/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3427653
Loomis's head construction is simplified and meant to work with the feature-relation plaque every portrait artist was working with at the time because he never expected anyone to want to drastically modify the shape and sice of features. When he was writing his books Snow White was a novelty, animation wasn't a real industry and cartooning was a racist thing of the past.
Reilly developed a more personalizable set of facial planes that not only have stronger correlations but has been found to be much more malleable and apt for cartooning and animation. Looking at it you get reminded of the facial topography of 3D models in a way that Loomis just never could. And treating it as such a topographical wireframe you can adapt it to design just the character you want.

Loomis doesn't work for abstraction because a constructive approach to abstraction didn't exist in his time outside of Picasso's early experiments with cubism.