Drawing the Head and Hands Quotes

“No matter how great your talent, talent has to work with knowledge to do anything well.”
― Andrew Loomis, Drawing the Head and Hands

“Skill is the ability to overcome obstacles, the first of which is usually lack of knowledge about the thing we wish to do. Skill is the result of trying again and again, applying our ability and proving our knowledge as we gain it.”
― Andrew Loomis, Drawing the Head and Hands

“The thing to remember is that the skull is fixed in position, and, with the exception of the jaw, immovable, and that the flesh is mobile and ever-changing, and also affected by health, emotion, and age.

After the skull is fully matured, it remains the same through life and is a structural foundation for the varying appearance of the flesh.”
― Andrew Loomis, Drawing the Head and Hands

“No "knack" of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge.”
― Andrew Loomis, Drawing the Head and Hands