We've mapped basic proportions and now transition to understanding the side plane of the head. This step involves identifying four points: hairline, base of nose, temple, and back of skull, to define the temporal fossa. Drawing is about sculpting, so we cut and add to approximate the reference. This process helps in developing features like the ear, jaw, and cheekbone, and understanding the structure and rhythm of the face.
We'll be diving deeper into each feature of the face later, but this will be a good roadmap for you to see how we'll be using the steps we've learned so far.
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@tonycatalano
1mo
This music is giving Persona 5. Like we are in a pre-heist team meeting..."If you thought the set-up was something, get ready for some REAL head drawing 😎".
On another note, defining the four points for the side plane helps a ton from the typical way it is taught.
Ian Aaron Fuentes Sejas
2mo
I have troubles drawing the temporal fossa. How did you find the temple?
@veryartthing
3mo
How do you find the back of the skull if you're not starting with an accurate skull shape? When you start with this big perfect circle its not gonna accurately reflect where any of this is. I don't know where the circle shape on the inside in this diagram even came from.
Julian Blake
4mo
Is it my impression, or the steps 8, 9, 10, and 11 were kindda rushed in the editing? I didn't really get the full process in those steps.
Carlos
4mo
Is there a way of getting the horizontal proportions? Same way you have explained the halves and thirds, but for the width of the face so we don't end up with faces that are, in my case, too narrow.
I have thought about this because I don't know where would be a correct position to draw the temple in my sketches to form the temporal fossa.
Thank you.
@meeho
4mo
Sorry, what is step 10? I rewatched it several times and still can't grasp it🥲
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