Head Drawing and Construction
Introduction to the Skull and Abstraction
Head Construction and Invention
Perspective Forms of the Face and Features
Facial Features
Bonus Lessons
Let’s explore constructing heads from various angles using the 8 Step Method. Starting with basic proportions and planes, we built up the structure of the skull, eye sockets, nose, mouth, and chin. Key points included maintaining perspective consistency, using overlapping forms to create depth, and thinking about surface changes to inform lighting.
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GKHN
1mo
I rly love this course, even as a beginner its easy to follow! Its far from perfect but I'm starting to understand the forms more and more
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1mo
Nice work on these!
Guille Ibanez
2mo
In the video, you mentioned that after completing the construction phase, you should reduce the opacity to add details. However, when working traditionally with pencil and such, do you create your initial construction lightly and then apply darker details over it? Thank you.
Ben Whitfield
10d
Great question. I'm interested in knowing the answer to this as well.
@ejsilapas
6mo
Recently practiced by attempting to apply the steps thus far to a stylized reference, I’m excited at the results since I’m ultimately looking to draw manga. Thanks to this course I’m seeing and analyzing art in a totally new and fun light!
(Hopefully this was cool to post, I know everyone else were referencing real life photos…)
Julie Lian
5mo
lol its shanks!
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6mo
Very cool!
@ivan1botev
6mo
Any critique would be welcome.
Darren Jeffrey
6mo
Didn't get through them all, looking forward to giving the other ones a crack to.
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6mo
Amazing work, Darren!
@hgriff
6mo
Any critique is welcome! Also, does anyone have any tips on how to make finding the temple/side plane of the head easier?
@lucastoonz86
6mo
I will also say that making the head drawings larger helps a bit too although I’ve yet to make a sphere the size of my palm but I’ve been trying to make them larger. One last critique might to keep all lines parallel with the initial tilt except the neck don’t make that parallel
@lucastoonz86
6mo
I think these are getting there, nothing about this is easy unfortunately but one thing I’ve been noticing is that my perspective across the face is usually off from one side to the other but I’m hoping through repetition I will overcome this. As for finding the temple we kind of have to rely on where our ellipse meets the equatorial centre on the front of the face also just analyzing the references, he does go over this a couple times lucky for us we can rewatch these lessons until we sponge it all up.
@lucastoonz86
6mo
this probably doesn’t belong here but I made this while rewatching thevideo
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6mo
Whoa! so cool. All the lessons Mr. Hampton is teaching still applies to imagined drawings and observational drawings too! Apply what you learned in this course to make more awesome pictures like this one! :)
@hgriff
6mo
Looks great!
Kevin Riedel
6mo
man, it looks freakin amazing ! XD creative and with shading
@lucastoonz86
6mo
So a couple things the time limit made me realize that I average 8-10 minutes to get to this point I wonder if I should slow down. My perspective is usually out of wack and I believe I make the face too wide maybe. I intend on doing another twenty for the project. Also feed back is welcomed
@hgriff
6mo
Mr. Hampton or anyone else, could you provide feedback on this? I think I made the jaw too long because the Loomis rhythm doesn't look correct. Also looks like the features have "slid" down the lower half of the face. Perhaps my centerline is incorrect.
@lucastoonz86
6mo
Nice attempt ! Instead of one straight line to the chin break it into two angles, one that goes down and slightly angled from the ear and another equal line going to the chin as for that mastoid area we should really see a “c” curve there for the pinch that sockets into back of skull , and I’ll close by saying I am very much a student but I hope this helps he also does a great job explaining this in the videos, I would listen to his words over mine lol
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Educator, painter, writer, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention.
