challenges. Faces are rarely static and, besides emotions, other factors make them look different from one another. Factors like age, ethnicity, gender, body type and a little bit of anatomy.

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How the
form is created

In most cases, facial muscles are not the ones that define the form of one’s face. This book will help you understand the relationship between the face’s visible appearance and the anatomy beneath it.

Expand your creativity

What exactly makes a person’s face look older or more masculine? Is it the nasolabial fold? Or perhaps it could be the jawline? Form of the Head and Neck answers these questions!

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Industry expert
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Tiago Rios

Character Artist

– Santa Monica Studio

The book gives literally hundreds of easy tips for new and experienced sculptors interested…

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Yuri Alexander​

Sr. Staff Character Artist

– Sony Bend

Anatomy for sculptors is the clearest and most comprehensive anatomy reference material that I have seen…

Full review

Frederic Daoust

Senior Character Artist

– Epic Games

Anatomy for Sculptors books are my go to references for whenever I’m sculpting a character…

Full review
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Tiago Rios

Tiago Rios

Character Artist

– Santa Monica Studio

The book gives literally hundreds of easy tips for new and experienced sculptors interested in pursuing their anatomy studies but not sure how to begin.

To me, the most helpful section was the head and legs, the head for its complexity and amount of very tiny muscles composing it; the legs for its shapes and silhouette. 

The book doesn`t only teach you the name of the muscles but more importantly shows you how the muscles interact to form the big forms.

- artstation.com/tiagorios
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Yuri Alexander

Sr. Staff Character Artist

– Sony Bend

Anatomy for sculptors is the clearest and most comprehensive anatomy reference material that I have seen.

Their topological drawings, anatomy diagrams, and kinesiology examples do a better job of simplifying and breaking down the human body into understandable forms than any other resource available.

I use their work as reference to help clarify anatomy on every human I sculpt.

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Frederic Daoust

Senior Character Artist

– Epic Games

Anatomy for Sculptors books are my go to references for whenever I’m sculpting a character. 

The books have all the information I need as a sculptor and are super well organized to easily find whatever area of the body I am working on. The way they simplify shapes to help modelers understand them in three dimensions is something I haven’t seen done that well in other anatomy references books and that I find particularly helpful. 

I highly recommend those books to anyone looking to learn anatomy or for any sculptor  to have on hand to quickly find specific anatomy references. 

- artstation.com/fredericdaoust23
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