Figure Drawing: The Human Head

Overview

“In this part I am going to continue drawing the portrait using an exaggerated expression to understand how the muscles affect gestures. I will also add the hair and I am going to share with you a trick to blur, soften the graphite and understand the way in which light and tones work.”

In this video lesson ZURSOIF Miguel Bustos Gómez addresses the topic: Application and composition with heads. Part 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Figure Drawing: The Human Head. Learn how to draw the skull, muscles, facial elements, and expressions without using a model.

Partial transcription of the video

“Application and composition with heads And, because we've already got this lip, it casts a shadow on this part of the chin and, added to this shadow... we're pulling down this whole corner with this muscle. When it's like this, it looks a little exaggerated, so we'll soften it a little by raising the tone slightly. We're going to move from shade to a much softer light. We can gather this up even more and add a crease here. Something else that we'll see is how the teeth, here... We tend to say that teeth are white, but if we take a photo in gray scale, they're a tone of gray. A very light to...”

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Course summary for: Figure Drawing: The Human Head

• Level: Beginner
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• 5 units
• 29 lessons (5h 41m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing