How to Draw the Head – Side View

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How to Draw the Head – Side View

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Portrait Drawing Fundamentals

1.8M

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Draw the Loomis Head - Side View

Browse the interwebs for “side profile pictures” and choose your favorite ones. Practice constructing the loomis head from the side view using what you learned in this lesson. This time, try to capture the proportions and characteristics of the subject. Figure out how they are different from the average loomis head proportions and make sure to capture those differences. Observe the major angle changes of the forehead, brow, nose, lips and chin of the contour.

faye zhang

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2mo

Reminder: everyone who posted is brave for pushing through and meeting the challenges. It’s easy for bystanders to critique, but only we know how difficult it was and the mental obstacles we had to overcome to draw. So keep at it! The eye is too low on my drawing, but hey drawing along is not easy.

maciek szczech

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2mo

Thank you @faye zhang. Comment nesting does not allow me to reply directly under your question: Quite a long time ago, without really studying and understanding the basics that I took seriously at the beginning of this year. I hope you don't mind such an enigmatic reply, but in the end it doesn't really matter. We are all different, some will be great at what they do relatively quickly, others will not achieve much even with hard practice.. although hard practice does pay off

maciek szczech

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2mo

Good reminder. Good profile sketch. Keep up practicing!

Melanie Scearce

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2mo

Agreed, it takes a lot of courage to make a drawing, even more to post it! Nice work here 👍

soupbonep Lee

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2mo

soupbonep Lee

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2mo

From the free Loomis series it wasn't supposed to look like Stan, but I used a screen shot at the end to finish it as he was not only the narrator, but the head model. I hope you think it is a good likeness.

Vera Robson

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3mo

@smeet

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1mo

this is great

Gannon Beck

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3mo

Well done!

@sharpjab

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3mo

Nicole Guz

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3mo

Pedro Branco

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8mo

Here's a side view drawing. I lost the reference sadly.

Jack Mills

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8mo

Side view sketches.

@kaskaderski

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9mo

@dcordes

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9mo

Can't wait to get to eyes/nose/ears/mouth so I have a better idea of what I'm doing there. Profile, and the attention to relative angles was really useful exercise. I made very large improvements over the course of this exercise. Still struggling with shading, but getting a bit better. Ratios are difficult as well. I'm happiest with 5, although the head is a bit stretched.

@grugrugru

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1yr

S R

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1yr

It's tricky! I often feel like I don't have enough space for the jaw.

S R

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1yr

I tried another four, to incorporate feedback. Getting a little closer.

Martha Muniz

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1yr

When drawing the profile view, keep in mind that the features typically protrude outwards from the flat front face plane. This will be in varying degrees from person to person, so it helps to note the curvature created from the forehead to the nose to the jaw. This extra space can account for the room you feel is needed for the jaw area. Hope this helps!

@nightfall

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1yr

heres attempt for todayy

Crimson The Vixen

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1yr

6/8/2023 Side View Starter.

Crimson The Vixen

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1yr

30/7/2023 Side view of the head.

Alex S

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1yr

I'll need to work on features a bit more... If it's not the proportions that are off then it's the shapes

Martha Muniz

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1yr

There's a tendency to keep the features close to the loomis center line, and while this proportion changes from person to person, generally the features protrude further out. It helps to note down the angle of this curvature, something like forehead to nose to chin. It also helps with placing the smaller curves, like the mouth, eye sockets, nostrils, etc. but feel free to continue noting down the smaller angles for these on the reference itself.