How to Draw the Head from Extreme Angles

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In this episode , we go extreme extreme angles are usually challenging for people and frequently ignored by artists .

But studying the extreme angles will make you better at the more common angles because you'll have a better understanding of the method to help us visualize the extreme angles .

We have a special guest .

This is looming .

Let's start by talking about the twist or rotation along the z axis .

This has a few important effects on the head .

First , the center line and brow line will be at an angle .

Second , the side plane will go down to reveal more of the top of the head or up to reveal more of the bottom .

The ellipse that indicates the side plane will be angled perpendicular to the brow line .

This is caused by the ellipse being in perspective to get the proper angles on the front and side planes .

Remember that the head can be simplified into a box to visualize the perspective .

You can see the same angles throughout the face as on the box .

So this is what we have so far , the hard part is over .

If you do that part , right , adding the jaw should be fairly straightforward .

Just observe the major plane changes .

The third effect a twist has is on the gesture of the neck .

Look for the curve , try to avoid lollipop necks .

The concept of stretch and pinch applies here too .

Now , let's take a look at extreme up and down tilts along the x axis .

I always look for the degree of the tilt by observing the angle from ear to brow , find the angle of the brows .

And then the thirds remember what we learned in part two of the series about foreshortening , the thirds will get smaller as they receive from us .

So in an up tilt , the bottom third will be about the same as half of the side plane and the forehead will be fairly small and the opposite in a down tilt , a confusing area for most people is the shape of the jaw .

As the head rotates up and down .

During this rotation , the relationship of the corners of the jaw and the bottom of the chin will change .

As a person looks up , the chin will come up and at one point be in line with the jaw , creating a boxy shape .

If you keep going the shape actually inverts and you get the opposite triangle in an up tilt , you're also seeing the bottom plane of the jaw which wraps around the cylindrical neck .

This connection of the jaw to the neck is important .

So try not to overlook it .

As a person looks down , the jaw shape becomes more triangular because the corners of the jaw and the bottom of the chin move away from each other .

Another common area of frustration is the tip of the nose in an extreme uptil the tip will be unusually close to the eyes .

It's so unusual that most of us feel like we need to move it down to lengthen nose , observe the shape of the bottom plane of the nose and compare it to the length of the entire middle third from brow to bottom of the nose .

It's important to remember that the eyes and lips are not flat on the face .

They are rounded in their simplest forms .

So observe the curvature of these features as they wrap around the eyeball and the tooth cylinder .

So what would happen if instead of the head rotating up or down , we move the camera above or below the head .

When this happens , the side plane rises or drop to reveal more of the top of the head or the bottom of the head .

But this time without changing the angle of the center line , since there is no twist from this angle , the neck will be mostly covered by the head and we just see shoulder .

That's it .

For this episode .

Next week , we'll be covering the eyes .

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