That is rather idealised, like the ancient Greeks did it, with those eights. In reality a head will often be closer to a seventh of the total body length, if it is not even bigger.
When I started college, I was a fashion design major. We had this, using the female figure though. A more stylized version added an extra head height. We also made tracings of our bodies on rolls of newsprint. Divided the sections and analysed the proportions. Were we long-waisted or long-legged? That sort of thing. (Not as comparison to others, but as self awareness so to better fit/style our clothes.) Figured out how to use our body to measure a yard, a foot and an inch. I switched majors, but still glad I know those things and still use them in my art.
Swissmiss is an online garden Tina Roth Eisenberg started in 2005 and has lovingly tended to ever since.
Besides swissmiss, Tina founded and runs TeuxDeux, CreativeMornings and her Brooklyn based co-working community Friends Work Here. (She also started Tattly which was recently adopted by BIC)
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That is rather idealised, like the ancient Greeks did it, with those eights. In reality a head will often be closer to a seventh of the total body length, if it is not even bigger.
Apr 23rd, 2018 / 8:52 am
When I started college, I was a fashion design major. We had this, using the female figure though. A more stylized version added an extra head height. We also made tracings of our bodies on rolls of newsprint. Divided the sections and analysed the proportions. Were we long-waisted or long-legged? That sort of thing. (Not as comparison to others, but as self awareness so to better fit/style our clothes.) Figured out how to use our body to measure a yard, a foot and an inch. I switched majors, but still glad I know those things and still use them in my art.
Apr 26th, 2018 / 11:15 am