How to Draw a Face from any Angle _ Part 2 - The 3_4 View

Hey , I'm Darlene .

And you're watching a rapid fire art tutorial .

You're watching part two of two .

If you haven't watched part one yet , where I cover the front and side view of the human head , please find the video link in the card and in the description in this video , I'm covering the last two poses .

So it might be confusing if you watch this one .

First .

These are the tools I'm gonna use a colored pencil for drawing construction lines and a graphic pencil for the finalized drawings .

If you want to create your own reference material , you'll need a styrofoam ball and marker to draw lines on it .

You'll need a toothpick and finally a need eraser .

We're gonna make some models with these to help us draw certain facial features .

If you don't have a Nable eraser , you can use playdough , see recipe below .

Another handy reference would be a rottable human skull .

All of these tools will be linked up in the description .

Now let's continue where we left off .

Let's draw ahead in the three quarter view .

Now start with a circle .

Once again , this one's gonna be a little tricky , but it's also the most fun and most rewarding one to draw .

Well , for me personally , before I continue , I want to introduce something very important .

It's called the axis picture , an imaginary pole running through the center of the ball .

The head revolves on this axis , just like how this styrofoam ball revolves about the toothpick .

The axis will really come in handy throughout the construction process going forward and you'll see why as we continue on When I rotate the ball to the left , you'll see that the middle line actually becomes more and more curved to accurately draw that curve .

Let's draw a full oval or ellipse that's well balanced along the axis .

I'm using the same technique for drawing circles just hovering until my pencil movement looks and feels right , then lowering my pencil to create a faint oval , it's barely visible .

So let me make it a little darker .

The line on the other side of the ball is represented using a dotted line .

You can see that the oval is well balanced along the axis .

Draw the brow line perpendicular to the axis .

Constructing a sphere properly is one of the most difficult things about this method .

This one is one of the easiest ones to construct .

If we keep the brow line straight , the sphere can be easily rotated left to right by changing the width of the ellipse .

Keep the middle line straight and play with the brow line to get the head looking up or down the wider your lips .

The more extreme the rotation using this simple method , we can rotate the head from this front facing position to any one of these directions left , right up or down to draw heads in any other position .

We're going to use a different method which I'll cover in the very last example .

Those ones are a little tricky to draw .

OK .

Let's get back to our three quarter head split the top and bottom half of the ball into thirds .

So we can draw the side plane .

The top third will mark the top of our side plane and the bottom third marks the bottom for a head in the three quarter view , the side plane will look like an oval .

The more the head is turned to the side , the wider , more circular the side plane will appear it kind of spans across half of the sphere , draw a vertical Earline , make sure it's parallel to the axis and that each quadrant is fairly equal in size .

We already have our brow line .

Let's draw the hairline which is parallel to the brow line , align it with the top of your side plane , draw out the nose line also parallel to the brow and align it with the bottom of your side .

Pla make sure the spacing is equal between each section .

Don't forget to extend your middle line down to form the front of his face .

Let's make it parallel to the axis , make sure the spacing between the hair , brow and nose are equal and then draw your chin line by measuring the space between the brow and nose .

Bring it down here to get his chin .

Let's draw the far side of his face by connecting the sphere to chin .

The jawline is barely visible from this angle , this side of his jawline by extending the Earline down and angled towards the chin .

This next step is optional , but it helps a lot with sectioning .

So when you start drawing the features , it's less intimidating .

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Let's draw his ear between the brow and nose , placing it in this quadrant .

Also , it's slanted back like so the steps are similar to the previous heads we drew .

So I'm not going to narrate this part .

Now , for the rest of his features to make this process easier , you can draw or imagine the skull and planes of the face .

If you can't visualize that quite yet , practice drawing them until they come more naturally to you .

It's important to not just think about what you're seeing from your viewpoint , but also consider the sides that you can't see .

Can you visualize the shape of his eyebrows and where exactly you would draw them ?

Let's go ahead and draw those in .

It is pretty difficult to just draw the nose at this angle without any guidelines .

So working out a simple blocky 3d nose really helps try your best to balance it on the middle line to draw the base of his nose , start in the center where the middle line and nose line intersect and draw towards the tip , then draw the side of his nose wrapping around your planar guidelines and then draw the nostril in between from this angle .

The far side of his nose is still visible but much less .

So if you want to study the nose from different angles , you don't need any fancy tools , just grab a needle eraser or some play dough , create a triangular nose shape and add two round pieces on the side .

For each nostril , it's quite sloppy .

But you get the idea , draw the side of his face while visualizing the shape of his skull .

Where are the cheekbones ?

Where do they end ?

The cheekbone , kind of ends where the nose line is ?

So I'm gonna to curb my stroke inward around there , I'm gonna stop here for now because I'd like to draw this part after the mouth has been drawn to draw his eyes , create a line from the nose wing going up .

This marks the inner corner of his eye .

If you want to learn how to draw the eye from different angles , it helps to have a reference .

I'll show you how to make one in a moment .

It's very easy .

If you have a ball and a piece of play dough , you can make a pretty good model of an eye .

I'm flattening my needle eraser and then I'm just gonna cut it in half , wrap each piece around the ball to create an eye .

Now , you can find out what eyes look like from any angle just by rotating the ball .

You can use this model to draw a page full of eyes in all sorts of directions .

So you can memorize it for later .

Instead of needing to rely on a physical reference all the time .

I'm just checking that all the features are parallel to each other for the mouth .

Let's draw it along the line we created earlier , except this time .

Instead of centering his lips on the middle line , we're going to move it a bit to the left so that his mouth doesn't look flat .

This part of the face actually comes out .

So keep that in mind as you draw , let's draw the corners of his mouth , the size is up to you .

I'm gonna align it between the nose and middle of the eye on the left .

Try not to go past the nose .

Now , let's connect the dots to form the opening of his mouth , the middle of his top lip then connect everything together .

The slope on the far side is gonna appear steeper than the right .

Then draw the bottom lip .

Let's finish drawing the side of his face , drawing a bump right here to account for the mouth's protrusion .

You can make his chin stick out more or less just roughly following my construction lines .

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So his head doesn't look like a ball .

And there we have another completed face .

Let's draw the last head facing the upper right for ankles like this where both the middle line and brow line are rotated off center .

It will be easier to draw the sphere using a different method .

It starts with a cross which marks the front of his face .

Since we want him to face the upper right , draw the cross in the upper right of your sphere .

The middle line and brow line are always perpendicular to each other .

So make sure the quadrants of your cross are fairly equal , draw your axis going through the center of the sphere while making sure it's parallel to the middle line .

Now draw your brow line as an ellipse , making sure it passes through the cross double check that your ellipse is well balanced about the center of the sphere .

Do the same thing for the middle line .

Since the head is looking up , tilt your lips in a way that will expose more of the bottom portion of his head .

The head is tilted up so much that we can actually see the point at which the axis and middle line intersect the very bottom of the ball , the southernmost point .

This is important and I'll tell you why in a moment , extend the middle line down , making it parallel to the axis , draw the side plane by creating an oval that is well balanced along the brow line , making sure each quadrant is fairly equal in size .

When the head is rotated in a more extreme position , the side plan can become increasingly difficult to draw .

So there's actually another method to find each feature line .

See this space between the brow and southernmost point of the ball , the midway point will give us the approximate location of his nose line .

Now , we can take the measurement between brow and nose to get the hairline and chin line when drawing more extreme angles .

Don't forget to apply some for shortening also make sure each feature line is parallel to the brow line .

Otherwise the face will look skewed .

We've gone through the following steps many times before .

So I'm gonna fast forward through them .

The trickiest thing about this pose is the nose and mouth .

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So to make it easier , first think about what the Planar version would look like at this angle .

When you tilt the nose up , the tip will be higher and we will see more of the bottom .

We know the nose is balanced along the middle line .

So start your stroke there and draw towards the tip .

The tip of his nose at this angle will be at a higher position .

So I've angled up after drawing that the rest will just fall into place , the far nostril should be less visible .

If the eyes are difficult to visualize from this angle .

Don't forget to reference your model that you made with me earlier .

I'm just referencing the axis .

So my lines don't angle out in all sorts of weird directions , the mouth curves around the face .

So instead of drawing a straight construction line , I've drawn one that's slightly curved down , the more you tilt the head up , the more extreme the curve at this angle .

Instead of drawing his mouth centered on the middle line , which makes the face look flat , the center should be moved forward to show that the mouth sticks out of the face .

When you're done , double check that all the features are parallel to each other .

His eyes are a little off the angle isn't quite parallel with the other features .

So let me fix that you can draw any number of poses by using this method .

For more info on the Luis method for drawing heads , check out the link below where you can find his book .

It covers a great deal more .

There are more poses and it also covers females , babies and Children .

Please keep in mind that the book mostly covers the construction of the head with less focus on the individual features .

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And thanks for watching .