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Now that you have a good idea of how to draw the head let's go ahead and talk about how we add facial

features to that and how we know where they go.

So depending on what style of character design you're doing this can vary.

But for this example we're gonna be using the Loomis head structure like I said before but you can change

things up.

So for example the eyebrow line sometimes when you're drawing a character you might actually draw a

different way and instead of marking out where the eyebrows are you might mark out where the eyes are

or instead of marking out where the bottom of the nose is you might mark out where the top of the nose

is.

So there's all these different things like that.

So we'll talk about that later in the course but just so you know all of this stuff can kind of change.

I'm just trying to give you a rough idea of how to draw the head so you have a good starting point.

All right.

So when we're drawing the head with the Loomis head we have all these lines marked out.

So if you remember this top line right here that's the hairline.

So when you go ahead and I'll label this

then we get the eyebrow line right here.

Then we get the nose line right here which are equally far away from the eyebrow line

and typically you're going to have the bottom of your nose set right on that line.

Now as you can see there's a little bit of space between this line right here and the bottom of the

circle and the hairline and the top the circles you always want to make sure that you have some space

in between there.

Next we want to mark out where the lips are.

So we want to mark out the middle of the lips between the top and the bottom line.

So what we want to do is we want to turn this to the side and we want to look at from the distance from

the chin to the bottom of the nose.

We want to divide that up into thirds now.

Typically the lip line will line right there on the bottom of the circle but depending on how the proportions

change you might have to change things a little bit.

But typically it's going to land right there.

If you divide this up into thirds so we're not going to get into how to draw lips yet that'll be in

a little while.

But let's just go ahead and kind of draw a line in right there and then we can kind of do a shallow

triangle shape going up like that and a little line down here that kind of curves up to represent the

shadow underneath the bottom left

and do two little lines angled downwards at the corners of the lip.

Then let's go ahead and let's draw the nose so for the nose.

I like to kind of start sketching it out by kind of drawing a shallow V shape like this that can then

kind of angled downwards and I like to draw the outside edges of the nostril just like that

and again noses are going to change from person to person.

That's why it's good to look at a lot of reference or get inspired by real people's faces so that you

can see the differences in different people's noses lips and all that good stuff.

The nose is just going to go up like this.

I'm just gonna draw a line like that just you can kind of see an idea of what the form of that nose

is even though typically you probably actually wouldn't draw that line next let's go and draw the eyebrows

and so eyebrows sometimes start a little bit more towards the center of the face a little bit past the

corner of the eye eyebrows come in all different shapes and sizes

right.

And since this is a male we're giving them a little bit thicker eyebrows if this was a female typically

their eyebrows are gonna be a little bit thinner a little bit more shaped and they're going to kind

of angle upwards a little bit they're gonna have more arms to them.

So something like that.

And again those will vary.

So you want to look at a lot of reference so you get an idea of different eyebrows.

Next let's have a look at the eyes so when it comes to the eyes we want to be able to fit five eyes

across a face.

So we start with the two eyes like this on a slowly sketch those end because I'm going to need to adjust

them a little bit as I go.

And then if you can imagine an eye needs to fit right in the middle of those two from corner to corner

and we need to be able to fit one of those eyes on this outside edge

All right so it's looking like we need it.

I kind of like this.

So I'm just gonna do an occurred arched rainbow shape now the eyes get a little bit more complicated

than this but for this purpose I'll just go ahead and simplify it.

Just kind of a arched shape like that and then a slightly curved line but they're basically going to

be two flatlines underneath that give them some eyelids

darken those eyebrows and a little bit more

and then for the irises let's go ahead just draw something in the irises are a whole nother story.

We'll talk about that more.

And another lecture.

But for now we're just going to put two circles in like that.

We want to make sure that the top of these circles are kind of covered.

Otherwise our person is going to look really really excited or scared if we can see the white of the

eyes above the IRS that's usually not a good thing and that's where we're going for that sort of book

kind of draw two lines out here for the years but we'll getting it years a little bit later.

All right.

So there's the basic placement of the face the cheekbones.

You could think of the cheekbones.

They would come down from this eyebrow line right there and kind of curve down like this and then down

to the chin.

This is kind of more part of the Loomis head that I accidentally left out.

But it's also part of the face so we'll just kind of sketch that in right now and that would just be

used as a guide.

So let's say that there was a light shining down from above on his face.

We could kind of just shade these and a little bit to add more form and depth to his face and kind of

show the structure of his skull a little bit more from behind it.

We can even shade in underneath the eyebrows like that.

We already had a little bit of shading underneath the nose.

All right great.

And then up here on the eye or on this line that's where the hairline would begin.

Now on some characters you might want to bring that down or you might want to bring it up or there might

be ball but in general your hairline is going to be about there.

And so we could kind of just kind of sketch in a little bit more of a hairline but we're not going to

get crazy detailed with it just because we're going to have a whole lecture on how to draw hair and

then another one on hairstyle

just kind of draw like that and then we'll kind of move over into the sideburns and we'll just give

this person a really really short hair that just basically sticks right to the edge of his head

right.

So let's go ahead and let's talk about how to draw from the side now.

So from the side is going to be basically the same.

So could draw a line like this coming off the bottom of this oval.

It doesn't line up perfectly so maybe we'll move that up a little bit because we want to divide this

in thirds the distance between the bottom of the nose and the chin so that we know our lip line is which

is going to be right there.

So go ahead just kind of mark that out for now.

That was going to work on the nose so the nose is going to start off kind of like a triangle.

So it's going to kind of angle up like that just a little bit and depending on how big you want your

character's nose to be will draw that triangle in like that.

And then what we can do is we can kind of just draw an oval right there just to kind of start shaping

that out a little bit more and the nose is going to go in like this to the bridge of the nose subtle

angle into the face a little bit and then kind of pop back out into the brow and depending on how much

brow you want your character to have this might protrude out more or be more angled out.

But for this it's just given kind of a pretty standard brow.

Just like that we can draw this line out kind of angle it out onto the shape of this oval

and then drawing the lips from the side they're going to protrude off of this line a little bit.

So they're going to kind of come off like this and go like that and then back for the top lip

they're going to draw a kind of a round shape like that for the bottom line

then we can have an angle in and then back out maybe I'll make this jaw come down just a little bit

more I don't think it's big enough.

And that's I think that's that's something you can do.

You can adjust this doesn't have to follow the Loomis head proportions perfectly because sometimes you

to want your characters to look different angles in than around for the chin and then into the jaw line

and then for the nose.

Let's go ahead and give it a natural hole just kind of a curved line like that.

That's what it's going to look like when we view it from the side to the side of the nostril kind of

add a little bit of shadow on the bottom of the nose like that next let's go ahead and draw the eyebrows.

So for the eyebrows

looking at it from the side they're gonna be pretty similar to how we see it from the front but they're

gonna get kind of squashed a little bit they're gonna be a little bit more short like that we can also

go ahead and kind of draw on the cheekbones so coming from this point right there it's going to come

over like this and then down like that.

So that kind of marks out the sort of the contouring from the cheekbone.

Next let's go ahead and draw the iron.

So in this case we can't really measure out five eyes across but we do want to make sure that it's close

enough to the bridge of the nose because if we draw the eye way back here which I is going to be drawn

like a curved line like that and then the top eyelash in the bottom eyelash you can see that drawing

it way back there.

It looks really weird and it doesn't look right.

So we need to make sure that we draw it close enough to draw it lightly make sure that it looks good.

So Mona place it right about there.

So the top lid is going to be kind of angled upwards in the bottom lid can kind of be angled downwards

and we get this slightly curved line which this line will continue on into the eyelid so we can add

another line like this it kind of moves up into the eyebrow and that kind of creates the form of the

brow.

Now let's go ahead drawn the iris so from the side we're just going to see kind of half an oval like

that we can fill that in

perfect.

And then again the hairline is gonna be right here so let's say that we gave our character some sort

of hairstyle that was kind of coming off like this

right.

It would start right there on that line and we can bring this down a little bit like that

and the sideburns

first kind of sketch in a shape for the hair so something like that

I'm just gonna sketch in a little bit of detail for the year but I'm not going to get crazy with it.

So I'm like that should be good.

All right great.

It's looking pretty good now.

To be completely honest this head might be stretched out a bit much that way I might should have squashed

that oval down just a little bit more.

But while you're designing your characters you're gonna have the time and the concentration to be able

to look at it and decide do I need to squash that.

Do I need to stretch it out and the more you draw the head the more you're going to see these things.

But it's not that this is completely unrealistic.

This this could be a real person but just to look a little bit more natural I might I might have squashed

it down a little bit so there wasn't so much space between this area.

All right great.

So that's where you should be placing all the different facial features now moving forward.

We're going to talk about more about the different parts of the body and eventually we'll get around

to more of the details on the face such as the eyes and nose and stuff like that.

Thanks for watching this lecture and I'll see you guys in the next 1.