Figure Drawing Lesson 013 - The Journey to 3/4 view of Human Skull - Part 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 had looked at the formulas for the front view and they

were very simple and you should have mastered the front by now because it was very simple

to understand.

So, so far in our journey of understanding the invention of the human sculpt that we

are creating, creating all the rules for ourselves, we understand how it looks from the side

and we also understand how it looks from the front.

So what we're going to do now is something very fascinating in artistic thinking and

that is how to get the mind to understand your ideas into a 3D form, right, so to be able

to draw the human head, just free hand, we need to come up with a very simple formula

mechanism that will allow us to always draw out the human skull in any pose that we want

without using very complicated formulas, right, so here the formulas that I've shown you

are very simple anyways, right, but we're going to turn this into a 3D object so we can

draw it in any angle.

So to do that, we're going to use the power of these formulas and begin to see how we

can, how to get the mind to go through this process of simplifying its concepts and going

through the investigation process where it will start to discover conceptual concepts,

the only we would know, right, these secret understandings.

So to do this, what we need to do is put the side view in the front view side by side

and look at all the stuff that we've been doing as to how everything compares to other

and from within it, we will discover a very fascinating aspect of drawing out the human

head.

So to do this, what we want to do is draw the side view of the human head, so here I'm

just going to go down this way here in this direction and just draw it out like this.

So in this exercise, I want you to be as accurate as possible because this is going to be

a big deal here to be as accurate as possible, right, and if we find that you're a little

off, it's okay as long as you understand the concept.

So here I'm just going to draw the side view, I'm going to make sure that this is a nice

plus sign over here, just like this over here, right, and just do everything freehand

over here.

Okay, once I have this, I'm going to make sure, first of all, to measure this, and make

sure that I got this right and then translate that over here to here and translate that

over here to here.

So basically I can stretch it a little bit to the left like this and do the same thing,

stretch it a little bit to the right.

Okay, okay, so here we've got the secret formula that we've been working with.

So here for this formula, what we want to do is we need to actually create the grid again.

This is going to be an important step.

Also you'll see why that is in a little bit, right, we said that we don't have to really

do this, but in this step we kind of do, we have to bring that out or grid back so we

can make sure that we're doing everything accurately as possible, because this is really

just like a discovery process phase that we're going through.

Okay, and then this over here and be just like this, right, so this gives me like the

grid that I want to work with over here.

Okay, so to draw out the skull from the side, it was very easy.

From here to here, I divide this in half, go up, I get the line for the jaw, from here

to here.

I should really just divide this in half, divide, divide, I get the line here to define the

jaw at the angle, and I'm just going to come down over here like this, right, very simple.

Once I already had this in the middle point, I'm going to divide down, divide up, I'm going

to get the bottom of the skull over here.

I'm going to halfway, then I just need to find the center of this, I need to find the

center of this, make a line over here, and then maybe basically divide this and then

divide this.

I get the point where I'm supposed to start to curve and I'm going to get that skull.

Over here, again, it was very simple concept over here, I'm going to divide this from here

to here in half, just eyeball it, and over here, I'm going to get that line again for

the skull, and I know from here to here, it's going to just come here and it's going to

flat by over here, from here to here, if I divide this in half here, it's going to flat

line all the way from here and it's going to start to curve.

Then just find the center of this box here really over here, if I go here and up, I know

that I'm going to be supposed to touch this line and start to curve down from here to

here, I'm going to just start to curve down in this way and keep going until I get from

here to here, I get that junction over here, it's going to hit, and where this is from

here to here, I'm going to get that turn, and that turn has to come over here somewhere,

right, so it's from here to here, if you divide this and have, divide this, you're going

to get it over here, and that's basically it, that gives us the skull, and we know from

the eye socket, it's very simple, as long as you know the middle of this, you just need

to curve it from here like this, and just come like this, this is where the eye socket

is going to be, once we have this, we can just define the bones structure like this,

from here we're going to connect it over here, so this is the middle of this coordinate

over here, when I divide up, I know that the cheek is really going to be going like this

over here, and we said that we can just curve it up like this, okay, and over here we

know that the line for the nose is kind of like this over here, so if we divide this

in half and go up, we know that the line from here to here is supposed to join, we'll

just know that that's basically where the nose is supposed to be, and then where this

middle is, we know that this is where the mouth is supposed to be, and from here to here,

if I go up, I'll get the line for the mouth, and where this line is, I can just get the

jaw over here, right, and from this section here, I'm just going to go up, so meaning

that, I mean I already know it's going to be here, here, here, so I can just eyeball it,

so here I'm just going to go like this, make it look like a nice curve, and this is

the middle of this coordinate, I'm just going to switch around, come here, the last thing

is the ear, just go here, from here to here, we had divided this in half and go here,

you can just come this way, as long as this circle comes close to this, what the point

is of this, and we just make the placement for the ear, right, so now we need to find the

axis, which is here, here, here, I'm going to get this axis here, from here, I'm going

to divide this in half, over here, I get the axis, so now I'm going to draw out the

axis, over here, just like this, and for this I'm going to use a paper, right, because

it's easy to draw hairs down through vertical lines, or freehand, when you're drawing

like this, it's better to just use like a ruler, right, so this is my axis, over here,

and so we now we know that we have to turn this page like this, so we're looking at it

on the axis, and this is how the human skull actually has to fix, so to fix this, what

we have to do is now, I'm just going to take this paper, see where this top is over

here, we're going to make a right angle, I'm going to line up this edge of the paper

against this axis over here, make sure I got it right, on that point, make sure I do

this right, and I'm just going to pull a line all the way like this, I'm going to do

the same thing on this end over here, see the bottom of the chin, it's going to be an

axis over here, so this thing, just going to be, make sure it's lined up correctly, bring

it all down, and just make a line over here, pull it all the way, just like this, right,

so this is where the lines are going to be following, so now we know that all we have

to do is really divide this line in half, right, so it's going to be half of this, so

basically all this is that, from here to here, I'm just going to make sure that this is

in the, pretty much in the center, and just pull a line like this, right, okay, so you

can just check this if you did this right, if you didn't, you might need to adjust this,

so here I'm just going to pull this just a little bit down, so I'm on an angle here,

right, so I'm going to pull this line just a little down over here, so it becomes in the

middle, here, in here, perfect, right, in here we can just get rid of this line, over here,

okay, so once we've done this, right, what this is is, this is the line for where the

I line is going to be over here, okay, so now what we're going to do is take these formulas,

the front formulas and put them on this line and just compare the features and see what's

really going on here, okay, so if I, let me make sure it's straight over here, so if I

now take a line down, actually I'm going to pull that line from here, I want to make sure

that this is correct, okay, so I pull this line down, this is the height for my head from

the front here, okay, so our rule was that when we divide this in half and divide down,

we're going to get the area for the brow area over here, right, and then from here, if we

look at this whole line, we can just mark the center of this and say this line here, we've marked

the center, we know that this is going to be the bottom of the nose, okay, so if we look at this,

I'm going to have to stretch these lines out to make sure it all makes sense to you here, so if I

stretch, now again, it's all about approximation here, right, you don't have to be perfect as long

as you understand the concept, so if I stretch a line from the bottom of the nose over here, you'll

see that because we have to tilt this, that this is now making perfect sense, right, so here was the

design for the opening of the nose over here, just like this, okay, so we've got the brow over here,

so if I stretch a line for the brow, I can see okay, where does it exactly hit on this idea over

here, right, so if I look at this and now stretch this line here hitting the brow area over here,

I want to look at this and see what happens, so now you see that there's a curve over here, so you

will know in your mind that when you're drawing this in through you that there's a curve over here,

right, so our concept was that all you have to do is divide this in half over here, so if we now

stretch this line from here to here, you'll see that the reasoning behind this was because it's just

going to end up being this junction over here, this bone structure for the nose area, this is like

this bone coming down over here, like so, okay, so once and then we just did this, right, so in the

original idea that we did, we just filled in this nose just like this, right, so we can see here

that over here the bone actually comes down a little more here, so for the future what we'll do

is we'll just stretch it like this, right, we'll make it a little more smaller for the skull, this

will give us much more room for the bone for the nose, right, and this is where we're just

adjusting this formula because we're going through a discovery process as to how this is looking,

remember this is the concept of the microverse that I'm showing you that as you go through the

process, you're just going to take small amounts of information and start to put them down and experiment

with them, okay, so now once we have this, what we want to do is we said that all we have to do is

just divide this in three different sections, right, so I'm going to divide this, this, take a look

this, this is exactly matching up with a mouth just like I had stated to, right, so here if I take

this line from here to here, it's just going to be like this, the top of the mouth, right, and we

know that this is going to be the bottom of the teeth, right, so the bottom of the lip is going to be

here, the top of the lip, this will give us enough room for the area for the chin area over here,

okay, so now that we've done this, we know that this bottom here is really just basically the height

for, I'm sorry, the width of this head here, so this is my center, it's not this one, it's this,

so here I'm just going to look at this and go over here and really just mark this down like this,

and mark this down like this, right, so this will, now you can come in a little bit if you want to,

right, sometimes I like to come in a little bit so I can give the skull a little more elongated view,

it doesn't really matter, right, you're just nudging it by a little bit, no big deal, right, because

the formulas really don't change, it's a part of the formulas, we can do different types of

very realistic designs of the human skull, different variations of it, right, so you can do it

this way if you want to, I'm just punching it in a little bit because I like to keep my designs,

a little more squished in, okay, so once we figure this out, we know that all we have to do is just

divide this in half over here and make like a square, like as long as we have like a square over here,

over here and do the same thing over here, just like this, right, so it's better to just,

since this is a bigger drawing, it's better to just measure, so once I've gotten this, I'm going

to take this whole width over here and translate it over here, just like this, then translate it

over here, just like this, right, so I'm going to make that box area over here for the eye socket,

and over here I'm going to get that box, just like this, I'm going to basically translate it

down here also, knowing that really from here to here it was really just halfway, right, if the

nose was here, just like this, very easy concept, right, so now if you compare this with the side view

of our original design over here, you'll notice that you look at the eye socket over here,

that we've got the cheek coming pretty much close to this, so let's take a look at what's going

to happen here, so if I go like this, right, from this line to this line, over here, and already

said, where this division was, if I go up above, I'm going to make this, like this shape over here,

right, and then this guy here, where this is, you find, just divide in half over here, and then

come back in this way over here, like this, I'm going to pretty much get what I've been looking for,

like this over here, right, it's going to give me that organic look, right, so if you compare this

from here, you can see that it's really the same thing over here, as long as we got the eye socket

a little down over here, right, there's really no difference into how this is being done, it's just

approximated idea here, right, this is like this, and we could have just pulled it down a little more,

so in this sense, now we know that we just need to figure out the top of this, which is very easy,

since I'm just going to look at this, compare this over here, right, I'm going to get this line

over here, like this, and this line over here, like this, right, now I'm just being artistic about it,

from where this is, just going down, like this over here, and just looking at what we've been doing,

so if you take from here, I'm sure this is correct here, it's about here, right, so if you take this from

here, as long as you find this here, from this point here, the center of this,

about here, divide this in half, I know that it's just going to be coming like this,

and it's going to go like that, in this direction here, right, and it's the same thing over here,

as long as I have it like this, divide this in half like this in here,

basically going to get the same concept over here also, right, so just look at it, and just get it out like this,

and here you'll see that this thing here is really just going to go about its own direction over

here in the 3D4, right, so now we come to the area for the cheekbones, you'll notice that the cheek

is over here, if you compare it, it's about here, right, so meaning that over here, we really should

be coming down like this, right, because in reality it's going to be like this, so we can adjust that

formula also, right, so we've made two adjustments in our understanding of the, the skull, that we want to

give this area here, right, before I told you to do this, the reason for this is because we didn't

have this information, now we do, just like I showed you before, when you discover something, you add it,

so we know that over here, right, it's just going to, from here, it's just really just turning this way

over here, this way, and it's just going to be like this, and over here's the same thing, where this is,

the original ideas for the formula is just going to be like this, right, this gives us a good idea

for the skull, and here I'm just going to be sketchy about this, okay, okay, so all we have to do now is

where we're at the bottom of this, we just need to take a look at this and figure out the jaw line,

from here to here, and then divide back, we know that this over here, a little bit in,

it's going to be just the jaw over here, and then over here, to divide like this and come back in,

pretty much going to get the same thing over here, and where the bottom of this is, we can just start

turning in here, and we know that this from here is going to just end up here, right, from here to here,

and that's just it, and that gives us the design for the skull, just like this, and everything else

where this is, we can just take the jaw from here and take it like this, we know that this is where

the, see where this is, this is where the mouth is basically going to be, right, so here you can give

like a three-dimensional view, okay, so now that we've done this, compared it, and we looked at,

we adjusted this area here, and here we stated that when we do this, we'll just see this where I did this

line over here, that's what I did over here, right, we can adjust this and make it a little more

bigger over here, coming close to the area for the nose, right, so the important thing about this

area here is just going this way, just like that, that's very simple, so what we'll do in the next

lesson is now we will start to investigate using this, we're not, we're just going to look at this

again in the next lesson, and we'll be from it, we'll come up with a very simple formula

of drawing out the human skull, so I'll see you in the next lesson, thanks.