Drawing any Head with the 4 Steps - Demos
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Educator, painter, writer, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention.
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We learned the theory last time, now we’ll put it into practice trying the four steps on a variety of reference photos.
@Michael Hampton I appreciate if u guide me on this: How do we determine the correct position and angle of the tilt in step 2? Sometimes, the tilt seems to follow the center as a slightly angled diameter, while other times it appears more asymmetrical, positioned more to the right or left. What is the logic behind placing the tilt correctly on the sphere, beyond just following a diagonal inclination?
I love this course. I have a better understanding from learning from Mr.Hampton then I did from Andrew loom’s books.
I'm not sure if I'm understanding tilt correctly, specifically for the head direction. For instance, in example 7 it looks to me like the tilt of the head is going the opposite direction of how @Michael Hampton drew it. Thank you.
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9mo
Try looking instead at the symmetry line of the features and not the angle of the outside of the contour.
Couldn't find the references he used so i found my own. Very good practice couldn't help myself after watching these two videos.
A revisit is always worth it. Been a while since I drew any heads and a refresher was needed.
For me in my current skill level, this course feels basically perfect. Thought looking at some of the concept present, I don't think I would have really understood anything if I started this course a few months ago, before I understood the basic structure of the head. Many ideas such as turning the browline into a cross-contour of the entire sphere would have been impossible for me to understand at that time. For me right now thought, this is just perfect.
I've been having trouble discerning if something 3/4 perspective or profile depending on the references, here's my homework for this class
This is too difficult for a beginner. There are different levels of beginners also but I as a beginner can't do these steps at all. The tilt and perspective, I simply cant do it and I can't move forward if I can't draw them.
Hey, I was where you were not that long ago. Last year, my boxes and circles and ellipses were really wobbly and distorted but two things helped me. 1. Practising them again and again in fun ways. 2. Letting go of getting it "right". Time and time again, the advice I got was to trust that soon, and with enough repetition, they'd improve. Draw-A-Box helped a lot. I only made it through the first three lessons before I had to put it down (the commitment was too high at that time as I was quite ill) but what I learned there was invaluable. And free. Keep going. You've got this.
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11mo
This all just takes time and practice. I understand being frustrated and if this approach isn't resonating than that's ok. However, you're getting it. That's clear in the drawing above. All the steps are there. Now you just need to practice refining it. Understanding will come and it will get easier with time and effort
For the 4th step, when you say center to the sphere, are you saying that the ellipse has to be in the center of the ball or just the major axis it self needs to be centered in the ball ? I understand that something has to be centered but what exactly needs to be centered? And centered in relation to the ball?
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1yr
Major axis of the ellipse
Is the brow line on the front plane still a straight even after drawing the ellipse? Like the ellipse is being drawn over it, but the brow is still placed on that initial straight? Just the same, when we bring the ellipse down should the chin still be a straight?
where can I get the photos you used
And another question. While drawing the head, should we use more our wrist or our elbow/shoulder. I'm using a regular BIC pen to draw. Thanks! @Michael Hampton
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1yr
I try to only work from the shoulder if you can.
