I found this at a thrift store a while ago and thought it'd be something people might be interested in having some nice, high-res photos of for reference.

Artists often like to reduce organic forms to something simpler, to make them easier to grasp, and reducing the complex, rounded surfaces of the human body to a relatively small number of planes can greatly clarify its relationship to space and to light. Similarly, when we apply light to a figure, a strong light will make the patterns of light and dark clearer than a diffuse one. For realist artists at least, the important thing is understanding what happens in nature so that we can…

I originally sculpted this study of the Asaro Planes of the Head (made by John Asaro www.planesofthehead.com) quite a few years ago and made it available to download. I had lost that ZTL on an old computer, but very recently found a backup on an external HDD. I've spent a little bit of time fixing and cleaning up the sculpt and wanted to make it available to download again (SEE BELOW). It's still not perfect, but I hope someone finds it useful. - You can follow the link below to download…