DR. FACE : Drawn into LIFE!
Gary Faigin
Facial Expression Expert + Blogger, Artist, Author of "Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expressions"
Just what the doctors ordered! I was the featured Guest Speaker at a national conference of plastic and reconstructive eye surgeons (ASOPRS) in New Orleans this past week. While I may obsess over the finer details of lids and brows in my drawings, the conference attendees are surgical artists who do the same work in a much messier medium. You want them to get it right when they repair orbital blow-out fractures and reconstruct upper eyelid defects!
My presentation, "A Demonstration of Drawing Vivid Expressions," was done completely with digital drawings produced in real time on my new tablet. I focused on the effect of smiling mouths on the action of the eyes and eyebrows, showing both good and bad examples. It was neat to develop multi-layered drawings, projected onto three giant screens, for 800 medical professionals to watch! And, I heard that my artistic explanation of the elements of facial expression provided a useful new perspective for these specialized eye surgeons to add to the tools in their doctors' bags.
Medical-illustration.com -Art that works for a living
7 年Cool, Gary Faigin : Yes, facial surgeons of all flavors need this type of guideline in their head, and the most-analyzed region is in the eyes. Ophthalmic Plastic and Orbital surgeons have challenges driven by both data and art. Reconstructive surgeons over the entire body need targets to aim toward (beyond anatomical/functional success), and dynamics are especially important in the face. Congrats for demonstrating IRT. While MANY systems have been proposed as “ideal,” the patient benefits most from the surgeon-artist (and prosthetist) seeking to achieve a natural *balance, rather than any rigid measurement.
Animator at Firaxis
7 年I think a future trend should be encouraging people to get facial and body 3d laser scans when they are healthy around 20 years old. Then people who want or need reconstruction will have a perfect model with a wide range of scanned expressions to draw from.