The Complete Figure Drawing Course by Riven Phoenix: Figure Drawing Lesson 009 - The Formulas for the Side View of the Human Head - Phase 1 - Figure Drawing Storyboard Guide (Part 1/2)

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Hey guys, my name is Riven Phoenix and welcome to the structure of man, learn to draw the

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human figure from your mind training course.

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Okay, so in the previous lesson, we looked at a very simple formula method to be able to

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on the fly create a very realistic structure of the human skull, right?

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So these are like the seeker formulas that we've created that only we know.

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And here I proved to you that when I did my initial toolkit, when I did my initial sketch

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ideas, I can come back in and use those formulas to create very realistic skull, right?

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So obviously in as we move through this course, you'll see that we don't even have to

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do it this way, right?

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Because we will simplify the formulas so much that it will just become a no brainer.

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But you can see that we're already seeing that we would have to adjust the understanding

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of the toolkit, right?

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So through this process, you can see that we're we're getting to know the understanding,

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the structure of the figure in much more detail is like the secret understandings that only

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we know and that what's going to make the difference between the artists who is doesn't

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have the information to draw the figure and the artists that does, right?

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So if someone asks you how are you drawing these figures so realistically, you can go

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ahead and explain to them the journey, the story of your figure drawing, which is the

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structure of men.

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So what we want to do now is take a look at these formulas again and also look at the

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inside of this, right?

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So here you'll see that once we do the formulas one more time, it's just going to be like

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a sentence.

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It's like you're speaking sentences, right?

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So just start out what we said was, okay, the formula, the secret understanding of the

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design of the skull really is that we could just pull the line down, really doesn't matter

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how long it is.

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Once we have the line, we find the center of this, right?

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Just be our proximate with it and then draw a horizontal line making sure that it's

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like a 90 degrees, right?

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And we don't want to use a ruler here, just simply sketch it out like this.

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Once we have this, we just want to look at the height of the half of this, translate

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it over here, make sure that it's correct, just like this and we can just increase it just

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a little bit by its width and that's it, there's really no much to it.

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Once we have this, now we can draw out a very simple box around it, again, just get

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it out, right?

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And be accurate as possible if you're seeing that your lines are not, if your box is like

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a little odd chip, you obviously have to correct it, but if it's slightly off, if it's

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like slightly off, don't worry about it, right?

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Because it's really the, that's what's going to, the figure is very organic, right?

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Our invention of the figure is going to be organic anyways, but this is fairly, very

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approximate, very accurate.

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So once we did this, right, the first, the sentence of the formula for the skull was basically

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we were going to find the jaw line when it's facing this way, it's going to be the

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same thing facing that way, right?

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So we're going to do it this way.

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So here I start from the center, bottom, divide, divide up, I get the point where the

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jaw should be from here to here, I find the center of this line here, divide again, I

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get the center of this divide again, and basically I know that this is where the, the line

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for the jaw should be, and I just start curving, and I end up over here.

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And this gives me that very subtle angle for the, the skull, right?

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So here I'm just going to be sketchy about this, right?

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So just do like this, like you're sketching out the skull.

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So the back of the skull was from when you know the center, from here to here, you know

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the center, you go down, dividing, and then you go up, and basically you get the back

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of the skull.

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And you basically, that eyeball that you want to come kind of like close to the center where

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you'll start to turn up, and to turn up, it was very easy.

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From here to here, we find the center over here, from here to here, we find the center

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over here.

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Right?

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So basically we need to divide from, if we pull this line here, we look at this, we find

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the center, and then divide, and that's basically it.

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We just come down like this, and we can just sketch out at the skull over here, like notice

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that I'm just sketching it out, like these rough lines, the design of the skull.

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The next thing was, we know that there's a flat area over here, and we need to understand

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the curve is very easy, from here to here, we find the center, from here to here, we find

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the center, and then here, we're going to find that center point from here, and that's

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basically it.

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We just come back in this direction, come this way, then we need to come over here.

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We know from here, where we were in the center, from center, from here to here, if you divide

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this in half, we know that it's going to be this angle, then it's going to flat line

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on top, over here, it's going to be the same thing from here to here.

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We divide this in half, divide this, we know that it's going to be all flat over here,

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then it's going to start to curve.

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The curve was very simple, as long as we know the center of this box, so here I'm just

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going to say that this is the center, from here, so basically from here to here is the

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center, right?

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It's like a horizontal line, I just need to find the center over here, and I can curve

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it, but I know that there's, because of the way the temple is, we can't just curve it,

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we can just assume from now, so from here to here, I know that this is going to be here,

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then I know if I divide it up, this is where it should touch, right?

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So it just should be an obvious statement, that when you're curving it, you should know

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that, right?

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The temple is just going to be like this, meaning that you really don't have to measure this

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part, you just know that, for now on you'll know that it's just going to be here, right?

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So once this starts going in this direction, we know that it's going to collide with this

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angle, from here, this is the box, right?

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This is the box, from here to here, if there was a line here, this is the collision course

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it would hit, and this collision course, it goes, it's like a line that's going, going

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this way, then it starts going this way, then from here, this corner here, we know that

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it's, this is the point that needs to start turning, and the angle that it hits, it can't

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come here, it needs to come somewhere here, and that was very simple, from here to here,

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I divide this, divide this, that's basically it, I just come like this, over here, and

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then here, I can finish off, let's go, right?

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So this area here, it's really the bone of the nose here, and then your nose will come

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in this way with the cartilage, right?

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But notice that how easy that formula was.

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So all we have to do now is figure out the inner workings of this, which is very simple.

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So where this point is, right, and we understand that there's a box here, basically if you

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divide this in half, you just know that from here, see how this is a little above and this

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is a little bottom, you just need to come like this, like a curve, don't even touch this

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point, just know that it's going to curve, and where this line is, you're going to curve

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like this, and there, and just do it this way.

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So this gives you like the eye socket for your skull, right?

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It's a very simplified design over here, and that's it.

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Now for the cheek bone, where we were at the jaw, all we have to do is from here, we have

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to somehow create a line that defines the cheek bone.

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So meaning that where this eye socket is, there's actually a bone here that separates it.

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So you can just determine like a width, just come up with a width, come like this, and

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go in this direction, like this, and then just do this over here, right?

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And this gives you the top of your cheek, and the bottom of the cheek is very simple.

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Since we know the center of this box is right here, and we know the center of this line

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is here, if we divide this in half, and that's it, right, we can just simply go like this,

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and then we can just make a curvature going in this direction.

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And this curvature is basically where this center is, it's just coming to the middle

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like this.

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So usually I just do this, and this gives me enough information to do the skull.

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Okay, so once we have this defined, we now need to understand how it's the jaw supposed

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