FACE DRAWING Exercises | The Asaro Head, Lilo & Stitch method, Using Shapes | 👽

What happened? You learned the basic proportions,  you know how to measure the face.   You've practiced for hours. You didn't sleep you didn't eat you didn't watch movies It was a hard two hour practice Oh my life What's wrong? Everything's wrong! My choice to be an artist has caused me to go and do a depression! you went on Pinterest you find the perfect picture you sat and draw it but still something is missing and I'm here to tell you what is it Your face is flat! The pancake face is still  here to haunt us one more time but I have a way to fix this today I'm sharing with you exercises for drawing the  human head that helped me Disclaimer one - I'm not an art  teacher I will show you some exercises that help me that I've tested  but don't listen to me only and disclaimer two - I'm artists more  orientated towards character design so some of the tips are  pushing more towards exaggeration   and simplifying stuff so maybe they  won't be so useful for realistic portraits Well 50/50 well... So the first thing I was doing in the beginning when I wanted to draw people was to open  Pinterest and search for reference photos but I wasn't getting the  important info from the photos rather just looking at some cool faces what info I had to look for  were the planes of the head I did some Michael Hampton studies like the one  I've showed you in my face tutorial video and then instead of photos of people  I decided to search for sculpted heads showing just the planes of the head the  most helpful and accurate is the asaro head I hope I'm pronouncing this right you can find it on Pinterest as a photo from  different angles or as a 3D model on sites like sketchfab I will link it in the description  the asaro head is universal head which works for both female and male faces the left side is a simplified version of  a younger or full face with less details the right side is more complex and represent a  thin or old face where details are more visible   I did a lot of studies of  different views of the asaro head   it was really helpful to memorize how the shapes  of the different features interact with each other and where is their orientation then when I had visual memory of what  is where and how it is in the 3D space I was more brave to add details  and to start drawing actual faces basically what I'm saying is draw this head a  lot of times and you'll soon have more knowledge how to fix the flat face syndrome in your art drawing this sculpture teaches your eye to  look at the human face in a new way and to   deconstruct the photo reference and speaking  of a photo reference here is a side note seeing and deconstructing the  photo is like having a blueprint before you jump on the actual project observing the human face is good for  every artist even when you are not drawing look for some of the planes you've learned about and mark them on a new layer try to find patterns and repeating shapes which are easy to memorize like  the fact that the upper part of the eye socket and the  nose base and the upper lip are following similar direction Ethan Becker has awesome video  on a technique on the same topic so go check it out so yeah once you've learned the basics go to the photo again and deconstruct  it to find patterns and shapes which work for you and will help  you learn and memorize faster now about the shapes I've shown you what shapes I use to create faces a sphere and a flat part  below something like a mask but many people use other techniques  and I've tried them as well because you know you have to try a lot of stuff to find what works for you one technique is using boxes I  called it head in a box boxes are similar to human head  3D object with four main planes the box is not a representation of the whole face but the upper part so we need  to draw the other half as well some people use this method because it's  helpful when you try to draw the head from more challenging angles you can  also add sphere inside the box and using the box just as a main  guide for the position of the head it's good to try the exercise with different  angles and to see how it works for you I don't use this technique often but  now when I was drawing the last hit it felt way easier with the box drawn first more in depth of this exercise you can see in the video of Kuzumari I will link it below and the other technique is to draw  the face as a mask or a paper sheet I saw this from a scenics design video this is another technique which works  very well for the difficult angles basically you draw a sheet  of paper in different views and then try to add the features of the  face starting just from simple lines and then building up once you have the lines it gets  really easy to spot the face and with practice you can  memorize and use different position when you are creating a character to make your art even more versatile and no matter what technique you are going to use try to draw face from different angles because   it not only teaches you how to  construct the face from every angle it also make your art interesting to look at so it's good to do studies  from people that you know know what they're doing people tell me to get a life perfect every time it is so much fun to flash this around one of the sure ways is to  draw faces from animated movies a fellow artist told me about  this Lilo and Stitch exercise that they give to students at  CalArts should i say allegedly because we've both never been there well allegedly but my point is it's legit because  it doesn't come from me only so the thing is to open site for screen caps I use animation screen caps and i will link it open the scenes where you can really  clearly see the characters expressions and start drawing them important part of this exercise is to set time for each drawing i don't think i  did face for more than 10 minutes just don't focus on the body or  the shadows if the time is up go to the next scene and the next hit you don't have to be a printing machine  and end up with the exact same face more important is to pay attention how the  different expressions change the face structure for example here Lilo's cheek muscles are moving from down to up depending on her expression while she is smiling her nose-to-mouth  ratio is smaller than when she is worried and her brows are way apart from  her eyes when she is laughing drawing a lot of these heads will  make you memorize rules like that and will help you when you want  not just to draw the face correctly but to simplify it and add  emotion and feeling to it to sum up time yourself because this  is an exercise for repetition and I've noticed at least for me the pressure of the clock helps you stay on track draw a lot of these I try to do as many as I can and the original exercise allegedly is  with something like 300 faces in a month the quantity is benefit here of course if you think while you're drawing and also don't focus on the body  or details if your time is up and guys leave Lilo and Stitch is an option you can always pick your favorite animation  to make the exercise even more fun because drawing 300 faces is.. a lot of.. fun you're ready you know everything about the human  face and you can flex on your friends and you decide to draw them and your family and relatives all of them use it to draw them and they all look the same oh [ __ ] you're drawing the same face over and over again this is a problem that i've never faced no never not a chance what is this the same face who is that I said no so in my previous video about drawing the  human head I've showed you how you can use different shape language to  make your faces more versatile but there is one other exercise that I really like it's drawing the face in weird shape yes how else should I call this so take a gigantic brush this one is called maxU  super clean from the max pack but you don't need a special brush take whatever big brush you want and go  crazy with some really abstract shapes well the easy part is over now try  to add some faces in these shapes and feel the eternal pain and struggle no I'm joking this is very fun to  try it both trains your creativity and also changes the way you draw stuff what do you mean by changes well  some of the faces I did here I wouldn't draw in other circumstances like that but here the shape pushes me to experiment   and think for more ways to  draw the eyes the nose the lips than just the usual style I use and yeah you can see I experimented  with styles and with people Gary Oldman will be disgusted with my  experiment drawing him as Dracula here this looks more like an excited  grandma with cinnamon rolls for hair hi I'm totally Gary Oldman please subscribe to this channel  it's amazing what are you waiting for try this exercise when you feel  confident enough in the basics   and you know more of how to construct  the face in different views and angles or try it right now well it's 2020 I'm not even Gary Oldman so   go ahead don't listen to me  and draw whatever you want well you're ready you know everything send me a card when you work in Pixar no send me a check yeah send me a check I will leave you with speed  paint of queen's gambit join me next time when we will draw the human eye and discuss the 78 reasons why it can go wrong until next time Thank you for watching!

Channel: Bobbo Andonova

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Length: 12min 25sec (745 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 04 2020