WEBVTT 00:00:00.571 --> 00:00:02.130 Hey there folks. 00:00:02.130 --> 00:00:05.502 I just wanted to do a little video about how I would approach 00:00:05.502 --> 00:00:09.002 this drawing of the head, this assignment that you have. 00:00:09.002 --> 00:00:12.841 Remember that the goal is to work from general towards the specifics 00:00:12.841 --> 00:00:15.328 so I'm thinking structure and gesture here. 00:00:15.328 --> 00:00:18.824 So I'm thinking about how if I were sculpting this out of clay, 00:00:18.824 --> 00:00:22.219 I would start with a giant mass in the front that would be like an egg, 00:00:22.219 --> 00:00:24.952 and then kind of a ball-like form in the back. 00:00:24.952 --> 00:00:27.795 And then the neck is basically a cylinder. 00:00:28.645 --> 00:00:31.622 Now I'm drawing a line across the brow, 00:00:32.631 --> 00:00:34.431 and the bottom of the nose, 00:00:35.429 --> 00:00:38.156 and the middle of the lips, between the lips. 00:00:39.852 --> 00:00:41.805 This is the central axis that runs 00:00:41.805 --> 00:00:44.348 through the middle of the nose, middle of the mouth. 00:00:44.348 --> 00:00:48.599 That's going to avoid a common problem which is having the nose at one angle 00:00:48.599 --> 00:00:51.751 and then the mouth pushed off to the side at another angle. 00:00:51.751 --> 00:00:55.017 Now I'm carving out, again, the side of the head. 00:00:55.017 --> 00:00:57.248 I'm thinking about this mouth barrel. 00:00:58.067 --> 00:01:00.922 I'm thinking about the roundness of the form of the chin. 00:01:01.557 --> 00:01:04.591 Drawing the eyeline now, just roughly placing the eye. 00:01:04.591 --> 00:01:08.966 But I'm not getting into little details. Just trying to see about where it would go. 00:01:08.966 --> 00:01:13.745 There's that side plane of the temple, the hairline. 00:01:15.786 --> 00:01:18.997 Don't want to ignore things like the hairline and the forehead. 00:01:18.997 --> 00:01:23.395 I don't want to get too caught up in facial features and looking at eyes, 00:01:23.395 --> 00:01:27.587 nose, mouth too soon because these things, 00:01:28.833 --> 00:01:31.850 these big, big masses are the most important. 00:01:32.499 --> 00:01:38.053 The features are going to develop out of those major masses of the skull. 00:01:43.972 --> 00:01:46.058 The first part was real time. 00:01:46.058 --> 00:01:51.433 I've sped it up now a little bit just so, it makes this video a little bit shorter. 00:01:54.310 --> 00:01:57.315 Okay, I don't want to forget the shoulders, either, because I need something 00:01:57.315 --> 00:01:59.351 for this head to sit on. 00:02:01.475 --> 00:02:05.629 Now I'm going back in and I'm looking at some of those secondary forms. 00:02:05.629 --> 00:02:10.651 So I've started out with, you know, a chainsaw, and now I'm going in with a chisel, 00:02:10.651 --> 00:02:13.593 and I'm getting a little bit more refinement. 00:02:14.700 --> 00:02:18.251 I'm looking at things like the shapes of shadow 00:02:18.251 --> 00:02:20.326 between one thing and another. 00:02:20.326 --> 00:02:24.621 I'm trying to see what's the space like between the tip of the nose to the cheek. 00:02:24.621 --> 00:02:28.116 I think it's really important that you don't get too tied down 00:02:28.116 --> 00:02:30.338 to one little area at a time. 00:02:30.338 --> 00:02:36.093 Think general, work around the whole thing. It's easier to keep your proportions that way. 00:02:36.093 --> 00:02:39.669 So I'm looking at these shapes of light and shadow that I'm seeing 00:02:41.001 --> 00:02:43.518 next to the nose, below the nose. 00:02:44.223 --> 00:02:49.228 That's helpful, really, somewhat for structure, but also it helps me to see shape 00:02:49.228 --> 00:02:51.305 of light next to shape of dark. 00:02:51.305 --> 00:02:55.565 I can sort of compare that size of one shape to the size of another. 00:02:55.565 --> 00:02:59.702 Looking at shapes of lights and shadows, just another kind of a right brained approach 00:02:59.702 --> 00:03:02.601 where you're trying to think of the shape of a light, 00:03:02.601 --> 00:03:05.164 and the shape of a dark, and they're fitting together 00:03:05.164 --> 00:03:10.293 like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, and if those shapes are both correct, 00:03:10.293 --> 00:03:14.076 and they fit together right, then that's your proportion. 00:03:14.076 --> 00:03:19.624 So it's a wonderful way to draw the head without really thinking so much about the head. 00:03:19.624 --> 00:03:22.543 So it's kind of back and forth thinking about structure, 00:03:22.543 --> 00:03:26.994 but then also thinking in a, in a more right brained kind of way also. 00:03:26.994 --> 00:03:29.901 And now, it's important to think about horizontal relationships. 00:03:29.901 --> 00:03:33.773 So I'm noticing that the top of the ear is just below the brow line. 00:03:33.773 --> 00:03:38.319 That the earlobe is even, more or less, with the bottom of the nose. 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.118 It's pretty much the rule of thumb. 00:03:42.118 --> 00:03:44.566 I'm coming back, I'm just refining these shapes a little bit. 00:03:44.566 --> 00:03:47.735 I'm getting the planar quality of the nose more. 00:03:48.645 --> 00:03:51.999 Really important to remember that the lids wrap around the eyeballs. 00:03:51.999 --> 00:03:57.583 So you gotta make those lower lids curve around that ball of the eye. 00:03:59.190 --> 00:04:03.961 The tip of the nose is also very ball like, a little more angular, but like a ball. 00:04:03.961 --> 00:04:07.185 And the wing of the nose is also like a ball. 00:04:09.867 --> 00:04:12.474 Good idea to look at the eyes at the same time. 00:04:12.474 --> 00:04:15.436 Draw a little bit on one eye, and then look at the other one. 00:04:15.436 --> 00:04:18.322 That way you avoid that problem of getting one eye perfect, 00:04:18.322 --> 00:04:21.190 and then you realize that it's too far over to the right 00:04:21.190 --> 00:04:23.465 when you compare it to the other one. 00:04:23.465 --> 00:04:25.382 So when you work on them at the same time, 00:04:25.382 --> 00:04:27.311 it's easier to keep the proportion, 00:04:27.311 --> 00:04:29.858 it's easier to make sure the two go together well. 00:04:34.155 --> 00:04:38.380 So still trying to think big picture here. I'm refining things. 00:04:38.380 --> 00:04:41.227 I'm carving out those little forms a little bit more, 00:04:41.227 --> 00:04:48.197 but always comparing one thing to another, trying not to get too tunnel visioned 00:04:48.197 --> 00:04:51.444 in getting caught up in one little area at a time. 00:04:59.556 --> 00:05:01.545 Trying to think of this nose 00:05:01.545 --> 00:05:05.094 as a 3 dimensional cylinder, like a rounded form. 00:05:05.094 --> 00:05:07.148 So trying to draw around the form. 00:05:08.755 --> 00:05:11.117 The whites of the eyes are almost always in shadows. 00:05:11.117 --> 00:05:13.101 If you squint at Bill, here, 00:05:13.101 --> 00:05:17.816 you notice that his eyeballs are, really disappear into the shadows. 00:05:20.035 --> 00:05:21.848 I could keep going with this, 00:05:21.848 --> 00:05:24.571 but just for time's sake, I'm going to leave it at that. 00:05:24.571 --> 00:05:26.990 If I were to keep going, I would just continue 00:05:26.990 --> 00:05:31.759 to refine all of those details, but I feel like the structure is pretty good. 00:05:32.352 --> 00:05:34.065 Of course, as you go, 00:05:34.065 --> 00:05:40.136 things are always going to be adjusted and modified as you find new information. 00:05:40.136 --> 00:05:43.909 But for the most part, that structure is there. 00:05:43.909 --> 00:05:48.821 So the details will be just refining these things more and more. 00:05:50.787 --> 00:05:53.800 In a sense, that's the easy part is refining. 00:05:54.503 --> 00:05:59.037 Once you get everything in place, all those little details will just fall into place. 00:06:00.569 --> 00:06:03.354 Okay, thanks for watching and have fun with this.