Looking for Face Drawing Critique
3yr
Guillermo Murillo
I've been trying to give more structure to the nose and eyes. But because of that, I have exaggerated them a bit haha. I'm still working on my line quality. I appreciate all comments :)
Reference: Andrew Loomis, Drawing the Head and Hands
Joseph Leyendecker , 'Goin' South' Saturday Evening Post Cover Study
Looking great! I think the structure is super well defined in your drawings, I'm still having problems with emphasizing different features on a face on different characters, I can only seem to draw a "generic featureless human". I think yours have a lot of characters in it.
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Hey guys, i have done some loomis head drawing . Pls let me know if there is anything wrong or what shoul i improve in my head drawing.🐼
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3yr
Nice work and most of the feature tilt lines look good. On a couple of heads the feature tilt lines look a bit out of alignment. Its a good idea to double check these lines that the features will be mapped to later. It will help avoid drawing wonky eyes or having a nose out of alignment. I still have to remind myself to double check my work. lol
Looks good. I think including the neck muscles that meet at the sternum will help the gesture, and including just a hint at the traps and/or shoulders will be a good way to level up this practice
Great job Guillermo. You might want to check out Marco Bucci's tutorial on painting the head (https://www.proko.com/lesson/painting-the-head-from-imagination-lighting-without-reference-with-marco-bucci/discussions). I also found Dave Greco's skin painting tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpXQvDWvCNk) invaluable. I know you're drawing, not painting, but both Bucci and Greco talk about the planes of the head, so useful for any medium.
Hey Guillermo,
these heads are really cool. the structure of the nose and eyes is really evident in these. To help with proportion will be to build these heads off the Loomis heads which I can see you did in the bottom one. I thought these heads were so cool, that I did some draw overs of them, applying the Loomis proportions to them. I hope this helps you in some way, keep up the drawing :)
You are really helpful! Just be aware that the vertical axis of the 'steering wheel' on the side of the head is parallel to the vertical axis of the face. Your top right and bottom left heads do not satisfy this requirement.
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3yr
Hi Guillermo! Good work on these faces. Take a look at the angle of the head on 'Goin' South' Saturday Evening Post sketch. The ear needs to be higher because his head is tilted back.. Just check the top and bottom of the ear with a horizontal line across the face and see how the ear lines up in relationship to the eyes and nose. Also it looks like some of the proportions are off on the first two drawing in image one. You may try drawing the head first in a box with the same head tilt and then mark in the thirds of the face and the angles all lining up. Again great work and study!
