Portrait Series: Loomis Head

Use this basic head model to position a head at different angles and to keep facial features in correct proportion.

Over the next several weeks I’ll be writing and sharing articles about portrait painting, starting today with an overview of the famous “Loomis head.”

Loomis head

The Loomis head is a basic head model developed by the illustrator Andrew Loomis in the 1940s, to assist with proportioning and positioning heads in p…