Struggling with Facial Features
2yr
@gunter
Heya,
A few days ago, I started with learning how to draw facial features on a head, but it's not going as well as I hoped for.
So far, I only know how to draw a simple loomis head (example attached to this post), as well as knowing that the facial features are drawn as shapes with the anatomy in mind. The thing is, I get really confused as to how to put those 3D shapes on the loomis head.
After doing a little bit more research, I discovered that being able to draw a proper head shape for the facial features to 'lock on to' would be a good start. Even so, I don't know how to approach this.
So how should I solve this? I read somewhere that knowing how to draw the skull helps alot, but I'm not sure how to do that.
The best way to begin to draw the facial features is to think of them as simple shapes. Place them on your Loomis head in the right place, and your head should feel like a 3 dimensional shape, like a sculpture. Then when you can do that consistently, turn those features into their actual shapes. This takes a lot of practice, and lots of patience, so don't give up :)
Asked for help
There are good courses teaching how to buid the head, two that come to my mind are the Proko portrait fundamentals, and Marco Bucci understanding and painting the head, as also the book by Andrew Loomis, and as a good exercise to prectice the head, I recomend doying the ahmed aldoori 100 heads challenge.
