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This course teaches students to draw realistic human heads, from basic structure to detailed features, using Loomis-inspired techniques.
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Educator, painter, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention and Gesture Drawing: Dynamic Movement and Form.
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Complete 20 portrait drawings using the full 8 Step Method.
- Shape of the Skull: Focus on the skull's gesture, its tilt, and two-dimensional axes.
- Jaw and Cross: Establish the jawline and cross-sections, combining the center line with the brow.
- Perspective: Find perspective by observing the relationship between the brow and the ear.
- Proportions: Discuss and mark the proportions, noting halves and thirds from the brow to the chin.
- Side Plane: Explore the side plane of the head, incorporating elements like the ear and jaw.
- Eye Sockets: Introduce the eye sockets with a basic "planar visor" before progressing to a more detailed three-tiered plane.
- Nose Development: Develop the nose from the keystone to the tip, and then from the tip to the base.
- Chin and Denture Sphere: Focus on the large, rhythmic shapes of the chin and the area around the denture sphere.
Half of these should build upon previous work and the other half should start from scratch using the reference images provided in the downloads tab.
Each drawing should ideally be completed in a 10-minute timeframe, although extending to 15 minutes is acceptable.
Did some of these alone, some as draw alongs with the critique video. Honestly I’m having some trouble with the denture sphere, as well as my lines for the proportions and how they;re supposed to wrap around the ellipse; I feel like I wrap them too much. I also feel like my jaw ends up being too high (in terms of the corner we draw from the ellipse to the chin, instead of the two lines being equal they end up with one of them being a lot shorter than the other).
I guess more practice will solve these? Just want to make sure I’m not creating bad habits.
It took a while, life happens when you're making plans.
I think on #8 the face is to long. #15 was very challenging.
By the end I feel I got the hang of it.
They all look like Arnold Schwarzenegger from the Terminator Movies.
It took three days and three sketchbooks but I got all 20 heads in. I find the step with the head elipse oddly satisfying. It's like it's the last step before the drawing really starts to look human.
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1mo
Nice studies
In preparation for the facial features assignment, I chose a male and female from multiple racial groups in order to get a feel for their various physiognomatic differences. This should allow me to invent or stylize faces from various racial groups better in the future? Perhaps what I'm trying to glean from this exercise will become more apparent to me after the facial features assignment.
Upper and lower angles are definitely a challange! Also trying to keep the frontal proportion of the head to chin in upper and lower angles are definitely hard and needs some time to build from reference. But i think i got the gist of it.
Tried to do the assignment both digitally and analog. had some issue with knowing how big side circle should be. Also kinda messed up when ever the head was at a extreme angle
My assignment, along with an attempt from my first attempt at this course earlier this February.
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2mo
Nice!
every time i would think "ok, i think i have got it now" i would draw something horrendous. anyways hopefully i ll get the hang of it with time as i move on to next lessons.
Hi @Michael Hampton ! After carefully reviewing my drawings and the lessons, including the critique class, here is my final result. Is there any point I am missing before going to the next lesson that I should focus on?
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7mo
They look great! Ready for the next lessons!
As promised, here are another 10 drawings. There are 3 of them where I mashed up steps from the Loomis Method, and the 8 Steps. I feel for me a couple things
1. the perspective ellipses sometimes is difficult for me to obtain, so I use a combination of the Loomis side plane ellipse plus the angles from brow to ear to help me get the angle right. If I’m able to see the correct ellipse then I use that. If I use the Loomis side plane ellipse I find the temple and the ear and encompass the ellipse around these features.
2. I try to combine the tilt and the “t”/ Jaw step together. I don’t think that’s a big deal bc the centerline is supposed to be parallel to the tilt angle.
@Michael Hampton do the examples where I did this (the last three drawings) hold up ? I guess is there any reasons you could see not to combine the methods? Thanks !
Here are the 10 heads that were downloaded from this assignment page. Any suggestions are welcome. I will attach another 10 in another post as they are fresh from another site. One thing sometimes that hangs me up is the right ellipse pattern; it usually depends on the head tilt being a bit different from normal. I remember there was a way to get the elliptical pattern correct. I think it was on one of the critique videos but if anyone remembers the tip for that it would be most appreciated. It’s not the elliptical center using the main axis it was another tip. Thanks!
That last one looks a lot like my first one I did (ESA 01 - the guy with a ponytail) so I feel at least some comfort looking at your picture that I’m doing okay. Haha
