Drawing any Head with the 4 Steps - Extreme Poses
Drawing any Head with the 4 Steps - Extreme Poses
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Head Drawing and Construction

Introduction to the Skull and Abstraction

Drawing any Head with the 4 Steps - Extreme Poses

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Drawing any Head with the 4 Steps - Extreme Poses

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Michael Hampton
In this session, we're improving perspective skills with challenging head views. Starting with the back of the skull, we use shapes like a ball and an egg to set tilts and angles. We focus on the neck's 3D positioning and overlapping forms, emphasizing the head's natural diagonal inclination.
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@paka
13d
Loving this so far. Thought I still have a few questions I would love to have answered before begining the assignment - Regarding the first step, how do you know where to place the lines that show the direction of the head in realation to the circle. Is there a specific rule about it? What part of the anatomy does each of them reperesent? - Proko says that cross countours should wrap around the entire form of an object, and I find it really difficult to do that without losing the direction of the browridge - The neck in general. Just like figure drawing, there is a stretch and a pincht, but I just struggle to see any of what I'm drawing in the actual reference.
Michael Hampton
It might be useful to watch the critique video. It might help answer your questions.
@dbx
26d
I did the latest lesson references from memory, then correcting them later and checking my work
Michael Hampton
Great starts!
Side Shave Laura
Great following along with this. Heads up (hehe) I think there's some extra video that starts at 18:40 where Michael is speaking, but there's no voice?
Jonatan
5mo
Following along!
Nick Quason
Very difficult! Foreshortening is no joke and more often than not i would underestimate it
Velvet Tetrault
Monique Frish
I think I'm getting confused about the axis line you use to determine the angle of the the cranial mass. In most of your examples so far, you've placed it at the relative center of the sphere, but in the 3rd example here you have it much more off center toward the front of the face. Does the placement of this guide matter, should it be aligned with a particular part of the head? In other examples it seems to align with the ear and back of the jaw but here it seems to align more with the edge of the chin.
Jane Monroe
i'm also confused by this and would like to know :)
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