Learn how to break down head proportions using key landmarks and simple measurements, enhancing the accuracy and character of your head drawings.
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M. Kay
22d
When dividing the head in half between the brow ridge and the chin to place the nose. Do you measure from the top of the brow ridge or the bottom of the brow ridge? The marks on the photograph and the markings on the sketch for brow area don't look the same to me. Thanks.
@joshhrnnd
4mo
@veryartthing
4mo
I have to admit I'm starting to feel frustrated with this course.
I feel like I'm being bombarded with a ton of information and a lot of it isn't super relevant to what I'm trying to study at the moment. I don't get why you go on so many tangents about gender differences when I'm just trying to digest averages in this video. I don't need to know all that right now, I need to focus on these basics first. It makes it really hard to figure out what I should actually be taking note of and zeroing in on.
@michaelkopa007
4mo
@ejsilapas
4mo
Follow along attempt, looking forward to approaching this much more systematically in subsequent lessons!
@lieseldraws
4mo
Hi everyone, I attempted one of the photos from the critique, trying to get it closer to the reference. It was a struggle to make the ellipse equatorial without warping it. Also used my best guesses to place the jaw and underplane ...But I'm still lost as ever about where exactly the jaw is in relation to the cranial mass. I'm always asking, how close should the jaw be to that circle? A little further down? Or actually inside the circle? Hope intuition for placement improves with practice 😭
The end result didn't quite match the original so I moved up the chine like in the third photo. Any advice or critique would be appreciated. Thanks :)
@meeho
4mo
Can't wait for the next lesson 😭
@hgriff
4mo
This was really helpful! I love that part about the cheekbone. The Loomis line never made sense to me either. Still struggling with the head gesture though, but that's just going to take more practice.
Tatiana Kopteva
4mo
I hope I got it right. I can't wait for the next lesson, thank you again!
Tatiana Kopteva
4mo
Thank you for your explanations! And thanks to everyone who took the time to find unique photos, it helps not just you but everyone during the critique, you are my heroes
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Educator, painter, writer, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention.