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Learn the basics of portraiture with lessons on how to draw the head from any angle and how to draw facial features.
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Loomis Method – Real-Time Demo
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Drawing the Loomis head.
It is not helpful to watch you find the lines for the face when we can’t see what you are referring to.
I think I've gotten decent at observation, but until I can do it myself, I won't feel right. I've put off a lot of fundamentals for a long time, so I'm finally going to go through this course and build a better foundation.
Just some notes for me as I was working on it. About 20 minutes, so a bit longer than Stan. The ellipse on the side of the head can really mess with my proportions if I don't get it right.
I always have this problem where I draw eyes too big, so slowly shrinking them down each time I attempt.
I resized and redrew a few small sections after I finished, to closer match Stan's drawing, notable was raising the lips, the fat pads beside the lips, slightly shrinking the eyes, raising the cheekbone slightly, moving the eyes slightly further apart. So I'll need to keep these in mind going forward.
(it doesn't seem to be letting me attach an image, but I'll try again later perhaps)
Heres my first attempt at following along! This reallt helped me i always struggle with nose and having to draw it 3d so thank you! My mom reqlly liked this drawing and i cant wait to come back and redo it better :D
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5mo
Very nice!
Hi Stan,
how do the proportion of hairline, brow, nose chin change for children/toddlers?
I tried to do some of my own after this demo. The likeness and proportions are definitely not there yet, but I do think that I got the understanding of the loomis head in 3/4 view down. Any critique or tips are very welcome!
It was fun and definitely easier than trying to get that 3d model from weird angles.
Looking for feedback.
I followed this video for this drawing. Pretty tough but I know it’ll get easier with a lot of practice. This was my first attempt. I fully plan on doing this again to see how the attempts compare.
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2yr
Hey there! I think you're off to a good start with your guidelines and construction of the head, it's just mostly the placement of the features that could be tweaked a bit. For the first guideline across the face, you have the brow placement already, but it seems too compressed and close with the eyes, that giving them more space and placing the eyes further down would help. The second guideline will have the nose. The bottom portion seems pretty good with the mouth/jaw proportion, just keep in mind to continue the perspective that the rest of the guidelines follow. Hope this helps! :)
I think I just need to work on the hair more. I was never really good at drawing hair to begin with but I still wanted feedback on how I can improve.
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2yr
Looking good! You have some solid construction that already gives a good impression of 3-dimensionality. The thing I'd recommend is rounding out the edge furthest from the viewer, as that slight curve better fits the perspective of the rest of the features. With the side of his head visible, and the eyes/nose/mouth facing left, the side of his head furthest away will look smaller as it turns away.
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My suspicions have been confirmed. The Loomis method isn’t very effective if you don’t fully understand the planes of the face and facial rhythms.
Drawing the features onto the Loomis guidelines feels like wrapping a gift. It’s 3-dimensional, but we lose the nuances of the face.
I have a question guys will Loomis method work on images like this, I think its a foreshortened image thats why standard ratios might not work. Please suggest.
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It’s not exactly the same, but you can use it as a guideline
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It will work, go back to the 3D model and rotate the Loomis head just like this.
