Help please: planes of the head
4mo
@silentmoonss
Hello. I’m having difficulty with the planes of the head primarily with the eye , brow section. I’m not understanding the hooded area section and how it looks as plains. I’ve done multiple draw overs but it just wasn’t clicking for me to understand. I know the eyes are deep within the eye socket I know that the nose shares a plane with the tear duct of the eye but what I’m not understanding is the hairy eyebrow section and the overhanging section to me they literally look like desperate planes like the eye brow is on top but then that lump and flesh that’s below it before it we get to the actual eye is confusing me here’s a picture of what I mean. The 2nd image was my attempt but it didn’t look right this is my 30th attempt( I’m not exaggerating)
4mo
The eyebrow is misleading part because it's based on skim. What you should do is look at the structure of the skull, especially the eye socket, the supraorbital bump is actually the "eyebrow".
That lump and flesh thing is a fat pad, in some people it shrink or being big enough to fill the edge of the top eye lid. If you are new, just pass it and make it dark that part below the eyebrow for correct structure. Then you can make some research about the fat pads to make it look more correct.
And try to find some portrait picture which has a normal face, I mean no emotional expression tp make face studying more clearly.
The shadows might be causing some confusion for you because they exaggerate how much the surface changes. A quick simplification is to use 1 plane for the forehead and 1 plane for the eye socket. The bone sticks out a bit around the eyebrow area. If you want to add more detail around the top plane of the eye, think of it as a ribbon or a rubber band that bulges out slightly as it wraps from the nose to the outside of the eye socket. The leading edge attaches to the top of the eye socket & the trailing edge attaches behind the eyeball.
@silentmoonss
4mo
Hello I tried to implement what you said but it still isn’t really clicking if you have time may you please show me what you mean thanks again for replying to me. I was using this digital link https://sketchfab.com/models/9d26548182f8465a8e97371a9170561e/embed?autostart=1&internal=1&tracking=0&ui_ar=0&ui_infos=0&ui_snapshots=1&ui_stop=0&ui_theatre=1&ui_watermark=0
to hell me and this digital Asaro head seemed to have that on the older side of the Asaro head multiple planes coinciding with each other so it was hard for me to know what is the top plane and what is the bottom plane and how did the glabella region connect with these planes. So when I drew it on the figure though it varies It should more or less make sense.
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@Jesper Axelsson
@Liandro hello I’m not sure if I’m allowed to tag you but may you please offer some advice sorry I’m just so confused and studying on my own ain’t really getting me anywhere I’ve taken a look at proko portrait course , Marco’s Bucci’s course and many YouTube videos. Im not understanding the planes of the eye just that section alone
