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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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I’m about to embark on this project but before I do that, I did a head trying to put in everything I learned so far, adding more detail on top of the schematic. A lot of classes jump suddenly in difficulty but this gradual buildup has been incredibly helpful (at least for my brain that requires a fair bit of handholding) and I think it shows in the different stages of practice. Still have a looong way to go but I’ve been struggling a lot with placing the features and it’s nice to get closer and not feel like you’re wildly guessing. That stage where you learned the loomis method but then add features flat on top is so frustrating to go through. so being able to locate the brow line with a system instead of measuring everything part by part has been a game changer.
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Practice incorporating proportional measurements into your existing drawings, focusing on brow-to-chin distances and dividing the face into halves and thirds. Then, create 20 new drawings, spending about 5 minutes on each, applying all five steps you've learned.
This time limit helps maintain focus, but it's flexible if needed. The goal is to reinforce good habits and avoid overthinking or underdoing your work.
We have 20 new reference images that you can use in the downloads section as well!
These are the original 20 heads from the first exercise and I did them as fast as I could but it still took hours...
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3d
These look awesome
I can honestly say that none of these were done in 5 minutes 😅 Some took a couple of minutes longer, others took a LOT longer. Whenever something looks off, I find it hard to just move on to the next one. I know speed is important, but I also want to understand what I’m doing.
I’m curious how other students deal with this. Basically: speed vs accuracy / perfectionism. Any tips?
My eraser got a work out on this one but it really is a lot of fun. My first set started feeling too much like the cenobites from Hellraiser so on the next set i tried my hand at adding the planes. I think I've got to work on chins for sure.
Project - Proportions: I feel pretty good bout these. I have been trained to draw what I see, so this is tricky for me. I understand what Michael means about the neck, but I have a hard time not seeing and drawing what is there in the reference photo. The last head, looking at the sky was a challenge for me to see if I understood the under plane of the chin and neck. Not my favorite, but I did it.
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1mo
Great job 👏🏻
I'm enjoying these drawing exercises. It forces me to draw several angles where as before I would just draw the front, 3/4, and side angles.
Wow. One of the most important things I learned from this assignment was how much I need to go back and work more on primitives! These images are my assignment work before I watched the critique. But...
I had trouble figuring out the under plane of the chin. From the critique, it sounds like many of us did. After my first pass on the assignment, I found it very helpful to open primitives in Zolly and then rotate them to match the perspective of the head I was looking at to give me a better understanding of how to think about the volume. Hope that's helpful for anyone else that was struggling with the chin!
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3mo
Great starts. Love the use of zolly to help out. Good thinking there.
Hi @Steven Michael Hampton!
hope you’re doing well.
i just got back into this course and I’m definitely feeling rusty. Could you quickly take a look at what I’m doing, it doesn’t feel right. Could please help me get back into it?
wishing you a great day.
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4mo
Welcome back! Looks like you've got all the steps! I think it would be good to also get that side plane in. Start bringing some dimension to that initial ball shape. Otherwise, I think it's just about getting back into the process and you'll refine minor proportion issues easily.
My take on the assignment. Pretty happy with how they turned out, I took about 10 mins for each instead of the 5 cause I was vibin. Adding hard angles to the skull was a big help for me and I feel like I actually started to understand the planes a bit better. Couldn't resist putting some eyes on them either.
I have the same doubt, i feel i still stuggle doing these.
Should i really go further on the course or should i hold and practice these? i really dont know
Hi @Michael Hampton ! I did this assignment, watched the critiques, reviewed it again, checked with flipped canvas and I can't spot my errors anymore. Could please mention some attention points, so I can prepare myself for the next stage?
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7mo
I think you should move on to the next steps. Everything here looks good.
