Portrait Drawing Tip 25
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How to sculpt classical busts and heads
To learn how to draw realistic portraits, you can actually sculpt classical busts and heads in clay or plasticine. Practicing sculpture will greatly help in understanding planes of the head, its proportions and anatomy because you will literally do it with your fingers and touch the sculpture at every single point. If you have never sculpted before, it is better to begin with low-polygon heads you can make from paper. Templates of such paper sculptures are provided free of charge to the Life Drawing Academy Correspondence Course students.
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