Choose Your Subject and Prepare Your Materials.
In this demonstration on the planes of a subject, a palm and a deer skull have been chosen. This still
life is viewed from a high vantage point in order to create a composition that fans out across most
of the sheet of paper. This creates the opportunity to display the beautiful characteristics of the
plant. Try to find similar, somewhat complex objects for your own setup.The deer skull is a fascinating form to draw. This is the most complex object that we have drawn so far in this book, with its
many shifts of form from one plane to the next and its considerable detail.
The palm has less obvious planes, and for that reason, it is difficult to find its internal structure. This will create the opportu-
nity to give form to a complex object through simplifying it into basic geometric facets.