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The premium lesson offers a comprehensive guide to mastering portraits from various angles, ensuring dynamic illustrations. You'll learn to:
- Simplify heads into boxes to understand extreme angles, subtle tilts, and horizontal axis perspectives.
- Follow a systematic approach to drawing the planes of the face, ensuring accurate perspective without tapering errors.
- Place facial features correctly by establishing brow, nose, chin, and ear separations.
- Adjust the head box in two-point perspective for different views, including extreme upward tilts and subtle angles.
- Rotate and converge planes for a realistic portrayal of the head from unique vantage points.
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In this demo, I'll show you how to draw heads as boxes in 2-point perspective. This makes it easier to understand the head's simple form at various angles. It's a great exercise for improving your perspective skills and helps you build up to more three-dimensional portrait drawing.
Ended up redoing the heads. I was removing considering too much of the upper/lower planes as part of the front (e.g. forehead). Visualizing what the cube should be shaped like based on what I'm seeing definitely helps.
Here’s my attempt at boxes. It started “clicking” once I started focusing on converging lines and vanishing points rather than the contours of the heads.
Second try on the portraits in perspective assignment. Feels still a little off but much better than last time, at least when it comes to imagining the planes.
Critique are as always very welcome! Have a nice one :)
First image on the left is before watching the demo. I like to try it before watching the demo and see the improvement after watching the demo. Next two images are after watching the demo.
these are really helpful in looking at the head as a 3D box. Great exercise and will continue to do these :)
Really had fun with this exercise! I always thought perspective was daunting but this course made it easier to understand, especially through the projects! I'm more of a self-taught learner and the more I practice the more I self-correct. Had the hardest time with 19 though, couldn't tell if I should put the ear in the same plane as the front side of the face, but I did my best! (Edit: was meant to post this in the previous video, but I didn't watch the demo as of doing the project yet)
Combined the studies partly with sphere & other exercises.
As for reference 5, i'd argue it is just 1 point perspective since the head is parallel to us as the viewer.
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It’s a bit counterintuitive but the horizon line can be tilted, even as far as 90 degrees. There will be convergence to two separate vanishing points here, although the vanishing point is very far off for the plane that represents the top of the head.
Your boxes look great, nice work!
My brain still hurts after this exercise…but by the end I understood it is incredibly valuable one
Here is my third attempt, made without watching the video. I think I’m really starting to get it!
Drew alongside the demo this time. The smaller boxes were from the demo. One thing I've realized is that sometimes the edges of the boxes don't line up exactly with the reference, or at the very least, areas like the chin or side of the head are curved such that it's difficult to find the exact edge that describes them.
Here are my post critique attempts. I think I still need to build that attitude of redoing them if they look off.
Hello everyone! Man! This one kick my butt, but I head fun doing them. I definitely be to be practicing those more. Let me know what I need to improve on. Have a wonderful rest of your day!
I am not sure If I got the assignment right. I had fun though! Critiques are welcome!
hmm, after rewatched and redrew few times, I made this with answers from Demo to correct my attempts. My thought: Head boxes are not easy as I thought.
@Stan Prokopenko How come at the demo at 19:32 the slopes go upwards out when we are looking up towards him ? since his eyes are above the eyeline shouldnt they slant downards towards the eyeline?
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There is a slight change in angle in their position along that horizontal axis that would affect how their eyes align. But also, if we think about the face even simpler, like an egg shape, we can note that as it turns, the eye furthest away from us reaches a point where it has to turn back down to follow the circular trajectory. That's how I understand it, at least. Hope this helps!
I found myself tilting my head if the poses were tilting. and this always leads to wrong decision of lines' angle. Does anyone have the same problem as me? Also drawing itself is so funnnnnn, i wish i am capable of continuing this passion and drawing different types of stuff when I m getting old
2 minutes in, I felt like I had taken the portrait drawing part a bit too seriously and missed the mark of the exercise so I did the lvl 1 assignment again.
While I can't say that I'm an eminence at this, it's not a very hard exercise if you know what you're looking for.
Nice work! There are some that feel like they aren't converging like a box would (namely 6, 9 and 14) but you nailed the bounding box aspect of the head, that was a bit challenging for me personally
