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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.
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Tommy Pinedo
8d
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 :)
Nicole
14d
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)
Sandra Süsser
1mo
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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1mo
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!
@al_ic_ja
3mo
@nasim_alchemist
4mo
My brain still hurts after this exercise…but by the end I understood it is incredibly valuable one
@osa
5mo
Here is my third attempt, made without watching the video. I think I’m really starting to get it!
Jack H
6mo
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.
@osa
6mo
Here are my post critique attempts. I think I still need to build that attitude of redoing them if they look off.
Zander Schmer-Lalama
7mo
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!
Nicole Guz
9mo
I am not sure If I got the assignment right. I had fun though! Critiques are welcome!
Vin
11mo
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.
@bert2
1yr
@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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11mo
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!
Diana Reid
1yr
Boxes after watching Demo video.
Brandon
1yr
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
@renb
1yr
yes same, not wiggling is the hardest part for me.
Pedro Branco
1yr
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.
@drawingdodo
1yr
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
Hilario Veloz
1yr
Here are two sketches, please be gentle. :)
Vue Thao
1yr
I'm feeling I get the hang of it. Yahoo!
Thomas Thornton
1yr
Head boxes (only level 1) I drew after watching Stan's demo.
@nathan_the_phaneuf
1yr
Compared my boxes with those of Stan's demo to see where I stand. There is a lot from what I see, especially in a project where subtlety is important.
Dermot
1yr
Here is my second attempt.
I can't always work out the horizon and vanishing points, they seem quite far away off the page. Any advice is would be great.
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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
