![]() Square off the line and arc it up to the bottom of the oval to form the jaw. Draw a mark below the nose line that is the same distance below as the brow line is above.These are the locations for the bottom of the nose and the (average) hair line, respectively. Draw two similar lines that wrap around the form starting at bottom and top of oval.This line represents the brow and top of the ears. Then continue the line across the face as if it were a rubber band wrapping around the head. So if the head is tilted up, so will the line. The angle of the line determines the tilt angle of the head. Draw a semi-horizontal line across the oval.More to the side, wider oval more to the front, narrower oval. The width of the oval is determined by the angle the head is turned towards. The oval represents the removed volume from the sphere created by the circle, as our heads are not spheres but flatter on the sides. On the side of the circle that will be the back of the head, draw a vertical oval that is two thirds the height of the circle.This represents the majority of the cranial space. The video is only five minutes and worth a watch, but here are the basic steps: At the recommendation of a friend, I started following Proko and found this tutorial: It is essentially the slightly more sophisticated version of what I had done a few days before. The idea is to use a circle, an oval, and a few arcing lines to construct the basic forms of the head from any angle. So yesterday I returned to head shapes and learned about the Loomis Method, developed by Andrew Loomis in his 1956 instructional guide, Drawing the Head and Hands. 4 March, 2020 – Following YouTube guide for female head So I’m thinking of going back a few steps and trying to concentrate on each element. 3 March, 2020 – Following YouTube guide for male headįor the female head, I tried to erase and fix the eyes and mouth a little bit, but each time it wasn’t just quite right. But in the end I feel like I ended up with something that more resembled a human face than I have ever done before without tracing. Also, I didn’t have an eraser with me at the time, which made it much more challenging when she later went in and corrected little mistakes that she had made. She speeds up her process, so I needed to frequently pause the video to try to fill in each step. In it, the artist draws one masculine and one feminine face, which I decided to attempt over two different days. 2 March, 2020 – Practicing shapes and head formsĪfter a little practice, I thought I’d give a tutorial with a little more detail a try. Begin with a circle for the skull, box in the jaw, add curved horizontal and vertical lines on the face, and it already starts to resemble a head. But it turns out that it is pretty simple. I had seen similar ‘wire outline’ sketches of figures before, but didn’t know where to start and had thus never attempted them. So as I work through my plan for March, I thought I would start with the ol’ noggin.Ī quick YouTube search yielded a video about how to draw simple head shapes that had been recently uploaded. Others are more specific to drawing the human form, and in particular the head. Some stages will emphasize basic fundamentals, such as drawing shapes, that are universally applicable to any kind of drawing. After my first self portrait attempt, I’m trying to deconstruct the process and to establish a meta-learning protocol for how to improve over the next month.
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