skull in profile. my sketching looks very rushed when i compare it to people on here!! maybe i should slow down
Hmmm.... a
caucasoid skull.... While we're on the topic of skull construction... I'm in the mood to ramble...
I started learning this through Andrew Loomis, but first thing I notice when looking at Andrew Loomis' advice on skulls was the implicit racism. It was advised to draw ideally-beautiful faces to make illustrations that 'sell', and his faces were very clearly 'white', and so were their skulls. I grew up around a rather colorful variety of people of different racial backgrounds, and the implicit racism from a book written so long ago sticks out a bit.
If it helps, you could pay closer attention to the variety of skull shapes, and they can be classically divided into three major types: The Caucasoid skull in Europeans, North Africans, and those from the Middle-east and the Indian subcontinent. Negroid skulls from sub-saharan Africa, and the Mongoloid skulls from Central and East Asia, and the Americas.
Careful of these rigid archetypes though... East Africans tend to have more Caucasoid-like facial features than Africans from other regions (prob because of interracial relationships with the Middle East), and from personal observations as a Chinese American, the Japanese have sharper faces, and those from Southeast Asia can have longer jaws when what I normally see from people of my racial background. Some googling also tells me of three additional subcategories of Caucasoid skulls, but they are not things I could know in-person as White Americans have all integrated into one white race. I'd imagine that somebody from Europe may have a sharper eye for racial differences as people are varied enough to not be integrated into one race and ethnicity.
(This is dangerous research though, I've bump into a lot of questionably 'scientific' racism along the way as I start looking this up.)
I've seen many drawings of people of very ambiguous racial backgrounds though I can imagine it may matter for different artists more than others. The things I wish to one day do in the future though, this would matter
quite a bit.
While I'm looking at how Japanese anime's get the construction of African skulls absurdly wrong, hey.... I think if I wanna be looking at how a cartoon stylization of African faces are to be done,
the Boondocks, I find, is a very convincing example.