Varying racial characteristics

Torch

Hey all, I've been working on gathering some reference for varying facial anatomy, anything from african, asian (oriental as well) to western as I noticed there's a lot of things to take into account when working on varied heads, e.g. size of the lips, curvature of areas of the face, slant of the eyes, etc.

I wanted to ask if anyone could recommend good resources similar to stuff like 3DSK, maybe documents/sites that show different facial structures based on race from a traditional art perspective (or even photography) would be awesome. Thanks :thumbup:

ExcessiveZero

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=f2Ca-m0MjagC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=racial+anatomy+face+differences&source=bl&ots=VnUUcWEj1p&sig=TXGmHm7bYM5q-odM8liaB2UmQ2E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bXI4U97iNLTT7AacvYDYBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=racial%20anatomy%20face%20differences&f=false

found a sample chapter (3) of this book which apparently includes facial anatomy with race sex and age.

disanski

I got this [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Face-Visual-Reference-Multi-ethnic-Modeling/dp/024082394X/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396208669&sr=1-6&keywords=Face+It"]book [/ame]and it is just amazing. Some of the images are a little too dark for my taste but overall the quality is very good and it has a lot of examples and measurements from different heads and sculls of different genders and ethnicities. Check it out.

Joao Sapiro

why not just google faces of different races and study those ? nothing better than study with real life photographs and not drawings.

2cat

Here's a cool pinterest with 2k faces:

http://www.pinterest.com/ybourykina/faces/

ZacD

There's a lot of measurements and studies done on this, some quick google results are http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0041193 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anthropometry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_anthropology

MrHobo

This is a great tumblr for a variety of face and ethnicities.

http://humanae.tumblr.com/

Makkon

Some awesome resources on here, thanks for the links guys!

Torch

Hey thanks for the replies, those links are great! Also disanski thanks for recommending that, have just ordered a copy, looks pretty sweet.

PyrZern

Sweeet. Thanks for the links folks.