how to draw heads from any angle

Contents

How to Depict the Head from Whatever Angle
- Basic Forms
- A Sphere equally the Cranium
- A Block as the Jaw and the Cheek Basic
- Constrution From any bending
  - Footstep 1 – Determine the Angle of the Ball
  - Step 2 – Find the Thirds
  - Stride three – Add together the Jaw
  - Stride four – Add the Features
- Video How to Draw the Caput
  - VIDEO 1 How to Describe the Caput from whatever Angle
  - VIDEO two How to Draw the Head – Front Wiew
  - VIDEO 3 How to Depict the Head – Side Wiew
  - VIDEO 4 How to Draw the Caput – Extreme Angels

How to Draw the Head from Any Angle

Source: Mainly based on textile from art painter Stan Prokopenko (http://www.stanprokopenko.com/ or http://www.proko.com)

example of different head angles

Bones Forms

To draw the head from any angle you must first understand its basic construction. Look past all the distracting details and visualize the underlying forms. This ability to simplify can be applied to the features of the face, simply when starting the cartoon you could wait fifty-fifty 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 & Easily".

The caput deconstructed into its basic forms, is asphereevery bit the cranium and ablock equally the jaw and cheek bones.

A Sphere as the Cranium

The sides of the head are flat, and then we tin piece off a slice from both sides of the ball. From profile, this airplane volition be a perfect circle, but when drawing it from whatsoever 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 forehead line. The top and lesser of the oval assist you lot notice the pilus line and the bottom of the olfactory organ.

volume of the cranium

A Block every bit the Jaw and the Cheek Bones

Attach the shape of the jaw. The height will outset at the brow line and the back will commencement at the center of the oval. This is a 3-D volume with a front plane, side planes, and lesser plane (bottom plane is seen from some angles).

volume of the jaw

Constrution From any angle

Stride 1 – Determine the Angle of the Ball

The angle of the caput is established at the very commencement of the drawing with the ball. All three axes must be addressed:

X Centrality – The up and downward tilt is established by the angles of the horizontal and vertical lines in the oval. Too, on extreme up tilts and downward tilts, the thirds volition be foreshortened because of perspective.

rotate x

Y Axis – The management the head is turning (left or right) is established by the width of the oval. Every bit the head turns towards you, you lot can run into more of the front of the face up and less of the side, and then the oval representing the side will get narrower. Similarly, when the head turns away from you, more of the side plane is revealed and the oval will announced wider.

Z Axis – The twist is established by the bending of the heart line, the angle of the oval and the placement of the oval on the ball.

Step 2 – Find the Thirds

Afterward establishing the angle of the ball, separate the face up into thirds. The distance between the hairline and brow-line should be the same as the altitude between the brow-line and lesser of the nose. Add that aforementioned distance to find the chin. Notice how the hairline and nose-line align with the summit and bottom bottom of the oval when wrapped around the face. Imagine the caput as a box. The thirds must be wrapped around the side plane and front plane.

Step 3 – Add together the Jaw

A common mistake at this point is to make the jaw too long in comparison to the ball. Make sure to mensurate your thirds correctly and that they chronicle correctly to the brawl. Discover how the shape of the jaw changes from various angles.