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 take a look over your 8 Step Method project submissions to see what is working and what can be improved. We’ll review some of the most common mistakes like proportions, form intersections, perspective, wrapping lines, and feature placement.
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@joshhrnnd
4mo
I've been really enjoying these lessons so far! I've been a bit late to uploading for critiques but I hope Mr. Hampton is still able to give out quick comment critiques? If not, any students who are experts in the head drawing field, your comments are more than welcome! Thank you again!
Mark Gallegos
4mo
Thanks so much for the critiques! It definitely inspired me to continue practicing the 8-step method. I have a question about proportions when drawing a head at an extreme upward or downward angle. When drawing an extreme upward angle, the distance between the base of the nose and chin appears bigger than the distance between the base of the nose and the brow. The opposite seems to be true when it's an extreme downward angle. Also, the amount of underside of the brow that's visible varies a lot between upward and downward angles. Are there some rules-of-thumb that help map out these proportions?
Ricen
4mo
This is due to perspective. Just like how you can divide planes into halves using the x-method(shown here: https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/the-x-and-x-ray-tricks/ )
- there are methods to divide planes into any equal portions that you need.
Here is how you'd divide it by thirds:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160730031252/http://andreasaronsson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DivEquParts_03.png
The image is from this blog(recovered using web.archive, since the blog seems to have fallen off the internet). The blog shows how to divide planes all the way up to 1/27th if you are interested. https://web.archive.org/web/20211017170937/https://andreasaronsson.com/guides/perspective-drawing/divide-into-equal-parts/
But really, what you'd do for a "rule of thumb" is practice training your intuition a bit. Draw a plane, guess at where the thirds would be in perspective, then use this method to check how well you guessed. Do that enough and you'll start to get a feel for things. Honestly it doesn't have to be super accurate - just accurate enough.
If you are always drawing from observation then you'd just rely on the proportions you can see.
@michaelkopa007
4mo
great question
@csen
4mo
Any advice on practicing these efficiently? been doing an hour of these every day but havent felt much improvement.
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4mo
My best advice for practicing efficiently is already here in the steps. If you can, try and pinpoint where your getting stuck or which step is holding back overall improvement and focus there.
Amelia T.
4mo
Thanks a lot for the critiques!
@lucastoonz86
4mo
These critiques where insightful, thank you
@hgriff
5mo
Mr. Hampton, thanks for the critique. I'm still massively struggling, and I was wondering if you had an specific suggestions for practicing?
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4mo
Not in addition to the steps/lecture. Just be patient with it. It takes a lot of time to get comfortable with it all.
@lucastoonz86
4mo
i would say that the steps demonstrated are a great way to practice simplifying the complex subject of drawing the head, not sure if you have his other class but maybe if you looked up some basic form intersection and modification exercises of cube, sphere, pyramid, cone, etc. could be beneficial for drawing everything
@simone94
5mo
rewatch lessons and try to copy what michael did, i mean copy every skull he draw. Then do exercize twice... for me worked
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Educator, painter, writer, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention.
