I’m not sure if this counts as anatomy, but it’s linked to the book *Figure Drawing: Design and Invention*. It’s essentially a parallel approach to drawing: while construction deals with primary, secondary, and tertiary forms, in sculpture we handle them as masses. The concept comes from Burne Hogarth’s anatomy book, which uses nine secondary masses—that guy really has a thing for the number nine. Additionally, in his course, Michael Hampton proposes anatomy as the next step after construction; this is where tertiary masses (muscles) come into play, alongside Hogarth’s book on the head. It’s the perfect excuse to incorporate the Loomis head method for the primary masses (cranial and facial). I’m not exactly sure what I’m aiming for, but I started this around the same time the course came out; while I work with forms in drawing, I use masses for the sculpture. Cheers.

We did it! We finished the course!

Made it to the end! (Not counting the bonus lessons.) This method translated extremely well with my more stylized way of drawing! The only thing that changed was proportions. Below is a before and after. The first one is from early January this year, and the second one is from today. My portraits feel more structured and less like paper stretched around a mannequin head.

Finally made it to the end (minus the bonus lessons), and I just wanna say that this course is great and really clicked with me in a way that other explanations for portraiture and head invention didn't. I too like to know the why's of structure, and having the exact forms/structures explained was very helpful. Thank you for the course, Mr. Hampton.

Congrats to y’all! 🤗 we did it

thanks for this course, i learned a lot

Thank you so much for sharing your experience and wisdom in this. It has helped me tremendously.

Thank you very much, also for those encouraging words.

Thank you very much Michael! I love how you've structured the course and explained the individual steps, the course is very enriching!

Thanks @Michael Hampton! After going around in circles with Portrait drawings for the last couple of year I think your course finally click enough for me not to just learn a rote process, but to actually start developing my own process. I'm sure there are many who feel the same way, so thank you for that! My only parting questions is about the final step is any drawing process, a finished piece. While you give guidance on where to take this from a next step, I assume most of us are taking course like this to create better final pieces. Is it your opinion that after, say, we put down shading, that now a piece would be in final Rendering and Detailing phase? If that is the case, is it just a matter of final steps are fairly universal and\or medium specific (graphite, oil, digital, etc...) so mentioning them here is beyond the scope? Before year's I'm going to start trying to actually do monthly completed pieces in Graphite and I'm kind of look at how to bridge the last part of this process with a final product, so all advice is welcome.