Life drawing techniques

Head technique

This technique was the first technique I looked at. It is where you measure the head with your thumb and then fit the heads in the body. To begin with I made a dot at where the heads would come to and remembers a certain part of the body that the mark was near. I set this out for each of my sketches within life drawing after a few sketches I started become more confident and started to do it in my head, this worked well for standing but when I came to an awkward position I had to reverse back to making the marks to ensure that the measurements were right and after doing that for a couple went back to doing it in my head. For me this technique worked best. I think it may have something to do with it being the first technique I used and just stuck with it and had more practice with it or just that im quite mathematical minded and the measuring with the head came easier that the other techniques.