Few head drawing techniques have influenced artists as deeply as the Loomis Method. It breaks the skull into a sphere with a flattened side, then uses that underlying structure to place features accurately in any perspective.

His books went out of print for decades and artists never stopped sharing them. That’s how foundational this knowledge is. Now explore it interactively in three dimensions.

Rotate the model from any angle, add and reposition lights, switch between orthographic and perspective views, and adjust the background to isolate form and shadow.

When the structure feels solid, the Planes of the Head takes detail up a notch.