100 Heads

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About 100 Heads

The 100 Heads project started as a summer project set to the illustration students at Norwich School of Art and Design in 2007.The aim of the project was to address the problem of slipping into same same old tried and tested formulas when drawing human face (dots for eyes and ticks for noses).The challenge is to produce a series of 100 heads each one different from the last.By the end of summer 2007 the 60 illustration students had amassed a collection of 6000 heads .We spend a day with in one of the corridors at college at college.It was an impressive catalogue of different ways of drawing heads' selection of these made it to my flickr stream which had generated a lot of interest.I have had request from people wanting to do the project themselves.

The 100 Heads group is a chance to join in with the project,

head - the part of the body above the neck that contains the eyes, nose, mouth and ears and the brain.

This project is about exploring new ways of representing the human head. Using observation and imagination develop through a series of a hundred drawings a range of alternative methods for dealing with the various components that make up the human head and for considering the head as a whole. As you draw try and make each head a completely different response from the previous. You can address this through your choice of medium or by establishing a set of rules for the treatment of each head. Before you start establish a format for your heads, a hundred pieces of paper all the same size, or you may wish to make sets of heads that explore different formats and media.

Robert Shadbolt