tailieunhanh - How to Draw the Head From Any Angle

To draw the head from any angle you must first understand its basic structure. Look past all the distracting details and visualize the underlying forms. This ability to simplify can be applied to the features of the face, but when starting the drawing you could look even further. Ignore even the features and simplify to the most basic form of the head. I use a method taught by Andrew Loomis in his book, “Drawing the Head & Hands”. The head deconstructed into its basic forms, is a sphere as the cranium and a block as the jaw and cheek bones. . | How to Draw the Head How to Draw the Head From Any Angle The Basic Forms To draw the head from any angle you must first understand its basic structure. Look past all the distracting details and visualize the underlying forms. This ability to simplify can be applied to the features of the face but when starting the drawing you could look even further. Ignore even the features and simplify to the most basic form of the head. I use a method taught by Andrew Loomis in his book Drawing the Head Hands . The head deconstructed into its basic forms is a sphere as the cranium and a block as the jaw and cheek bones. Page 1 How to Draw the Head A Sphere as the Cranium The sides of the head are flat so we can slice off a piece from both sides of the ball. From profile this plane will be a perfect circle but when drawing it from any other angle it will appear to be an oval because of perspective. Divide this oval into quadrants. The vertical line represents the beginning of the jaw. The horizontal line represents the brow line. The top and bottom of the oval help you find the hair line and the bottom of the nose. A Block as the Jaw and Cheek Bones Attach the shape of the jaw. The top will start at the brow line and the back will start at the center of the oval. This is a 3-D volume with a front plane side planes and bottom plane bottom plane is seen from some angles . Page 2 How to Draw the Head Constructing From Any Angle Step 1 - Determine the angle of the ball The angle of the head is established at the very beginning of the drawing with the ball. All three axes must be addressed X Axis - The up and down tilt is established by the angles of the horizontal and vertical lines in the oval. Also on extreme up tilts and down tilts the thirds will be foreshortened because of perspective. Y Axis - The direction the head is turning left or right is established by the width of the oval. As the head turns towards you you can see more of the front of the face and less of the side so .