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Learn How To Draw The Head From Any Angle

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Overview

Does your character designs look a bit flat? Or do you have a difficulty in drawing the head looking up or down? Well, then maybe this class is for you. 

A little bit of background, I'm an animator and I own a motion design studio based in the Philippines and we've encountered a project where it involves lots of head turns. We finished the project and the client happy but me and the team felt like we need to upgrade our skills particularly in how to draw the head in any angle. So we tried to look for online classes, tutorials and turns out most people don't talk about this, about the different angles. There were bits of information here and there but nothing concrete, so we decided to go deep dive into this. After going through with much material, books, videos and anything we can find on the internet, we were able to piece through a working concept. We're no experts in drawing but the working concept was a game changer for us and we thought it would do the same for you. So we just had to make a class out of it. So here it is. :)

This class is meant for beginners.

We'll cover the basics in perspective. And we'll start from a basic model and build up from that. So basically this is the structure of this class

1. Make a cube

2. Create a box character from the cube

3. Create the head structure

4. Stylize

And along the way we'll talk about principles and concepts.  

Syllabus

  • Intro
  • Getting Started
  • Photoshop UI
  • Perspective: Mental Model
  • Perspective: 2d vs 3d
  • Perspective: The Horizon Line And The Vanishing Point
  • Perspective: 1,2,3 Points Perspective
  • Perspective: Anatomy of a Cube
  • Exercise: Front View of a Cube
  • Perspective: The Ellipse Method
  • Exercise: 3/4 View of The Cube
  • Perspective: Vertical Rotation
  • Exercise: 3/4 Look Up And Look Down
  • Exercise: Front View Look Up And Look Down
  • Exercise: The Other Side
  • Perspective: Other Perspective Rules You Should Know
  • Exercise: Box Character
  • Exercise: Nose Block
  • Exercise: Bottom Part
  • Exercise: Adjusted Bottom Part
  • Drawing: Head Structure
  • Drawing: Eye Planes And Ears
  • Exercise: Head Structure Front and 3/4 view
  • Drawing: How Foreshortening Affects Our Forms
  • Exercise: Head Structure 3/4 look up and down
  • Exercise: Head Structure Front View Look Up And Down
  • Drawing: Nose Structure
  • Exercise: Add Nose Structure
  • Drawing: Eye Structure
  • Exercise: Add Eye Structure
  • Drawing: Mouth Structure
  • Exercise: Add Mouth Structure
  • Exercise: Profile View
  • Drawing: Lighting
  • Exercise: Add Shading
  • Class Project
  • Stylize: Head Structure
  • Stylize: Eye And Brow Design
  • Stylize: Nose Design
  • Stylize: Mouth Design
  • Stylize: Ear Design
  • Stylize: Drawing The Hair
  • Stylize: Clean Up And Shading
  • Trying A Different Style
  • Export And Upload To Skillshare
  • What's Next?

Taught by

Marvin Te

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