Figure Drawing Lesson 012 - The Formulas for the Front View of the Human Head

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 I showed you how you can just use the basic formulas that

we've understood so far of creating the human skull and here we had created a character

design.

I've just cleaned it up a little bit showing you that as you go through your drawing phases

and processes you can create different types of character designs.

So my, like an idea that I would suggest here is that once you have this information

that I've given you so far is to try out doing different types of character designs

and also experiment with what would happen if you stretch and squash the formulas,

giving you different types of characters that you can create.

That's the power of these formulas regardless of what the idea looks like.

You can make anything look like a figure.

Okay, so what we want to do now is we want to look at the front formulas of the human

skull.

So what we've been doing is, I've been, we've been looking at it in a much more slower

process where we were investigating in just getting the mind really warmed up and used

to the ideas formulas, ideas formulas.

So what we're going to do now from now on is that when we move forward we really don't

have to spend so much time in looking and investigating at the formulas because we always

do the much more simpler, right?

And this is what will happen with the front formulas.

And really the human skull is where we're going to be spending more time on it is because

that's really the key object to get.

Everything else regarding the other parts of the human skeleton that we will create all

the other bones are going to be very simple.

There are really no brainers when you look at them as to how to understand them.

Okay, so for the front formula is going to be very simple.

So what we want to do is draw out a straight line over here and this is going to be the

height for the head.

So here I'm just going to draw it out like this over here and just say that this is the

height of the head.

And basically all I have to do is once again just divide this in half, right?

So once I've divided this in half I'm just going to make a plus sign just like I did

on the side view and making on the front view.

So once that's done we can basically now figure out all the places of the key areas of the

human skull from the front.

So basically what we want to do is when we're here, now just notice that this division

here has to be exactly the same, right?

So this is really going to be the line for your eye over here.

So from here to here just divide this in half and then come down if you divide this in

half and then from here to here divide this in half again this is going to be the area

for your brow area over here.

And if you take this from here to here divide this in half you're going to get the bone

area for your nose.

Okay, just like this.

It's a very simple concept.

So basically what happens is that throughout your drawing ability or drawing out the figure

you really just have to remember that as soon as you find out the area for the brow basically

you need to take this whole line here and divide it in half which is going to be roughly

around here.

Okay, once you do this you've already found the bottom of the nose.

Okay, so in the skull we already know that there's a hole here for the nose goes.

So here I'm just going to make like a drawing over here just like this.

And that's it.

Right, so don't make it too wide just make it kind of like this and you can adjust your

understanding of it as we move along.

There really isn't much formula needed to get this concept.

So basically when you get the bottom of the nose you need to divide from here to here in

three different sections.

Right, so if I take a look at this and if I just fiddle with it a little bit and say

that okay this is going to be how I'm going to divide this we've now figured out the construction

for the mouth and the chin area.

So what this line is this is the line for your mouth where your teeth will meet and this

line here is the bottom of your teeth right so your top of your teeth will be here and

the bottom of the teeth will be here and here will be your gums.

So this gives you enough room for the area for the chin.

So one thing that I want you to notice if you just take your index finger and put it below

the your lip area here's your bottom of your lip and put your finger over here.

So you'll notice that you can feel the bottom of your teeth meaning that the upper lip

is really sorry the bottom lip is really just going to where this line is for the mouth.

The bottom lip is really going to be always over here and this space here is going to be

the area where you're touching.

Meaning that this tells you how much space you really have and this gives you enough room

for doing the chin right so this will keep you away from doing the chin too small.

And that's really it.

Once you figure that out you can just very slightly this is the mouth area just give it

like just a small mouth over here for now.

So once we've done this what we need to do now is figure out how wide is the skull

supposed to be well it's actually very simple.

See this area here this was the mouth area and this is the bottom of the teeth the gum

area that I said so this basically is your width.

So if you take this from here and measure it and translate it over here you'll get the

the width of the human skull now you have the right to actually move this in a little

bit if you wanted to right me sometimes you want to do a skull that's a little more

elongated but this is typically the size of the human skull in this way right so here

I'm just going to specify that this is the width.

So here I'm just going to measure twice make sure that I got this right okay.

So as soon as I have this all we have to do is really now just figure out the contour

of the top and the jaw area and figure out the eye socket.

So let's work on the eye socket here and this is going to be very simple.

Basically when you have the brow area and you have this point here at the top of this

if you divide this in half right over here you basically all you need to do is make like

a cube a square in here in this area.

See this I made a square.

Once I have this I just need to repeat the same process on the other side and make sure

you're doing this as accurately as possible.

So once you have this square you've got the width of your eye right so the length of

the like the eyes are going eyes are always the three lengths apart right one eye one eye

and one eye in the middle that gives you the distance.

So from here if I measure this I'm just going to put a mark over here and a mark over

here right and then here I'm just going to make a box over here going in this direction,

box over here and going in this direction.

So I'm going to visually check here do I have the right amount of space on this end because

I want it to be as accurate as possible right so here you'll see that this box here

is where your eye socket is going to be so all you have to do is now take this box

and just translate it over here just like this right so your whole eye socket will now

be inside over here just like over here.

So here's something really important to just remember when you are drawing at the skull

and later when we get into the muscles and drawing at the human head is that notice

with the bottom of this is compared to the nose area right and this is an aspect of figure

drawing that I'm showing you that when we get into more and more of this figure where

we start putting on the surface anatomy and stuff it's going to come down to ratios also

not only formulas but ratios just knowing where everything's supposed to be.

So the bottom of the eye socket we just know that it's going to be pretty much over here.

You could say that if you take this and divide it in half it's kind of like half way but

sometimes it's okay to just do it above it doesn't really matter just know that it's

on the half way over here.

So once we have this we know that the eye sockets are going to be here so how should they

look?

Well basically where this point is and this point you're just going to make a line over

here and you're going to make a line over here.

So this is going to be the beginning of your eye socket over here and this line you'll

use it because it's going to collide here this is a bone over here and then we want to

come back in this direction over here right.

So what we want to do is from here we first want to take a look at this and just divide

this in half over here this from here I divide this in half and here I'm just going to lightly

sketch out right we don't want to draw like symmetrical lines just sketch out over here

that that's what it's going to look like and that's what it's going to look like.

So basically from here where we have this concept over here this little nudge here remember

doesn't nudge over here because this this this this so basically from here you're just

going to make it come down over here in this direction so it kind of looks like eye

glasses right and then from here you can just put it down so if you looked at this you

could say that okay I divided this in half and did over here is where I ended up but

but this area here it's really much more roundish so when I do it I'm just going to make

it kind of roundish over here give it like it's organic feel to it.

So over here if I take this and divide this in half I know that I'm just going to come

pretty much over here and then go in this direction and this will start to give me

like the the eye socket over here and that's how all we need to know right so the eyeball

was sitting inside here so we've got these two things figured out right so if you look

at the formulas that I've shown you they were very simple we just need to understand

how to divide this section once we got this it was nothing more than measuring this translating

it here and then from here to here here to here then over here just go like this and

you've got the eye socket so once you have this basically this is going to be your

bone structure over here so just like we did on the the side remember we did something

like this so this area here this line is basically over here it needs to go just a little

above this like this right so notice when I'm doing this from I'm just choosing the middle

over here from middle over here and I'm going towards this area over here just like this

right and this will become the the area for your skull which we had done on the side we'll

look at this from the side also again to compare it so basically that's it we're pretty much

done with this and what this means is when this line goes we just need to come down here

a little bit come down here a little bit and just make the cheek area over here this is going

to be a cheek area right so how low should the cheek area really go well from the front we just

need to know that where the bottom of this is is really basically needs to come down about here

so where this guy is right you can come down here you can come down a little bit over here but I

usually will put it here because based on the human skull it's usually just about here and you just

make your cheek bones like this where this area is where this point is right we come this way and

we start turning and that's it we just go inwards back towards this point like this and then from

this area here see this here like in the middle of this this is the middle over here this is the

middle and here I'm just going to go like this over here right you don't even have to measure just

just do it this way right because this is actually a conform 3d form it goes like this it's going

to go like this where the mouth is with the teeth are okay so once you figure this out we can now

work on the top area and the top area is very simple as long as you know this dot here from here

to here this square we just look at the diagonal from here to here look at the diagonal and find

the center and then just divide up you got your point over here so this point needs to go here and

this one just needs to come back around like a circle and this will give you your

this ball shape for the top of the head so over here I'll do the same thing from here I'm just

going to find this over here and then from here I'm just going to find make sure I got the center

correctly done over here and then over here right so you can just compare from the other side here

what you're doing is making sense and that's really it you just come down in this way

okay so since we've done this all we have to do is figure the bottom part out which is very simple

and that is we need to figure out okay what angle really should the jaw be in it's very simple

from here to here where this is right if I had from here divided this in half divide and then

come back so from here I divided this in half I divided to the right divided to the left this

basically is the angle from where the jaw is supposed to be so usually to get this line what you

want to do is where this thing is here where this line is see over here we came here for this

definition but from here you just need to put the jaw because this should be like this and the jaw

should come towards this line just like this so we'll do the same thing on the other side

we got this over here I divide in the middle I divide to the left and I divide to the right so I

know that this is just going to come in this direction right so just compare it that it's going to

be coming that direction okay so now we need to figure out how should the jaw turn so it comes in

this direction for that it's very simple since from here to here we knew the middle we just need

to come in the middle here and that's it we're going to get the angle from here and where this

bottom of that t is you're just going to start to curve below this and that's it you're going to

get the line for the jaw and over here it's going to be the same thing I know the center I'm going to

divide here and I'm just going to look at this from here start to curve in come in this direction

and this will give me the design for the skull okay so once that's done we just need to make

those lines for the jawbone and that's usually typically you can just make it here where this line

you when you turn where this line is just come in a little bit here and just do this curve where

it's coming towards the center over here just like this right so here I'm just going to compare

a little bit and do it this way and that's really it here we were able to create the

front view of the skull so in the next lesson what we will do is so you should just practice this

lesson again just make sure you understand how we did it it was very simple right it was taking

this line understanding how these lines were placed after we had done this we do out this square

understood the eye socket placement drew out the eye socket and then from here we basically put

these lines down going above and then from here where we got these two points we just did the

circle right and for the chin we knew that over here came down here and you can just we artistic

about it do it this way and get the line for the jaw as I showed you right over here and that's it

so I'll see you in the next lesson thanks