Project - Facial Features

Lesson by

Michael Hampton

inHead Drawing and Construction

450

Assignments 90

Downloads 6

Project - Facial Features

Lesson by

Michael Hampton

in Head Drawing and Construction

450

Assignments 90

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.

@josephl

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20d

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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20d

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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20d

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

@jowherr

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29d

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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29d

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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1mo

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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2mo

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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2mo

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

Michael Hampton

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2mo

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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3mo

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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3mo

Great studies and congrats on finishing!

Josh Fiddler

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3mo

Some preliminary heads before going deep... More later

Blue

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4mo

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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4mo

Oooh! Cool stuff! Congratulations on finishing!

Jiljean Yow

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5mo

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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5mo

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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5mo

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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5mo

Looking good!

@lauralana

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5mo

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!

Thieum

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6mo

For this one I tried to apply a 3 values study according to the volumes of the face. But with hard edges only

Ash

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6mo

great work!

Michael Hampton

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6mo

Nice

Thieum

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6mo

Pencil drawings made during the Christmas holidays spent away from my graphics tablet.

Michael Hampton

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6mo

Solid!

Thieum

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6mo

2 studies that gave me a hard time, especially the second one. I had a really hard time understanding the planes of the cheekbone. I needed to do some tracing on the reference. I also did some skull studies, to better understand the cheek and visualize the anterior and lateral planes of the face.

Thieum

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7mo

Thieum

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7mo

Thieum

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7mo

My first 2 drawings from the previous ones

Patrick Bosworth

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7mo

Excellent!!

@aub

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8mo

This is my final assignment for the head drawing and construction course. I did the five drawings from the previous one and the five new ones. I did some basic shading because why not? I still need a lot of practice but I feel like this class sent me on the right path. I love Michael's teaching and I feel I have improved drawing the head. Most importantly, as I got further into each lesson, I understood that the method is awesome for inventions. (You could have a construction from one reference and change the features and lighting and design something different) If you can read this and have not taken this course, don't hesitate.