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In the article, the issues concerning some problems of a volume form in the educational drawing are brought up. The author notes that the beginning artists are usually confused by irregular shape of the head. The problem is that students do not draw analogies between the principles of transfer of a volume form learned in the course of imaging a still life and irregular shape of the head of the person though they are obvious. In the course of imaging the head of the model, the same principles of creation of a volume form and a volume-spatial design are underlain, as at the imaging of various solids and household items; only in a portrait these fundamental principles are not so obviously read. In the article, it is considered that a feature of the drawing for a picturesque etude of the head is that, with the similarity of the general principle of imaging of the head by pencil or brush, we observe a difference in the realization technique: a sharpened pencil and a rather wide, flat brush differently solve a form. It should be noted that oftentimes the beginning artists, drawing by pencil, create the image by a contour line that excludes space and illumination of nature which are also presented conventionally with the help of the so-called «tonal scale». The form and design in the pencil drawing can sometimes be reproduced linearly, without background. On the other hand, during the work with the brush, the form should be represented not separately, irrespective of the environment, from a background, but necessarily together with the environment where the model is situated. The perfection of both the pencil drawing and the «picturesque» one consists not in the fine finishing of work, but in the persistent aspiration to integrally and expressively transfer the nature.