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Private Practice Fulya Teras, Istanbul, Turkey
You cannot perform good surgery unless you draw the organ precisely with the pen. I have been taking drawing courses since 2006, and I am convinced that it has improved my surgery results. Drawing increases awareness. You cannot solve a problem that you cannot visualize. Drawing allows you to analyze a beautiful nose and imitate it well.
I strongly suggest you to draw noses with pencil, using the methods mentioned in this section.
1 Exercises
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Learn to draw a nose.
Buy a computer drawing tablet (electronic drawing notebook). There are various sizes on the market, but a 10 × 15 cm tablet will be adequate for our purposes. Make drawings of both beautiful and ugly noses. Draw the nose contours and add the shading. Draw the edges of the cartilages.
During rhinoplasty courses in Turkey, we organize sculpture classes. In these classes, basic design knowledge is taught and nose drawing and modeling applied. Based on their drawings, participants sculpt noses from clay and apply them to noseless busts. We use polygons as drawing and modeling method.
1.1 Sketch from the Front
The nose tip consists of three circles. The middle circle includes more cartilage than the circles on the sides. There is a 3:2 ratio for these circles.
Investigate the borders of the nose-to-face contact (nose footprint). Also draw the lateral aesthetic lines.
Investigate the relation between the lateral and dorsum aesthetic lines, beginning and ending points.
Look at your colleague’s nose while drawing. You will start to see details that you have never recognized before. This will increase your awareness.
Draw the nostril sill to understand its anatomy well. See the close relation between the nostril sill and footplate. Investigate the endpoint of the nostril sill. If the scar of the alar surgery aligns with the nostril sill anatomy, then the human eye cannot recognize the scar.
Investigate the fusiform structure that the nose dorsum constitutes. In this way, you can understand the dorsal aesthetic lines better.
Shading is the next step. Investigate the relation between dorsal aesthetic lines and shadows.
Adding some highlights to the dorsal aesthetic lines will make your drawing more realistic.
Note
Drawings below by Yusuf Başoğlu.
