Project - Facial Features

Lesson by

Michael Hampton

inHead Drawing and Construction

525

Assignments 106

Downloads 6

Project - Facial Features

Lesson by

Michael Hampton

in Head Drawing and Construction

525

Assignments 106

Downloads 6

The assignment for this project is divided into two parts:

Development Drawings:
- Develop five heads based on your prior drawings that you are satisfied with.
- Concentrate on the features and details such as the tilt of the eye, the shape of the nose, and the form of the lips. Use these drawings to explore and refine the facial features.
New Drawings:
- Create five brand new head drawings from scratch.
- Work through the entire workflow from the initial sketch to detailing the soft tissue forms around the features like the lips.

This approach allows you to refine your skills both by developing existing works and by creating new ones, focusing on detailed facial features.

@kumaika

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19d

i havent had a lot of time lately but i'll try to finish this, here is #5 & #4 from the reference images. i tried to make it with as few construction lines as possible but that messed up the ear which i tried to correct on the first image but i forgot to do it on the second image. definitely need to work on noses & mouths. i will just add the other 8 as comments to this post as i can do them.

@kumaika

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11d

reference #1

@kumaika

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12d

redo of reference#2 i deleted the other one because the image wouldn't show up. but it was much worse than this one i think.

@kumaika

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18d

accidentally made the mouth too wide while i was distrscted at work, placed the mouth too low and tried to fix it, had trouble making the face look young enough as well but here is #3 from the reference pack

theartystu

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27d

This course has been so useful! Overall I've definitely improved doing these assignments, still proportional issues but I've been trying to really understand and show the form best I can (except in the portrait in my second photo, no idea what happened there). I think the lips have been the most challenging to show them wrapping across the form without resorting to using tone, so I might need to practice simplifying them more to nail that overarching curve around the denture sphere before adding on more complexity? Also trying to know how the form of the lips changes when the angle doesn't show one corner of the mouth is real tricky, gotta observe and practice some more! Thanks for the course Michael, your teaching style really gels with how I learn so I might check out the gesture course next!

Michael Hampton

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27d

Great studies! So glad to hear the course was useful!

Elijah R

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28d

I decided to take some time during a lunch break to draw these. I’m honestly perplexed, struggling to see the layer of fat under the skin and pinpointing where they should be marked. I remember you mentioned certain artists you take inspiration from. Do you have any other suggestions on how to learn the facial fat Mr. Hampton or how to find them on the face? @Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton

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27d

Excellent studies! Hmm, maybe check out the Anatomy 4 Sculptor's book on facial anatomy. They have some nice diagrams of the fat in there.

Richard W

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3mo

Likeness is not achieved, far form it. Trying to improve proportions as well as features. Longway to go :-) Any critique is welcome!

Michael Hampton

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3mo

Looking good! Likeness will come, if just keep doing what you're doing. Focus on form and getting those skull and feature planes in.

mike mcdonald

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3mo

Wow, made it to the end! Thank you @Michael Hampton for a great course. The first 5 images are just random photos I practiced on, the last 3 are from the reference set on here. Would love some feedback, I feel like one thing I'm doing wrong is making things feel like they are wrapping, I also feel like I'm struggling with the nose a lot.

Inner Man

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3mo

finally finished the course.I think i need I still need to improve on laying the facial features on to the construction, how to draw hair, and likeness. I would greatly appreciate any critiques. thank you so much for making the course.

Michael Hampton

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3mo

Nice work! Congratulations on finishing!

Ben Whitfield

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3mo

Phew, that was really hard. Here are my 10 drawings. I am proud of how I did but have a lot of improvement needed to make the facial features more accurate and frankly better. Thanks @Michael Hampton for the fantastic course. I really enjoy your teaching style. You are one of the best teachers to explain what and why you are doing something while you demonstrate it. I have bought all of your courses on Proko and will definitely buy anything else you create. Any critiques or suggestions for improvements on my drawings would be greatly appreciated.

Michael Hampton

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3mo

Nice job, Ben! Congrats on finishing the course! I think you got all of the structural elements of the skull and features down nicely. Only thing that sticks out is the proportions of the features. In some of the more front facing views the features seem a little stretched out. Maybe try double checking the length of your jaw or the halves and thirds? Again, congrats.

@josephl

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4mo

10 head drawings from scratch. I feel like I'm getting the 3D form down okay but I still struggle a lot with the eyes and some of the proportions. I also struggle with getting down the likeness too, I never feel like it looks anything close to the reference.

Anthony Hernandez

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4mo

Good work so far! I can see the 3D construction of the head underneath your drawings. It does seem when it comes to the eyes the sort of 3d construction is going away. You are still simplifying them to the sort of "symbol" of eyes that we have in our minds, so they look flat. Drawing spheres and then wrapping the eyelids around those spheres can help. As far as likeness goes that's all about the proportions. You'll have to start deviating from the "standard head" proportions in order to start getting likenesses. So you'll have to train your eye to notice the differences in the refernce faces like: distance between the eyes, width of the head, distance from eyes to the bottom of the nose, distance from bottom of nose to the mouth, distance from bottom of the lip to bottom of the chin, jaw angles, etc. Basically once you learn the "standard" proportions that gives you the freedom to break them and start achieving likeness.

Ron Kempke

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4mo

Construction, construction, construction. I don't see any. Including it in your studies would help you improve.

@jowherr

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4mo

I've learned a lot from this class. Your method and style of teaching is what has worked for me in my search for a drawing teacher. You are a blessing in the art industry.

Courts

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4mo

Hi Everyone! Just finished the assignment, I actually just did these 8 from scratch. i know they are far from perfect so any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance 🙏🏽

Lane Campbell

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4mo

Nealy done, just need to do the last 5 of the heads I had drawn before. These are over the course of a week of heads I had drawn in my free time. The bottom left one is my first attempt at a self portrait in years actually

@purpleart

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5mo

Carrying on with my revisit of this course. Things that I found out this time. 1) It can be quite hard to do the early stages with the skull when there is a lot of hair acting like a shroud and shadows hiding some of the forms. In addition picture three was front on which made the perspective even more difficult to judge. It went wrong so I scribbled in some tone before I gave up! 2) From this I learned that I should consider the customisation of the proportions early on. Particularly as when drawing in pencil, I can't press a magic button to reduce the opacity of the gesture lay-in! 3) Noses are difficult. Sometimes with turned up noses it's easy to think that because the underside is showing, the perspective is from below. But it isn't. BUT, approaching the size decreasing forms as perspectives makes drawing a lot less stressfull and much more enjoyable, even meditative. Always have the MH mantra in my head - "You're never really drawing the "thing"".

Yevhen Syrchin

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6mo

Why do the lips look so weird? Please give me some criticism.

Michael Hampton

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6mo

The design looks fine. If anything the lips could wrap around the denture sphere more. Be sure you draw that whole egg representing the teeth and their relationship to the rest of the face. Second, you could develop the individual perspectives of the parts by giving a corner to the upper and lower lip.

Huy Vuong

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6mo

Finally finished the course. I gonna say this course is really struggle but it good for my brain. The last half of the lesson is good one. Learning facial features is tough one. I have to revisit it few times . Thanks for lessons Mr hampton

Michael Hampton

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6mo

Great studies and congrats on finishing!

Josh Fiddler

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6mo

Some preliminary heads before going deep... More later

Blue

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7mo

hello there, i just completed the course, and im very thankful for all the great knowledge imparted, its only my own limited brain power that is struggling with putting it to actual use. the traditional drawings are all referenced and the digital coloured ones are done from imagination. i tried to experiment with asymmetries in the digital ones but i seem to just make them skewed instead of achieving a natural look. sigh. still, i am very glad i took the course: now i have a solid understanding of how i am supposed to be building heads and not just winging it. thanks a lot, Mr Hampton, i will surely come back to this course and revisit the lessons <3

Michael Hampton

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7mo

Oooh! Cool stuff! Congratulations on finishing!

Jiljean Yow

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8mo

I’m still working through the rest, but I’m wondering why does this one’s jaw look just a bit too big? Or are there other problems making it look weird?

Paul Williams

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8mo

Hey, looks like you're having the same problem I sometimes have! I think the issue is that the facial features are too narrow in proportion to the rest of the head. Basically, it looks like the centre line for her features is too far to the left. If you look at the sphere of her skull, I think the central line should be about one-third of the way across (about level with where you have the corner of her left eye), where as you've drawn it much earlier than that. One way to check that you've aligned stuff correctly is to compare it with the reference, if you look at her picture and mentally draw a line down from her left eye then you see it sits within her neck and the edge of her nose is about level with it, but on your drawing both are quite far from being aligned with her neck. So yeah, I think a misaligned centre line has caused the issue here. The jaw itself looks about right, though her ear is a bit too short (the top of the ear should be around the mid-point of that side plane).

Yoran Bordewijk

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8mo

This is hard but also very fun to do. I'm improving so much thanks to these lessons. Open jaws really confuse me tho, I dont really understand it, yet! But I will..

Michael Hampton

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8mo

Looking good!

@lauralana

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8mo

First are the five heads from the development drawings and then five new drawings. Thanks for any feedback! I know I tended to overwork some of them, but it was challenging to avoid doing that. I like the solidity of the second new drawing (of the woman glancing left, so I can see some progress. Thanks!