Now you can draw the head from ANY angle. Start by drawing some extreme head angles from imagination. Test yourself to see if you fully understand the loomis head forms. Then check your work with the 3D Loomis Head model. Practice drawing a few more angles by placing the model in angles you are having trouble with. The goal is to challenge yourself and overcome your weaknesses.

@grugrugru

24d

First and third page from imagination went better than expected. Real life reference was harder than I thought. The ones with circled numbers I had more trouble with. Critique or advice is appreciated :) challenging exercise this one.

Jesper Axelsson

23d

Nice! It might help to pay more attention to the overall shape of the head. In #16 you've drawn the shape less compressed than it is in the photo. What's your art goal? Drawing like animators might help a lot if you want to draw from imagination. In these drawings https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/508/2740/1600/ariel04.jpg by Glenn Keane, the character is built with large shapes. Starting with that, the major shape that you then break down, working outside in, is something I've found to work better when drawing from imagination than working inside out, arriving at the shape through a construction method. You might appreciate this lesson video How Animators Use Basic Shapes with Aaron Blaise Cheers!

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@ern1s

2mo

Hi guys, sorry for bad quality pic, its the best i could get from my scanner. I struggle to understand where to position and what size i should draw cranium. Hit and miss every time for me.. any suggestions?

Martha Muniz

2mo

Hi there! Since we start drawing the head with the cranium, it's more of the surrounding shapes we add that influence whether it feels in proportion, and we can use the cranium as a base for those measurements. You seem to have good proportions already though, so the only thing to work on would be the alignment/placement of the landmarks together. It helps to think about the shape of the head as whole simplified into a box, with each side of the box representing a side of the head. You can practice starting out with a box, then drawing in the head, or just using a box to check your work. Boxing things up helps find and correct perspective mistakes, which is key to making a drawing appear believably three-dimensional. Below is a quick drawover and an image from the first head drawing lesson. Hope this helps!

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S R

3mo

Nine from imagination and nine referring to the 3D model. Low angles are very difficult, I think I might be drawing the front of the face too long.

Crimson The Vixen

4mo

20/8/2023 How about more?

Crimson The Vixen

4mo

20/8/2023 Some More.

Crimson The Vixen

4mo

20/8/2023 And more.

Crimson The Vixen

4mo

20/8/2023 Posting some left extra angles I didn’t know I had.

@nightfall

4mo

extreme angles, i dont have enough time to draw today so this looks messy

Marco Sordi

4mo

2023/8/15. Good afternoon everybody. Just having fun with some extreme angles head study. The last one is the worst case to me: almost front view but upward looking face. What’s your worst case? I’d like to know😉 Thanks and have a good evening.

Crimson The Vixen

4mo

13/8/2023 Final Set of Angles. (This week)

Crimson The Vixen

4mo

13/8/2023 Third Set of Angles.

Crimson The Vixen

4mo

13/8/2023 Second Set of Angles.

Crimson The Vixen

4mo

13/8/2023 First set of angles.

Alex S

4mo

Tried doing some loomis heads from reference and imagination Personally, drawing in the side planes of the head at extreme angles has proven to be the most difficult. Any advice is appreciated