Figure Drawing Lesson 009 - The Formulas for the Side View of the Human Head - Phase 1

Hey guys, my name is Riven Phoenix and welcome to the structure of man, learn to draw the

human figure from your mind training course.

Okay, so in the previous lesson, we looked at a very simple formula method to be able to

on the fly create a very realistic structure of the human skull, right?

So these are like the seeker formulas that we've created that only we know.

And here I proved to you that when I did my initial toolkit, when I did my initial sketch

ideas, I can come back in and use those formulas to create very realistic skull, right?

So obviously in as we move through this course, you'll see that we don't even have to

do it this way, right?

Because we will simplify the formulas so much that it will just become a no brainer.

But you can see that we're already seeing that we would have to adjust the understanding

of the toolkit, right?

So through this process, you can see that we're we're getting to know the understanding,

the structure of the figure in much more detail is like the secret understandings that only

we know and that what's going to make the difference between the artists who is doesn't

have the information to draw the figure and the artists that does, right?

So if someone asks you how are you drawing these figures so realistically, you can go

ahead and explain to them the journey, the story of your figure drawing, which is the

structure of men.

So what we want to do now is take a look at these formulas again and also look at the

inside of this, right?

So here you'll see that once we do the formulas one more time, it's just going to be like

a sentence.

It's like you're speaking sentences, right?

So just start out what we said was, okay, the formula, the secret understanding of the

design of the skull really is that we could just pull the line down, really doesn't matter

how long it is.

Once we have the line, we find the center of this, right?

Just be our proximate with it and then draw a horizontal line making sure that it's

like a 90 degrees, right?

And we don't want to use a ruler here, just simply sketch it out like this.

Once we have this, we just want to look at the height of the half of this, translate

it over here, make sure that it's correct, just like this and we can just increase it just

a little bit by its width and that's it, there's really no much to it.

Once we have this, now we can draw out a very simple box around it, again, just get

it out, right?

And be accurate as possible if you're seeing that your lines are not, if your box is like

a little odd chip, you obviously have to correct it, but if it's slightly off, if it's

like slightly off, don't worry about it, right?

Because it's really the, that's what's going to, the figure is very organic, right?

Our invention of the figure is going to be organic anyways, but this is fairly, very

approximate, very accurate.

So once we did this, right, the first, the sentence of the formula for the skull was basically

we were going to find the jaw line when it's facing this way, it's going to be the

same thing facing that way, right?

So we're going to do it this way.

So here I start from the center, bottom, divide, divide up, I get the point where the

jaw should be from here to here, I find the center of this line here, divide again, I

get the center of this divide again, and basically I know that this is where the, the line

for the jaw should be, and I just start curving, and I end up over here.

And this gives me that very subtle angle for the, the skull, right?

So here I'm just going to be sketchy about this, right?

So just do like this, like you're sketching out the skull.

So the back of the skull was from when you know the center, from here to here, you know

the center, you go down, dividing, and then you go up, and basically you get the back

of the skull.

And you basically, that eyeball that you want to come kind of like close to the center where

you'll start to turn up, and to turn up, it was very easy.

From here to here, we find the center over here, from here to here, we find the center

over here.

Right?

So basically we need to divide from, if we pull this line here, we look at this, we find

the center, and then divide, and that's basically it.

We just come down like this, and we can just sketch out at the skull over here, like notice

that I'm just sketching it out, like these rough lines, the design of the skull.

The next thing was, we know that there's a flat area over here, and we need to understand

the curve is very easy, from here to here, we find the center, from here to here, we find

the center, and then here, we're going to find that center point from here, and that's

basically it.

We just come back in this direction, come this way, then we need to come over here.

We know from here, where we were in the center, from center, from here to here, if you divide

this in half, we know that it's going to be this angle, then it's going to flat line

on top, over here, it's going to be the same thing from here to here.

We divide this in half, divide this, we know that it's going to be all flat over here,

then it's going to start to curve.

The curve was very simple, as long as we know the center of this box, so here I'm just

going to say that this is the center, from here, so basically from here to here is the

center, right?

It's like a horizontal line, I just need to find the center over here, and I can curve

it, but I know that there's, because of the way the temple is, we can't just curve it,

we can just assume from now, so from here to here, I know that this is going to be here,

then I know if I divide it up, this is where it should touch, right?

So it just should be an obvious statement, that when you're curving it, you should know

that, right?

The temple is just going to be like this, meaning that you really don't have to measure this

part, you just know that, for now on you'll know that it's just going to be here, right?

So once this starts going in this direction, we know that it's going to collide with this

angle, from here, this is the box, right?

This is the box, from here to here, if there was a line here, this is the collision course

it would hit, and this collision course, it goes, it's like a line that's going, going

this way, then it starts going this way, then from here, this corner here, we know that

it's, this is the point that needs to start turning, and the angle that it hits, it can't

come here, it needs to come somewhere here, and that was very simple, from here to here,

I divide this, divide this, that's basically it, I just come like this, over here, and

then here, I can finish off, let's go, right?

So this area here, it's really the bone of the nose here, and then your nose will come

in this way with the cartilage, right?

But notice that how easy that formula was.

So all we have to do now is figure out the inner workings of this, which is very simple.

So where this point is, right, and we understand that there's a box here, basically if you

divide this in half, you just know that from here, see how this is a little above and this

is a little bottom, you just need to come like this, like a curve, don't even touch this

point, just know that it's going to curve, and where this line is, you're going to curve

like this, and there, and just do it this way.

So this gives you like the eye socket for your skull, right?

It's a very simplified design over here, and that's it.

Now for the cheek bone, where we were at the jaw, all we have to do is from here, we have

to somehow create a line that defines the cheek bone.

So meaning that where this eye socket is, there's actually a bone here that separates it.

So you can just determine like a width, just come up with a width, come like this, and

go in this direction, like this, and then just do this over here, right?

And this gives you the top of your cheek, and the bottom of the cheek is very simple.

Since we know the center of this box is right here, and we know the center of this line

is here, if we divide this in half, and that's it, right, we can just simply go like this,

and then we can just make a curvature going in this direction.

And this curvature is basically where this center is, it's just coming to the middle

like this.

So usually I just do this, and this gives me enough information to do the skull.

Okay, so once we have this defined, we now need to understand how it's the jaw supposed

to be, it's very simple, where the center, where this is, and this is, it's just this

line.

From this point here, we're just going to curve it slightly, and this will now give you

the jaw definition of the jaw, this is very easy, right?

And now here, where this is, we know that there's supposed to be a line over here, obviously,

right?

That goes in this direction.

To figure that out, we just said, okay, from here to here, when we find the center,

we go up, then we can go up just a little more, and this will give us the line here, and

then the center of this is really where it comes, the center of this box, it's where

it's going to come, and it's just going to be like this, and this is like these features

of the human skull.

Okay, so the only thing left is really the mouth and the nose.

Now we know that obviously in the, our invention that we're creating of the skull, that there's

going to be a cut for the nose, but we don't have to worry about that at this moment,

it's because we will look at that when we look at the front.

But what I want you to know is that when, when you have this line here, basically you

can just pull a very simple nose out in this direction, and where you are over here,

this is the center of this, right?

So if you divide this, this line here in half and go up, and basically this gives you

the, the line for where the nose should be.

So what I did was from here to here, I divided this divided in up, and from here I pulled

the line touching this line, so this gives me the angle to where the nose is supposed

to be.

Right, so this sets us up to where the mouth is supposed to be, the mouth is going to

be where we had divided this in half, this is the beginning for the mouth, and from here

to here, if I divide this in half and divide up, this is the line for where the mouth is

supposed to be on the skull, right?

This is so simple that it's just amazing that what Devinji is saying in his, through

his studies, right, he's stating this through his studies, that once you start looking at

the figures and coming up with their own formulas, that your understanding of the figure

is just going to skyrocket, right, just as it is over here.

So now I'm just going to show you something extra over here that you should be aware of.

This is the formula that we've been looking at for that skull, right?

We've simplified it enough so we understand it's just a very simple sentence, and you

should be looking at this video over and over so you understand how simple it is.

The idea is not to memorize these, you don't really have to memorize this because we will

simplify this, but you can see that it's so simple that you're just going to remember

the many things.

So the thing I want to show you is that when you're here on the center, right, here we

have the center of this, we divided this in half, this, if you divide this in half, I

just want you to put a line over here, do the same thing here, from here to here I'm

going to divide in half, then I'm going to divide here, put a line over here.

So basically I want to connect from this line to this line, I want to do a connection

over here.

So for this, I'm just going to use a piece of paper because this line is kind of long

here.

So from here to here, I'm just going to pull a line over here, I just want to show you

something, okay, so this line here, the we're pulling, it's really going to be the axis

of the human skull, right, so meaning that if you look at this, when a person is looking

at you, right, they're not going to be looking at you really in this direction here because

the nose is to what, they actually are going to be looking at you like this into a straight

line, in that if I make this line straight on the camera, you can see this is really how

the human skull is when it looks straight at a person.

So what this means is that if you now, from here, use this line here and make this like

or I'm just showing you as an extra thing here, I'm going to make this a 90 degrees angle,

right, so I'm taking this line over here, I'm just showing you something, I'm going to

make this a 90 degree angle over here and then where this chin is, I'm going to make

also, we do it this way, right, so this is the 90 degree angle over here like this.

So you'll notice that if we take this, right, and divide this in half is going to be

about here, this gives you the center of the human head just like this, right, so this

is why when you're learning about portrait drawings and you read documentation on drawing

the head, you'll notice that it's always stated that the head from the eye to the bottom

of the chin is exactly the same height as the top and this is why, because the skull

is sitting on this angle, right, this is a fascinating information to understand how

this why this was, right, so you can understand where this information is really coming from.

If you had to talk about this and tell somebody about it, you can explain to them, this is

what's really causing it, this is why it's always divided, the eyes always in the middle,

this is why the nose is just, it's not all horizontal, it's just on a slight angle above

and it's facing that way, okay, so I just want you to keep this in the back of your mind

on this concept over here.

So I'll see you in the next lesson, thanks.