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I have been taught mid head top to bottom should be mid eye. I find following your steps top half falls short. Am I wrong or am I doing something wrong? Thanks for any help.
Michael Hampton
All good. You can substitute whatever proportional breakdown you want at this point. I find this is best especially when working from views other than straight on.
@rtpowell
My temporal plane, the elliptical or circular shape I get from hair line tempel and nose line is always out of wack. Not a neat circle or ellipsis any advice would be great
Josh Fiddler
My input, and I could be totally wrong, but this looks a bit rushed through the steps trying to get to the result. If you don't already, before getting into the studies proper, take ten minutes and a piece of scrap paper (anything will do), and practice ellipses, circles, straight lines, c- and s-curves. Vary lengths, direction, etc. If you're not familiar with the concept of "ghosting" lines, look it up, (proko's drawing basics is a fantastic resource). In terms of what's there, it looks like a view from below, so I'd expect to see more of the underside of the jaw and the connection to the neck tube. At each set of stages, (he breaks down the steps into logical groups that make sense), pause and reflect on what you've done, correct anything that looks off before moving on. As we build on top of prior steps, if the early one's aren't right, the later ones won't be either. Good luck and keep practising! Several shorter studies with reflection between/after are better than one long one.
Paul Williams
It looks like your proportions between the brow and chin (eg for the nose, mouth etc) are actually OK, it's just that all of those together are not proportioned correctly in relation to the skull sphere. On this drawing the chin line just needs to be a lot lower... from estimating, I'd say maybe about level with the lowest line we can see of the sphere (the very bottom curve that connects with the neck line). I think, if you lined the chin up to that and kept the brow where it is then the proportion of the rest of the features (when redrawn) would be about right.
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