Drawing Of A Head
In this exciting in depth drawing series instructor steve huston shows you a step by step construction of the human head.
Drawing of a head. The sizes are important here. The sides of the head are flat so we can slice off a piece from both sides of the ball. A sphere as the cranium.
The oval is a bit more tricky. Drawing the human head would be easier if you carefully follow your guidelines. The head deconstructed into its basic forms is a sphere as the cranium and a block as the jaw and cheek bones.
Draw a line with a curve at the end and then a line going upwards for the face. When drawing the head i ll start with a ball and draw an oval to indicate the flat side plane. Make sure the ball is a perfect circle.
The height will always be the same no matter what angle you re drawing the head from. It s of the height of the circle. The first step in drawing the head using the loomis method which is the one that is most widely used because of its effectiveness is drawing a sphere learning to draw spheres is an important step in learning to draw in dimension because it is one of the main forms used to simplify any complex object.
I use a method taught by andrew loomis in his book drawing the head hands. Afterwards lightly drawing a line horizontally in the middle and a vertical line for where you want the eyes to be would be the guideline.
