The Yearbook Principle
The Yearbook Principle
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Portrait Painting in Oil Without a Brain

Observational Drawing

The yearbook principle is one of those essential ideas to understanding how to get a good likeness. 

Your assignment for this lesson is to pull out your yearbook and just try to observe what I'm talking about. 

What part of someone's likeness can you get rid of while still having the image look like them?

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