Heavy Head Construction / Portrait Drawing Demo

okay this will be a little fun one really cool looking guy i think it's an actor i just don't remember his name um and i don't know who who's the photographer either i just took it off of pinterest but uh it's a pretty cool photo and i think i'll just go ahead and start with the circle i was gonna block in his head overall but um well now let's stay with the uh the loomis so let's draw our circle as best we can it's a little wonky that's okay okay so now i'm going to find the cross of the face and i'm going to go through the eyes and they're pretty straight they're not tilted and then the cross of the face is i feel like probably about right here and then i can just pull that all the way down for the center line of the face overall and you can even pull that further up and over if you like so now i find it easier to go ahead and place an angle for the eyebrow on that far side of the head and then come over here and actually you know what i did i told you this was the uh of the eyes i think i'm confusing people um let me start that part over so let's go back to our circle okay i just realized i think i might be a little unclear on something so when you try to find the cross of the face oftentimes i'll go through the brows and then other times i go through the eyes and i think i should probably just pick one and stick with it so i'm gonna go with the eyes because the eyes don't really they don't move with the expression like the eyeballs are where the eyeballs will be so let's make this the eyes for real and now i'm gonna find the cross of the face got that okay so for the eyebrows now i'll just come up a little bit so here's here's where the eyes are and then we come up a little bit further and then we'll come in with the angle for the the eyebrows so i'm going to watch that on the next video make sure i don't get those two um mixed up between the eyebrow and the eye it's just sometimes it just depends i don't know it's like if if the person has super arching eyebrows i'll just go with the eyes but if they have like straight eyebrows i'll go with the eyebrows so i'm instead of doing that i'm going to start just being consistent with going through those through the pupils basically and then i think that's going to be much more clear for folks because i just now realized i think that's what's happening it's my fault it's my explanation is not not good so anyway so this is through the eyes the eyeballs the eye the irises the pupils and then we have this angle for that far side eyebrow and then i place in this other eyebrow and this helps guide me to find that side plane of that that of the sphere that piece that the loomis method if you ever looked at his books he cuts the side of the ball off so now instead of all the way around it's round on the front and then the flat it's flat on the side so what happens here is you can so when you get to this point here you come up at an angle for our guy here and then another angle like so that's very rough but you get the idea where the ear might sit in this quadrant here so you have one two three four he sits in the third and then so you have this angle for the ear from this point of the eye and then come down here and then come across and we have about where the nose will be now this is the loomis generic head our guy might not fit this generic setup on the chin we can come down here so this is very very much a generic loomis head that we have right now so what i want to do is see how the person we're looking at how he deviates from this generic head so here's our hairline here's our brow so i'm going to measure from the brow which is this line right here between these two points of where the eyebrows start to the hairline i'm going to compare that length this straight up length and when compared to the bottom of the nose and the brow line and see if they're equal or not and the same with the bottom third the bottom of the chin to the nose i'm going to check to see those three relationships to each other i'm using my pencil and thumb holding it up in front of me i have one eye closed and i'm looking through the pencil and i'm putting the point of the pencil on his nose like right here on the base and then my thumb is coming up and it's touching the chin so now i have that measurement now i'm going to bring it up to the bottom of the nose and it connects right to the eyebrow so these two are equal so let's come here and move that chin down so these two are equal points never mind this eye line right now just focus on the middle third which is the eyebrow bottom of the nose and then bottom of the chin and now we're going to do the same thing to see the measurement of the forehead so again i'm going to take well this time i'll just take since these are two equal doesn't matter i'm just going to take bottom of the nose to the eyebrow right here and then see where it matches up with the um the forehead basically so pencil and thumb finding that measurement and it looks like it's pretty much equal so we have one two three so we move this up here and so now we know he has three equal parts of the thirds of the face and now what i'm going to do is look on the far side cheek so let me just sketch in his eyebrow for a second and his cheek right here so i'm going to measure from this point all the way across to about where that jaw line in front of the ear begins so from this point to this point i'm going to use my pencil and thumb holding up in front of me and then when i find it i'm going to rotate my hand and put my thumb where the chin is and see where it lines up around here likely it'll be i don't know it depends on how thin so the idea is this helps you identify the the length of the face compared to the width so let's find that cheek actually let me fix this because i just noticed his eyebrow comes out to this point and his cheek is actually tucked in under so that's a better better guess is these two points so let me check my my guess and make adjustments as needed so pencil and thumb and bottom of the chin and it's right on the money so from chin to the eyebrow is the width of the face so come here to the cheek so i need to move this further out let's check that again and it's probably about right there so i just had to move that jaw line in front of the ear a little bit further away as jawline comes down so now i'm going to locate the bottom of the ear in relationship to the bottom of the nose by using my pencil in a horizontal line so i'm guessing by looking at it bottom of the ear would be right here and i'm going to check that by holding it up to the image in front of me bottom of the ear go straight across and that's about right because it hits the hits the side of the nostril top of the ear let's do the same thing that's a really easy one coming straight across it hits the top of the eyebrow so we were in we're pretty close we're we did a pretty good job loomis actually worked pretty good on this so so we just sketch our basic ear shape now it looks kind of weird and funky right now but let's look at this jawline to the chin and try to just block it in in a very basic way there's a very masculine chin and then just very very very very basic and then let's go over here to the back side of the neck and it comes out like this and down here you see a little bit of that underside of the neck and then his collar is pretty close to the jawline like so so let's finish building the structure of the head you can see the hair on the back touches the ear right about here the ear goes further out beyond the hair hairline i guess you call it the back of the head now i'm looking at the overall shape of this head he's got a lot of hair on top this is the center line right here so that's where that peak the widow's peak of his hair and almost can't really see much on the other side this hair is thinning and then let's do the shape of the hairline so looking at some of the points to look at are the peak and the end of the eyebrow and then looking at that rhythm the side plane rhythm and then what i like to look at is the distance from this point to the hairline over here and that looks like it might be pretty close sideburn something like that so he has a pretty strong jaw i'm gonna go ahead and put in some of these wrinkles in the neck i don't want to put all of them in because it they don't look contrived there's just so many i'll just go i'll vary the shape a little bit so i don't want it to like look like just a bunch of like lines like on a ruled college paper or something so it's just going to be distracting so let me just take some of that out okay so let's do the nose i haven't even got the nose in yet um the glabella shape right here and right here the tip of his nose you can see that it goes just just past the cheek but if we look at the overall shape of the cheek all the way down to the chin it kind of goes minus the mouth it curves in like this yes so how do you say like um don't think about the mouth yet because the mouth we're gonna put in this this uh the volume right here but just the overall rhythm of that side of the cheek is like that you can see how the uh the eyebrow peak right here is really far out from the furthest point of that cheek and it might actually be even more so let's see i can probably exaggerate that that's like a characteristic of him and also maybe bring the forehead up just a touch and round it out so we got like this crazy peak right here it's got really strong eyebrows peak the peak okay so now where's the point of the nose so here's here's the center line of the nose so we'll come up to the bottom and bring that bottom up first and then the overall shape of the top of the nose and the angle just come all the way through and then we can round that out a little bit and then the nose the nostril like so let's put that nasal bone bump and then that big main cartilage of the nose right here and then the side cartilage so it's really a good good habit to make is to look for those points of reference and one of them is where the nose lines up with the cheek because his is it's just um this is a really great way to make sure that your features are lining up and you're all in proportion is when you get like a nose that's sitting right on the edge of something it's really it's a really good thing to look for in art class they called it the nose like because everybody's sitting in a different spot in the classroom so everybody has like a different perspective of the model that is in the class so a lot of times there's somebody that's got the perfect position where the nose is lined up with that cheek and they're called the nose monitor so so they would ask out loud like okay who's the nose monitor and then i'll say like oh i got it i got it and then that means that from my perspective the model's nose is lining up with their cheek so when we go on break and the model gets up and and goes and gets something to drink check the phone and they come back and they sit back into their pose i it's my job to tell them to go left right up and down until the nose matches up again with the cheek and that keeps the pose helps the model put the pose back in the proper spot that it was in before before the break so they call that nose monitor long story i guess or a little extra little extra information you probably don't need okay let's go back to the face so i'm just taking my time and let's see the ear looks good the placement looks good and i think it's starting to look like him already um let's bring his hairline up a little bit further and then this part is comes down okay and let's place in the eyes and first i'm going to think about the structure that the bridge or not the bridge but the the orbital bone so if we took a rhythm from side to side we could see that bone you can see it in the photo pretty well it has a this little shape like this and then underneath you have the underside of that bone it's very prominent on him and his eyebrows are raised and that comes across on this rhythm like here like side to side and then underneath that is tucked really nicely the ball of the eye so that ball of the eye is under that orbital bone that's why we have that strong bone to protect our eyes when we get into fights or something falls from the tree or something and smacks us in the head we don't break our our eyeball we don't lose our sight so this bony ridge is protecting our eyes and let's see i'm going to continue actually throughout the whole face and then i'll come in with the details on the features so i'll come back and do the eyes on more detail in a second but let's look more at the uh the structure of the face here so then you've got the side plane of the nose the bridge of the nose that comes down and he has a pointed nose i made it kind of round right now but i can fix that pretty quickly just looking at the shadow shape and the structure of that nose put some angles on it now we got a little bit more of a pointed nose so let's look at the mouth now before we did the cheek overall rhythm we came in like pretty much disregard we're disregarding the mouth now let's put in that rhythm for the mouth and it's round and then over here so let me erase that line and that center line of the mouth isn't straight down from the center line of the head it's round as well so it kind of rounds out and then goes over that chin so to find the placement of the corners of the mouth in relationship to the bottom of the chin and bottom of the nose most of the time it's very rare to have it it's very rare to have it exactly halfway halfway is too low it needs to be closer to the nose than the chin so it's more like going to be on this line and we can look at the distance from the side of the nostril and the angle the distance and the angle and kind of eyeball it and then we can take a straight line like this and see where it relates to the eye itself it looks like it's pretty much lined up and now we can draw the philtrum this is the shape underneath the nose that's on the mouth and it creates like the cupid's bow there's a little shape in the front of the lips he has pretty thin lips but there is some some shape to them and then the far side part of the lip is vastly different shape because it's wrapping around the head so it's more more of a wedge shape and then this bottom lip it has like a little split in the middle and comes up and you can see the plane change in his lip there's a so the line the center line comes here and comes down wraps around the bottom lip then comes down again and then wraps around the chin and so that creates this cool shape underneath the mouth and this rhythm right here and then we can put the rhythm in for the chin itself and then the nasolabial fold which is not that pronounced on him and the mid-cheek furrow which would come down here but also you can't see it very well on him so putting those in on somebody that you can't see it very well will age them will make them look older so right away so now i see something see something wrong i see the distance from here to here is looks too long so i'm going to measure that and compare it to something else and see if i'm off um i think i'm okay so maybe it's the distance from the bottom of the nose to the corner maybe this is too long i think yeah i think the philtrum's too long let's see but i still i don't know i don't like this this feels awkward i think it's two things so before i change both of them let's move the lips up a little bit it's an easy fix because we are only doing the lay in we haven't done any shading so don't be afraid to like do big changes like this i used to i used to hate it like if i had to make a change like this i wouldn't i would try to like i would just ignore it it was like a weird like well how did i think that was going to work like if i just just kept working and ignored it i don't know or i would try to like shade it differently it was just like dude all you gotta do is just erase it and then make your correction and everything's fine like why you gotta like go through all this trouble to to try to like make workarounds for it just just freaking change it so i finally got broken of that pretty quick actually um in art school because there's just no time to like mess around like that because you you get 20 minutes and then you got to go on to the next drawing all right so maybe i need to make the mouth just a little bit longer so i brought it up a little bit and it helped a lot at least i think it did i do think i need to bring this lift over a little bit more oh i have this too narrow okay let's bring that over very slight just a tiny little change it can make a world of difference and then that rhythm of the muzzle the mouth comes over then we come down into the chin and wrap around okay i hope i'm not confusing you guys too much on this one especially at the beginning there uh let's see so got the mouth uh let's see got the chin rhythm let's do this rhythm here again now i'm going to do an angle from between the lips through the side of the nostril and somewhere over here along the eye and try to see [Music] if i got the eye placement correct so right through the lips the center line of the upper lip and then through the nostril and then the eye so this line helps a lot to place the eye so i need to bring this eye over and down so i think that's what was tripping me out earlier so i'll leave that in that that angle because that helps a lot so i came from the center of the lips through the side of the nostril and then when i was looking at the image and had my pencil up to it it was running along right on the side of the lower eyelid so that helped me identify that issue pretty quick let's let's do our ear real quick i really like drawing ears they're really fun i used to hate it i used to hate drawing ears and i avoided i just avoided a lot of things i didn't like apparently anything i had a hard time with i would just like oh not try to work on it but at certain point i did work on it and now i really like years i just spent like a week on the anatomy of the ear and ever since i just fell in love with it and it's funny it's like something that was so daunting and that may sound silly to you but to me at the time it was just like the ear what the heck is going on there's all these different folds and stuff i don't know but they have names so they once you start to learn the names then they become real and then you can identify them and then it just becomes second nature after a while so first you gotta you gotta learn their names and get to know them so that's why i like anatomy a lot because it really helps demystify what the heck is going on when you're trying to draw the human body or something so learning the names helps a lot and see then we can take this rhythm from here to here kind of look at that cheek rhythm let's see all right so let's go ahead and work on this eye so we have these overall basic rhythms shapes and let's see i don't like this jawline is too low i think that's what is also causing an issue here because i was looking at the corner of the mouth and the distance from where i had the jaw versus what i see and what i see is the jawline is further is closer to the corner than i have it so let's just make that adjustment such a big um it's like a square jaw so i kind of kind of threw me off a little bit let's see so the neck is about right there okay there's a cast shadow for the ear like that of course he's got those wrinkles in the neck so you see how many times you can like adjust things and when you get more information and then you see something that needs to be adjusted so just take your time and try not to beat yourself up because boy i sure do sometimes it never helps it's never like i don't think it ever helps anybody to get yelled at while they're trying to do something i don't know maybe it does but it doesn't for me i just get pissed and i start to lock up let's see so i'm just sketching this cast shadow underneath this lip here and thinking about what i need to do next see all right let's do the eyes okay so i want to locate the inside corners of the eye and i can do that by holding my pencil up making a vertical line from outside of the nostril and see if the corner of the eye is on that line it's really close so if i take a vertical line the inside corner of the eye is going to be somewhere on just on the outside and it looks like about right here i think that might work so let's put our little dot for the inside corner and the inside corner of this eye is behind the bridge of the nose and it would be about right there but you can't see it because of that nose so let's draw that eye first and then the eyeball is wrapping around on that far side it's not going to be pointed it's not going to be two points it's only going to be one you can't see it and then the other one is going to be round instead of a point because the eyeball is on the other side of the head and wrapping around and then we have the bottom eyelid comes out from behind the eye and wraps around to the front like this so it's like this little shelf right here and i made this a little pointed so let me smooth that out and then let's get that eyebrow shape a little bit better it's so dark i can't really see what the heck is going on over there so now we have this eye and again the inside corner is behind the nose behind the bridge of the nose but let's come over to ours we found ours on the side it's just on the inside of this line and it's come up and think about this ball that where we drew earlier because that's where our eye is going to um our eyelid is wrapping around that sphere and he's looking his iris is on this side so it's going to make this eye a little flat over here because this eye is pushing this eyelid and changing the shape to like a little flat edge and that's because our eyes if you look at our eyes from uh like here's our sphere of the eyeball and then we have the pupil and we're looking at a profile of the eye there's a lens and the lens kind of protrudes out like this so this is a iris pupil and then this is the lens that sits on top so so when our eye is tucked over in the corner of the eyelid like this this lens will um deform the shape of the eye a little bit it will change the shape of the eyelid excuse me so let's bring this over looking at the shape of the upper eyelid bam you just throw that right across and then come down because you want these two to match up i don't know what that's called that is that a gland like a tear duct is that what that i don't know why i just never figured that out i should i should look that up that little tiny little circle in the corner of the eye i should i don't know i should have a name i should find out what that is maybe it's just a tear duct i don't know uh so let's look so we got the upper eyelid uh we got you can still see the the circle we did for the general idea of the eyeball but now let's look at the eyelid the bottom eyelid and it wedges down and it roughly follows that rhythm and let's clean that up we've got a lot of different sketches going on from before so now we got the the bottom shape let's try to get the shelf look to the bottom eyelid because i'm looking at him i can see the bottom shelf of the eyelid so here's the border of the iris as it hits that eyelid on the bottom and this comes down and then we can see the top of the the ridge so it's like a it's like a construction going on here so now if we had a line coming down the head it would wrap around the brow hit the hit the eyelid on top come down wrap around the eyeball come across that top ledge of the bottom eyelid then fall down and then come down the cheek so you see how the form comes down wraps around it gives that three-dimensional look so let's do this iris over here and i'm going to put in a little highlight and then the pupil there's a little bit of highlight on this side too let me just darken things up hope this isn't too much information all at once it's just a lot of cool things about drawing portraits and i'm just i don't know i guess i'm in the flow today sometimes i hardly say anything i think and other times it just all spills out so let me go back to the eye so we got like a little bit of crow's feet and again let's push that rhythm kind of make that socket really nice and deep and come up here work on the core shadows a little bit showing that construction of the eye and then the eyebrows in general when the light is coming from the top the top of the eyebrow will be soft like the the edge will be soft compared to underneath it so underneath it's going to be a crisper edge because in that eye shadow or in the eyebrow there's a it kind of has more of a cast shadow quality to it than the top does the top is more it's getting more light blown into the the the individual hairs and it's a little bit more softer looking but on the bottom it's it creates like a little bit more of a harder edge and let's see what else can i work on in this guy i think that's pretty much it for this little head construction let's see you play with the side of your pencil to create texture for like hair that's always fun and let me clean this up a little bit and put some rhythms so that rhythe rhythm really helps to see that zygomatic arch and then of course we have the side plane in the head and the other rhythm comes down for the other side of the cheekbone but he has like a kind of a five o'clock shadow going on i don't need to get too heavy into the into the shading just a little bit let's put a little highlight on his nose a little indication of that i think that's pretty much it on this uh little head construction and kind of the basic concepts i don't like that hair on that far side it bugs me i mean i see it in the photo but when i draw it it just doesn't feel right i think what i'll do is kind of make a little bit more hollow or something hmm let's put some core shadow in our form shadows it's got transverse four forehead folds whatever they're called all right i think that's it so hopefully that made sense and um i'll leave those construction lines in so it might help you remember like especially this one come up to find the the inside corner of the eye coming straight across here you have the point of this eye but it's tucked in behind the nose and oh yeah i'd even do the cheek i gotta cut that cheek in a little bit because we did that far side point of the eye then the bottom eyelid came in and then the cheek behind it there we go all right guys thanks for watching i hope that made some sense or wasn't too much anyway um if you have any uh anything any ideas or any questions just hit me up in the messages and i'll get back to you and i'm pretty excited right now because i'm i'm working on uh getting the um what do you call it the uh the live stream set up uh two cameras one on me and one on my drawing board and so i did some practice on that over the weekend it was pretty cool eventually i have a i have another youtube channel that i like i do a lot of experiments and stuff on that nobody knows about so i was doing uh live streaming off of that and uh just having a lot of fun and i think i got a hang of it so i just got to get um i want to get the gopro up on the uh the live stream so i had to get a capture card to like get that to work so that just came in today so after this after i get this video edited and uploaded i think i'll go over and play with uh getting set up for the live streaming and also i'm going to be doing a zoom drawing club kind of thing i'm not sure how to set it up yet on patreon definitely a different tier but i'm not sure what days and stuff like that so um yeah so i'm playing with all kinds of ideas but definitely i want to get back online live i used to do that um back in the day and that was so much fun so i want to get get on that again um so i'm looking at this guy i don't like his nose i think it's a little too too big so just one quick fix just bring it down just a touch nothing crazy a little bit more pointed that's good let me put the it's got a little bit of a split in the middle i don't know if i got his likeness on this but at least you can understand the hopefully understand the construction i hope i explained it a little bit better and i'll try to remember to stick with using the eyes as getting the angle of the head versus the eyebrows because eyebrows can change depending on your your expression but your eyes corners are always going to be the same spot so all right i'll let this go alright thanks guys bye

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Id: 1BCMPG8h4FE

Length: 47min 48sec (2868 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 08 2021