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One fundamental taught in advanced classes is that perfect symmetry is death. Real faces are asymmetrical; stylized faces often hide asymmetry in the features while keeping the silhouette symmetrical.
Homework: Create a facial proportion chart for three different artists you admire. Reverse engineer their ratios. You are not copying their style; you are stealing their math.
Before stylizing, students must demonstrate competency in:
| Skill | Application to Stylized Work | |-------|-----------------------------| | Planes of the face | Knowing where to add or remove shadows for graphic impact | | Proportion (Loomis, Reilly) | Recognizing which features to lengthen or compress | | Value control (5-value system) | Creating contrast without photographic gradation | | Color mixing (limited palettes) | Tuning skin tones toward thematic hues |
Class Exercise: Paint one realistic grisaille (gray-scale) portrait from a photo reference. Then, on a tracing overlay, circle three features to stylize (e.g., eyes enlarged, jaw squared, nose simplified).