How to Draw Faces Using Your Pencil as a Measuring Tool

hey guys so on this video i'm going to experiment with the the camera i'm going to have a camera where i can swing it in front of me and i'll try to show you as best i can how i use my pencil and thumb to measure and compare to different areas of the face like the thirds of the face and then also the length to the width and even the head tilt as well using the pencil so hopefully it works out let me know if it does for you and i'll make more like this if not then i just won't thanks for watching and here we go okay starting off with a circle then we're gonna find usually we try to find the head tilt but for her there is no head tilt she's straight on looking directly at us and i like to use this line as the brow line some people would like to use this line as where the eyes will sit on i like to use use it to indicate the brow and then the center of the face which is really easy in this case and just cut this in half so now we have the cross of the face which is comes from the lumis the loomis method and and now i'll go ahead and place in the hairline and she has a widow's peak slight that's a slight widow's peak like this but i'm not concerned about that point i'm going to use the overall sweep of her hairline and the brow because she has sweeping eyebrows or arcing eyebrows i mean so i'm going to do a simple sweep for those eyebrows and then the brow ridge something like that so i'm not measuring off of the top or the peak of the eyebrow i'm measuring at the base where the eyebrow begins in the center of the face so that's the line i'm using in these thirds and then the bottom bottom of the nose right now i'm just guessing and then i'm going to do a comparative measuring to find uh those relationships between those three parts so the one two and the three let me bring the jaw down just a little bit of the chin so this is what i think i see and now i'm going to bring this camera over and let me zoom in you can probably see me in the reflection hi so let me zoom in on her on her subject try to get this okay so now i'm going to hold my pencil up and my thumb this is kind of hard to do for me because i'm looking at the camera rather than the image on the tv but i'm going to measure bottom of the chin to the bottom of the nose and then compare it to bottom of the nose and the brow so i'm going to hold up bottom of the chin bottom of the nose bottom of the nose to the brow it looks like it's slightly below it's about right here so we're pretty close now i'm going to compare the bottom third to the top third so bottom of the chin to bottom of the nose then to our brow on top of the head and they look equal pretty close to being equal so i need to bring so i need to bring the hairline down a little bit so what i observe by using my pencil is the bottom third is roughly equal to the top third and the middle third the length of the nose is a little bit longer than those other thirds so next i'm going to measure the width of her face and compare that to the length and i'm going to do it from the point that her cheeks are the widest which look looks like it's probably like right on this line right here so let's bring our camera back over so i can show you let me adjust this try not to hit the camera itself so i'm measuring the width at the peak of her cheekbones something like that and then compare it bottom of the nose or bottom of the chin it looks like it looks like it comes to about right here maybe a little bit wider so it's a little bit slightly longer than my pencil so i take my pencil and it might be somewhere right here so i'm just going to make sure i got equal part equal distance on both sides perfect so now i have a rough idea where those cheeks or the width of the face will be and they uh from cheek to cheek compared to this and leaf so now i'm going to go ahead and put in some basic structure the glabella root of the nose right here i'll come down guessing or estimating the width of the nose little nostril sides and then let's go ahead and put in the cheek actually that's yeah that's fine let's go ahead and do that put in this side of the jaw and she has this the side plane of the temple we can do the rhythm for the forehead it comes down creates that little pocket inside the the orbital and then her neck do many lips for the uh the shirt let me take out this back side of the ellipse so let's do some of the rhythms from the riley method and this one here is the labial nasolabial fold or you can just say muzzle line and then we have the mid cheek which will help us place in the eyes so we have that sweeping arc for the brow and then there's another sweep here we actually take that out and show that structure i'm going to place in our eyeball this is just for reference we're not going to be married to it like we're not going to try to make the eyeball always be in the right spot but it's just going to get us in the ballpark so her mouth so this is the bottom of her nose actually let's go ahead and do some structure on the nose let's do that main cartilage ball and then the bony structure the bone of the nose the nasal bone and then you can do the nostrils because we see the tip of her nose is falling below the outside or the uh the bottom of her nostrils so then her lips looking at her philtrum looks pretty long there's a nice little rhythm right there and she has she's has she has a slight smile you see the tension into the lips here bottom of her lip is here she has this thin lips and there's a little wedge shape underneath the bottom lip and then we'll get the chin rhythm from that two little corner of the lips here and then because she's smiling this the uh nasolabial fold isn't exactly like this curve it's pulled up because of the muscle and it comes around like so it gives us a good placement and then we have this rhythm here for the bottom part of the mouth and then we can take that mid-cheek furrow and that catches here under the jaw over here her chin comes to a nice little point right there and then you see this overlapping form from the mid cheek furrow actually it looks a little different let's see because it comes out because she's smiling so it's a little bit wider i think that's a little bit better and then her cheekbone overlaps pretty strongly she has a very strong structure the bottom of her cheek from side to side just to make sure we get lined up our neck rhythm most of it be hidden in the hair once we put that in and then the side plane of our head with the hairs following that rhythm so now we have structure starting to come to life i don't need to arc or eyebrows that much flatten them out a little bit let's go over to the ear placement so you can see the one ear on one side the other side is covered in hair and looks like our eye or top of the ear falls somewhere on this line here and then bottom so what i'm doing let me take my camera actually i almost forgot so what i was doing if i can do it on this to find the top of the ear placement i take a straight line across and i see that it goes somewhere between the eyebrow kind of like on top of the eyelid the top of the eyelid that's where the top of the ear is i do the same for the bottom and it's right across the bottom of the nose so it's right about here and we can see a lot more this side of the ear and it looks like her helix is or the anti-helix kind of protrudes out from the top of the helix and then you see that like it pops out and then comes back down and then picks up where the earlobe the lobule sits so that's a really cool ear shape i really like that and then we can take like this overlapping lines to indicate form you don't have to get too heavy into the structure of the ear here um you can't see much over here you can see the anti-helix and then down into the lobule the earlobe but this will be covered in hair so that's our basic base structure and we can go ahead and i'll save the eyes for last let's go ahead and put the put our hair in so we have a like a wave kind of structure for the hair on this side and it comes down and it's going to be pretty crisp that line when it hits the head right there very clean line it comes out curves around something like a nice big s curve and the top of her hair catches her head her skull shape and then the other side comes down i can make this really straight if i want to create like a heavy feeling of the weight of the hair my hair comes out from behind the ear following that rhythm comes around cuts over and then down let's see our hair picks are actually overlaps on this side too it looks like maybe that right here comes out some nice big waves something like that i don't really need to get too too much into the hair i'm just trying to get the structure of the face right so let's go ahead and kind of soften up the eye brows a little bit i just want to make them a nice shape i'm a little too arched and she has a soft expression so let's take out some of these rhythm lines too actually i'm going to leave them in so i want to show that structure that we built up let's go ahead and place the eyes so we have the root of the uh or the root of the nose at the base of that bella wedge shape and it looks like for her the eyes sit pretty close to that just below it so i'm going to draw the straight line for the eyes to sit on the corner inside corner of the eyes and i feel like i need to make the nose just a little bit wider maybe not much you can see the split in the cartilage let's put that in there uh okay so back to the eyes so what i'm gonna do i'm gonna take a parallel line and i'm to try to find is the corner so i'm going to ask myself if i take this take this line here this vertical plumb line and i'm going to see if the corner of the eye is on the inside of that or on the outside so one way to do it is to hold your it's kind of hard to see here i'll do this side make a plumb line with your pencil a vertical line and see if it's right along the side see if the inside corner of the eye is on the inside or outside of that line outside the nostril so i can't see on the camera because it's too blurry it looks like it lines up real close so from what i can see it's on the inside just a touch so i'm gonna put a little dot to indicate the inside corners of the eye so let me take out that line and now i have the sphere i have that that reference for the inside so i'm going to go ahead actually before i draw in the eyelid let's do the orbital bone since we already have that rhythm and i'm going to sweep from side to side so sweep from side to side like so and now i'm going to start my eyelid shape and this is the peak of the eyelid so we can come side to side and make sure we get those two lined up from here to here sweep from side to side the little corner of the eye and you can even do that for the outside indicate a little flat edge to indicate the the eyeball wrapping and turning that corner and let's do the bottom comes across comes down and then wraps up on the side and we can finish this shape by showing this upper eyelid fold and it creates a little pocket where no light usually gets into especially on this model she has a really deep set eyes i'm gonna finish off the eyelid shape darken up the eyebrows orbital bone let's go ahead i feel like this eye might be a little too big so let's do the bottom eyelid shelf a little wedge over here in this the corner it comes up and over i don't really see that on her actually well maybe this is blown out from this side i see it on this side but the side is a little bit softer because of the light just a little cast shadow from the upper eyelid before we put the iris in and her full eye shows on the bottom i'm going to do a little highlight circle and then the pupil just to reaffirm some of those uh reference structural drawing lines i got kind of pushed out or pushed off of the paper with my hand so don't need to really show too much of the ear so that's basically it for her on this little exercise and i just wanted to do this just to show you the comparative measuring using the pencil and thumb so we're using our pencil and thumb like so and back to this camera here so we started out using it to find the thirds and how they relate to each other these three sections then we look for the width compared to the length that's pretty much it that's a really it's a really oh yeah and also the ears so we did the vertical or excuse me horizontal line using the pencil and then we use the plumb line the vertical line to find the corners of the eye so hope that helps guys and uh thanks for watching bye all right so i actually have like like maybe five more minutes before i have to go to work so i just wanted to go ahead and put some more rhythm lines in or structural lines that will help you with the shading and such this one here is from oops this one here is from the riley method and help you find that cheek rhythm and this one pretty much you see this rhythm right here already so we just drag that over so the corner of the mouth outside of the nostril all the way over to the top of the ear and again this one kind of got lost but you see how it comes down into the orbital and then picks up on the other side that circle on the forehead that's a really good one especially for like plain changes and such and then of course we have the brow what else do i got so i got the rhythm of the chin that's pretty much it guys um yeah let's go ahead and call this one just for an exercise and hopefully the the camera here helped um it was a little awkward trying to look through it like that but i was just trying to show you what i see when i'm looking uh using my pencil and thumb so let me know if that works for you i appreciate you guys checking out the video bye hey guys so i just woke up and i was looking at this drawing and i just wanted to fix some things i was in a hurry yesterday before going to work i was trying to get this demonstration on the comparative measuring and i don't know just a couple things on this drawing i just wanted to fix a little bit try to make it more look more like the uh the model that i'm drawing here so i think maybe the jawline might help if i fix that a little bit i was contemplating just scratching the whole video but i don't don't have the time to like do another one if i want to get a video out and i think i was looking at the video in the editing software and i think i think it's okay as far as like explaining what i do with the uh pencil and thumb and uh comparing and measuring or measuring and comparing different areas of the face so i think it's i hope hopefully you'll let me know if it's not uh adequate but i think it i think it works so but anyhow i just wanted to fix a little a few things on this one even though this is just a uh a study or exercise but in any case this is me being uh your typical artist and not wanting to let something go but i was looking at her hair she has a widow's peak so i just wanted to put that in i indicated it earlier but i was using the overall shape of the head to do the uh the measuring and then i was going to come back later and put in the widow's peak let's see i just want to do a little touch-ups maybe give her some better eye shape or just darken up where the eyelashes are just really pretty eyes and then the nose looks good maybe re reduce some of these lines make them a little bit darker then they get kind of smudged out during the drying process i smoothed out her jawline it looks like and actually it's too pointy it needs to this the angle needs to drop down a bit so let's do that again let's see so it actually i think it this one sits in a little bit further it's funny a lot of times i'll erase a line and try to redraw it but i wind up just drawing it right on top of the old line which i think i might be doing almost again even even though i'm telling you about it let's see yeah it's really frustrating trying to like draw daily and and also working full-time at a job it's really getting annoying and uh hopefully i'll be able to do this full-time someday it's like the dream just draw draw and paint all day make videos let's see so that looks better i'm not like super satisfied with it but i think i need to just let it go and uh thank you guys for your uh um all the comments and the uh get better soon kind of things i really appreciate it the head's healing well i'm supposed to get the stitches out tomorrow and uh yeah so that's that's good it's funny it caused the surgery caused a lot of nerve damage in my head on the top of my head so like like i'll push on like one part of my forehead and i won't feel it there i'll actually feel it almost in the back of my head so like the sensations are all like in the wrong place which is kind of funny but i'm just glad that they found or i went and saw somebody and they were able to take out the basal cell cancer and i don't have to have any other treatments or anything it's just a simple surgery just to cut it out so really fortunate in that respect i'll just have to keep my eye open for more so let's see should i just let it go now yeah all right all right so let me know if the that camera angle where i'm looking down the camera using my pencil and thumb if that helps at all or if i explained it well enough i'm not sure if i want to do do more videos using that or not just let me know and uh and we'll see what happens alright thanks guys [Music] you

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Id: O354SRTx7u4

Length: 33min 56sec (2036 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 23 2020