How to Draw the Head – Side View

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How to Draw the Head – Side View

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Portrait Drawing Fundamentals

1.9M

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Draw the Loomis Head - Side View

Browse the interwebs for “side profile pictures” and choose your favorite ones. Practice constructing the loomis head from the side view using what you learned in this lesson. This time, try to capture the proportions and characteristics of the subject. Figure out how they are different from the average loomis head proportions and make sure to capture those differences. Observe the major angle changes of the forehead, brow, nose, lips and chin of the contour.

faye zhang

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7mo

Reminder: everyone who posted is brave for pushing through and meeting the challenges. It’s easy for bystanders to critique, but only we know how difficult it was and the mental obstacles we had to overcome to draw. So keep at it! The eye is too low on my drawing, but hey drawing along is not easy.

maciek szczech

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7mo

Thank you @faye zhang. Comment nesting does not allow me to reply directly under your question: Quite a long time ago, without really studying and understanding the basics that I took seriously at the beginning of this year. I hope you don't mind such an enigmatic reply, but in the end it doesn't really matter. We are all different, some will be great at what they do relatively quickly, others will not achieve much even with hard practice.. although hard practice does pay off

maciek szczech

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7mo

Good reminder. Good profile sketch. Keep up practicing!

Melanie Scearce

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7mo

Agreed, it takes a lot of courage to make a drawing, even more to post it! Nice work here 👍

soupbonep Lee

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7mo

soupbonep Lee

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7mo

From the free Loomis series it wasn't supposed to look like Stan, but I used a screen shot at the end to finish it as he was not only the narrator, but the head model. I hope you think it is a good likeness.

Vera Robson

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8mo

@smeet

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7mo

this is great

Gannon Beck

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8mo

Well done!

@sharpjab

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8mo

Nicole Guz

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9mo

Pedro Branco

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1yr

Here's a side view drawing. I lost the reference sadly.

Jack Mills

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1yr

Side view sketches.

@kaskaderski

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1yr

@dcordes

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1yr

Can't wait to get to eyes/nose/ears/mouth so I have a better idea of what I'm doing there. Profile, and the attention to relative angles was really useful exercise. I made very large improvements over the course of this exercise. Still struggling with shading, but getting a bit better. Ratios are difficult as well. I'm happiest with 5, although the head is a bit stretched.

@grugrugru

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1yr

S R

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2yr

It's tricky! I often feel like I don't have enough space for the jaw.

S R

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2yr

I tried another four, to incorporate feedback. Getting a little closer.

Martha Muniz

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2yr

When drawing the profile view, keep in mind that the features typically protrude outwards from the flat front face plane. This will be in varying degrees from person to person, so it helps to note the curvature created from the forehead to the nose to the jaw. This extra space can account for the room you feel is needed for the jaw area. Hope this helps!

@nightfall

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2yr

heres attempt for todayy

*Reworking Profile* From The Game.

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2yr

6/8/2023 Side View Starter.

*Reworking Profile* From The Game.

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2yr

30/7/2023 Side view of the head.

Alex S

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2yr

I'll need to work on features a bit more... If it's not the proportions that are off then it's the shapes

Martha Muniz

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2yr

There's a tendency to keep the features close to the loomis center line, and while this proportion changes from person to person, generally the features protrude further out. It helps to note down the angle of this curvature, something like forehead to nose to chin. It also helps with placing the smaller curves, like the mouth, eye sockets, nostrils, etc. but feel free to continue noting down the smaller angles for these on the reference itself.