Project - Facial Features

Lesson by

Michael Hampton

inHead Drawing and Construction

304

Assignments 71

Downloads 6

Project - Facial Features

Lesson by

Michael Hampton

in Head Drawing and Construction

304

Assignments 71

Downloads 6

The assignment for this project is divided into two parts:

Development Drawings:
- Develop five heads based on your prior drawings that you are satisfied with.
- Concentrate on the features and details such as the tilt of the eye, the shape of the nose, and the form of the lips. Use these drawings to explore and refine the facial features.
New Drawings:
- Create five brand new head drawings from scratch.
- Work through the entire workflow from the initial sketch to detailing the soft tissue forms around the features like the lips.

This approach allows you to refine your skills both by developing existing works and by creating new ones, focusing on detailed facial features.

Jiljean Yow

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I’m still working through the rest, but I’m wondering why does this one’s jaw look just a bit too big? Or are there other problems making it look weird?

Paul Williams

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Hey, looks like you're having the same problem I sometimes have! I think the issue is that the facial features are too narrow in proportion to the rest of the head. Basically, it looks like the centre line for her features is too far to the left. If you look at the sphere of her skull, I think the central line should be about one-third of the way across (about level with where you have the corner of her left eye), where as you've drawn it much earlier than that. One way to check that you've aligned stuff correctly is to compare it with the reference, if you look at her picture and mentally draw a line down from her left eye then you see it sits within her neck and the edge of her nose is about level with it, but on your drawing both are quite far from being aligned with her neck. So yeah, I think a misaligned centre line has caused the issue here. The jaw itself looks about right, though her ear is a bit too short (the top of the ear should be around the mid-point of that side plane).

Yoran Bordewijk

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This is hard but also very fun to do. I'm improving so much thanks to these lessons. Open jaws really confuse me tho, I dont really understand it, yet! But I will..

Michael Hampton

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Looking good!

@lauralana

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13d

First are the five heads from the development drawings and then five new drawings. Thanks for any feedback! I know I tended to overwork some of them, but it was challenging to avoid doing that. I like the solidity of the second new drawing (of the woman glancing left, so I can see some progress. Thanks!

Thieum

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1mo

For this one I tried to apply a 3 values study according to the volumes of the face. But with hard edges only

Ash

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1mo

great work!

Michael Hampton

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1mo

Nice

Thieum

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1mo

Pencil drawings made during the Christmas holidays spent away from my graphics tablet.

Michael Hampton

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1mo

Solid!

Thieum

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1mo

2 studies that gave me a hard time, especially the second one. I had a really hard time understanding the planes of the cheekbone. I needed to do some tracing on the reference. I also did some skull studies, to better understand the cheek and visualize the anterior and lateral planes of the face.

Thieum

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2mo

Thieum

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2mo

Thieum

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2mo

My first 2 drawings from the previous ones

Patrick Bosworth

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2mo

Excellent!!

@aub

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3mo

This is my final assignment for the head drawing and construction course. I did the five drawings from the previous one and the five new ones. I did some basic shading because why not? I still need a lot of practice but I feel like this class sent me on the right path. I love Michael's teaching and I feel I have improved drawing the head. Most importantly, as I got further into each lesson, I understood that the method is awesome for inventions. (You could have a construction from one reference and change the features and lighting and design something different) If you can read this and have not taken this course, don't hesitate.

@sdavlin

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3mo

These are awesome. I'm on the second lesson right now. Really enjoying the course. Would be cool to see some of your stuff before you go the course.

Ian Aaron Fuentes Sejas

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5mo

This course was super useful to me! I love the results!

Sydney

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5mo

I feel my 3D forms and perspective could be stronger.

Gaylon Lucas

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5mo

great job Sydney! I have trouble with my proportions.

Ash

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5mo

well done, Sydney!

MSD

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5mo

this is what I had time for this week to do. I wanted to ask about the face in the upper right in particular, I had to draw that twice and still don't think I got it right. it might be the camera angle or something but it feels off in terms of structure.

Adrian Potato

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6mo

@phonon24

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6mo

Hello, Mr. Hampton. Since I attended a conference in the last days, I cannot finish my assignments before the deadline. Anyway I still keep practicing and your 11-step method is very efficient. The draft of the right one was finished when I was in the airplane. Based on your bonus lessons, I also tried to add shadows. Thank you again for this amazing course, which gradually realizes my dream.