11-21-2015, 07:33 AM
If you're trying to study how light hits and affects the head, then I would first look at the anatomy of the head (IMPORTANT: get down all the names of the bones and muscles first) and then planes of the face. If you go into this without any of that knowledge, you'll have a hard time understanding why the light is hitting certain areas. That is why some teachers have you start out by rendering simple flat surface shapes like spheres, boxes, and cones first; because there are no underlying features in them.