Head Drawing and Construction
Introduction to the Skull and Abstraction
Head Construction and Invention
Perspective Forms of the Face and Features
Facial Features
Bonus Lessons
Let’s move from line drawings to adding light and shadow by viewing the head's features as basic forms: boxes, cylinders, and spheres. Each form has a corresponding edge quality—soft for spheres, firm for cylinders, and hard for boxes. By linking these edges with light and shadow, we create a more natural and realistic look. The key is to map core shadows and edges, then replace lines with edges to guide the viewer's eye, enhancing depth and realism.
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Mikael Gustafsson
1mo
Done, such a good course. Learned a ton these weeks and I love all the easy ways to remember the proportions. Halves and thirds simple and clean, clear and concise teaching style. Big thank you Steven for making this.
Now I'm looking forward to an Anatomy course that goes more in depth than the figure construction course ;) Take care :)
Ian Aaron Fuentes Sejas
2mo
I just finish this course and it was incredible! I learned a lot and the video instructions are clear. It is worth the price.
@phonon24
3mo
This month I spend some time on practicing head construction and shading. This 11-step method is so efficient that I can even finish head drawings. This lesson let me understand better about shading. Here is a drawing according bonus lesson. Thank you very much, Mr. Hampton!
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3mo
Nice work!
Diana Reid
3mo
I would like to thank Michael Hampton on his excellent instructions. I know that I still have much to learn, but before this class I could have never drawn this portrait.
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3mo
That's amazing! Well done 👏
@lucastoonz86
3mo
Just wanted to share my latest light and shadow drawing I haven’t really dealt with midtones yet but I got close too matching the form with this one except the neck. I will keep practicing, one thing that has been tripping me up is expressions especially this hinging of the jaw and trying add asymmetry along with it
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3mo
Very nice!
@purpleart
4mo
Great lesson. Took my drawing from the Fully Constructing a Head from Scratch lesson and followed along.
Thanks Michael, do you have any new courses in the pipeline? In the meantime I will contruct more heads and also return to the figure contruction course.
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4mo
Nicely done!
Actually, I did record a course on Gesture drawing that should release through Proko at some point.
Otherwise, really nice work. Keep it up
Mark Gallegos
4mo
This lesson is incredibly informative. Thank you for breaking down the process in such an understandable framework.
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Educator, painter, writer, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention.
