Drawing the Head, Neck, and Shoulders

The clavicles (collar bones) is structurally the anchor point for the pair of angel-wing-like shoulder blades that sit atop of the rib cage on either side of your your upper back. Visually, these same clavicles connect the ovals of the top of the upper arms This whole complex forms an ovid that you can look for and introduce into your sketches, to help anchor the head and neck.

The rib cage is an oval that is smaller at the top than on the bottom. It can reveal (as crossing ribs) itself just below the collar bones, but it is soon lost below muscle and tissue. This is because the ribcage sits slightly tipped away from the viewer and creates a plane atop which sits the pectoral muscles and the breasts. Identifying this mix of supporting structure and tissue will allow you to sit your head and face in space and with a sense of weight and stability.