Transcripts
1. Introduction: Hello everyone. In this class, I'm going to be teaching you how to draw and male face with the luminous method. And I'm also going to share out through a female faces in the Lehman's method. This is just a very simple technique in order to draw the basic proportions of a head and a face. And I'm also gonna show you how to draw hands and fingers just because it's something I haven't covered yet. And it's just a very, very simple outline as well. This is that simple that anyone, even a beginner can use this. And if you just use this in your drawings, you will definitely be able to improve significantly in your work. So I hope that you enjoyed the class and that you can apply into your projects in the future.
2. Male Face Proportions: So I'm going to show you how to draw a portrait outline using the Lamaze method. And we're not going to look at any kind of features today, just the outline of the face, the head, and the neck area. And what we're gonna do is draw a smaller circle with a larger circle around there. And this small circle should be off to the side to indicate the side plane of the face. This line I've just drawn indicates where the eyebrows would be. And this is going to be in about a third of the whole of the phase, including the chain which I'll get to you afterwards. But this line is a good indication just to start with. This next line is where the bottom of the nose will be. And this is just at the bottom of that smaller circle. And this is also about a third of the way down. So now we're finishing the final third of the whole of the face. And that is why the Chileans, then we're just going to connect from the forehead down to the chin, which indicates where the front plane of the face is going to be. And then down from the back of the head or the area down to the chain which shows where the jaw is. And I'm just labeling this four-year. So if you want to maybe take a screenshot or something for later use. But this is just a really good simple outline to follow. And this little line I just drew down the front of that smaller circle down to the chin. That's just a way to show where the front part of the face. So where are the main features will go into the eyes, the nose, the lips, and they shouldn't go past that just because that is where the side of the face is going to be on that right-hand side. And you don't want your lips to be going down there or anything. And then we have that line going down the middle which just shows where, you know, you're gonna do your facial features. So when you're doing the eyes and the nose, you'll work off that middle line. And I've just added a neck into this as well, just to give you a rough idea, then neck usually joins from the back of the head as well. So you wanna make sure that you are bringing that has a smooth curve downwards. Here I'm just showing you a different perspective. So a tilted head, this head is tilted downwards. So the references looking down and using the same shapes, but you're just doing them in different angles. So when you're drawing the circle, for example, the sides are cohere. It's the same, but it's just in a different angle than the one that we drew in the beginning. And the lines will wrap around the circle because then it shows it's a 3D shape. And it also just allows you to get positioning better when you're looking at a drawing face on it. A little bit more difficult to see the shape. Otherwise, you would be able to draw it just by looking at it. So you want to make sure you're drawing these lines wrapping around the head and just making sure to stick with the direction of the face is looking. So in that case, I start with the eyebrow line just so I can see roughly that the head is around the shape. This is just easier to draw when you are doing the tilted head or headed in different position first, because if you are drawing anything else, you might not know where to go with that. And then you want to draw that line going down the middle. And that is going to be the indication of where the face is going. So the way I've drawn it now just shows the face is kind of going pointing downwards. And then another thing to remember is that the distance between the nose and the lips. In general, yes, it's usually a third, but if the face is tilted, for example, downwards, the distance between the nose and the lips will be smaller. Because the head is looking downwards, you see less. And therefore, you want to make sure you are remembering those proportions when drawing a head in a different perspective. So I've just drawn these two out for you guys. You can have a look at these and other time as well. It's just a very, very good way to learn the proportions of the face and the head as a whole. And that's how you draw a male face.
3. Female Face Proportions: Here we're doing a female reference and I'm doing more of a complete side profile. So the first I did for the male was a more of a three-quarter profile. This is actually luck aside profile. So I'm just gonna show you guys how to do that. So here we have a circle with a small circle again, obviously we are doing the same lines, just moving it around into whatever direction the person is facing site, making sure to add that line and thus the indication whether the eyebrows are going downwards. The front of the face is just going to indicate the direction that the person is looking. So if you're tilting it downwards, it just shows that the face is tilting a little bit down. And it just shows where the lining of the eyes, nose, and lips should be. So we are still following that same guideline that we did in the beginning. Just making sure to do it in whatever fashion we need to in order to fit the description. If the person is slightly looking upward, slightly or can downwards, it's very dependent on them, but you just want to follow it first with lines. Don't just go straight into drawing the features because that can be a little bit of putting. So I recommend that you do this fast. And the line I just added, which was on the top of the small circle that's usually roughly where the forehead would be. And I added some hair as well just to show you guys a little bit of an extra idea of where the hand might be. This as well as obviously very different. Some people have long hair, short hair or no hair. But just to make it like they're female hair, I just wanted to add pi m. So also added in, for example, the nose and the eye area. Just to give you guys a little bit of a rough idea of where the areas would be. Obviously, this was not an actual proper drawing, it was just kind of a sketch. So for example, this area here is where the eye socket would be added at the nodes as well. Now I'm just going to show you the simple female face from the front. So still following those lines, that circular shape, that line down the middle. And once you get used to it, you don't always do it in the exact same order, but it's usually a bit easier to do that. So as we can see, the shape of the head is round. And then whatever the shape of the face is indicated when you are doing the joining between that circle and the chin. So if someone has a wider face, a very slim phase, or square or circular or very triangular. That is what will be visible when you're drawing these lines. And the straight lines indicate where the facial features will be. I'm always using this no matter who it is. And then you can work on drawing out the face. So I'm just gonna show you the positioning of the facial features such as the eyes, nose, lips on here, just so that you can see roughly just how it would look if he were to actually draw the features on.
4. Hands: So here I'm going to show you how to draw a hand and to shooting the basic shapes. Do so, we're not gonna go into any detail about shapes of the hands or the fingers or anything like that of the realism of it, just the outlines. And so I just begin by drawing the palm of the hand. It's more of a trapezius shape and the longest side, so the higher upside should be roughly where your index finger is, and then the smallest side is where your pinky finger is. Then we're just going to draw out the fingers. So I just draw simple lines first and put them all in the direction that the fingers are going. So I'm just using a basic hand in a kind of resting shape. And this is just to start the actual finger shapes and everything will come on later. This is just to give yourself a good idea. Then when it comes to the thumb, we're just going to draw lower triangular shape and then draw the thumb coming out of that and kind of connected into the hand and the palm. As you can see I'm doing here. And once again, not thinking about too much of the detail of the fingers or the thumb, just drawing the outline of it first. And the if I just wanted to show you guys that the shaping of the hands and the fingers, this also does it matter. Say for example, you can see here I've drawn quite square fingertips and everything like that. It doesn't have to be like that. It can be rounded. But this is just to draw kind of like a books out shape to follow afterwards. And then I'm just going to show you the tips of the fingers. So as you can see, I've drawn a curve shape. The fingers should align in this kind of way. Even if you have different length mangers, usually you have that kind of dome kind of shape going from your pinkie over to your index finger. So that's just how you draw a hand, a very basic hand. And I hope that this helps. And that's how you draw a basic handshape.
5. Fingers: And finally, I'm just going to show you the basic shape and outline of the fingers. This is just because obviously we don't want to be stuck with the blocky, blocky hands that we drew before. So just moving on now to kind of join the fingers. So the shape of the fingers differ obviously between everybody, but there are ways that they should be drawn to suggest them, meaning that they're in. So the underside of the finger is curved shape as you can see here. And this is because your fingers are bending, which creates indents. So your skin folds, which creates that curved shape. And obviously most of your fingers besides your thumb, will have three of these. So you want to kind of draw those individually. I do recommend that you draw your fingers as three parts. Don't just draw one whole finger as it is. And then the top side of your finger, as you can see I've drawn here is flat. So you have that curved shape underneath and that straight line on the top. And this actually changes depending on the way finger is Ben or the way your finger is positioned. So for example, your bumps will get bigger. So the curves underneath your fingers will get larger and more prominent when your finger is more bent. So just show you guys here a more straight finger, for example, fast. You can see the curve lines that I would normally draw quite curved underneath are going to be more flat because the finger is straight and you still want to draw each part, like I said, individually. So as you can see here, when I first draw that straight line, it does look a little bit odd. But once you draw those three little lines, even though they're all straight separately, it does make it look more finger-like rather than just one long straight line. And then we've got here a more bent finger just to kinda share lies that the more bent the finger is, the more prominently curves are underneath. And the straight lines are obviously still gonna be straight. But the way that you wrote, the way that you draw them is going to be in the shape that the fingers bent. Say for example here you can see I'm drawing them in Karnataka rectangular shape because the finger is basically completely bent over and dashes the way that you should enjoy your fingers just to make them a little bit more finger-like and pass the shape you should follow. So that's how you draw the fingers based on the way that they are shaped. I hope you enjoyed.
Djana Perduka
