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Figure Drawing Lesson 011 - The Formulas for the Side View of the Human Head - Phase 3 - 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 Human Figure from your Mind Training Course.


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Okay, so now in the previous lesson we had looked at how we are beginning to simplify the formulas,


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meaning that your mind is clever enough that once it understands the basic principle of the formula,


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that we can start to let go of a lot of things and because it's now beginning to understand the conceptual idea of how the skull is supposed to be designed.


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Right, so in the previous lesson we had looked at the ear and these two lines here and knowing that this is when it's sitting on the axis,


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while the top of the ear and the bottom of the ear matter. Right, so we're building up the information very slowly in these microbursts.


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So what I want to show you now in this lesson is that just with this knowledge that you have here, you can create your own character design. Right, just using this formula.


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So if you've not drawn, let's say if you've had difficulty drawing the human head and trying to come up with the own character design,


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struggle with it, you'll see just with this knowledge, you'll be able to create very realistic character design of just the head at this moment.


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Right, so for this, what we're going to do is really just use a much more artistic style of drawing the head out using the same formula method.


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Right, so in this example, we'll just say conceptually that we just need a design in place so we can create the character out of like a realistic head.


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Right, so do that here. I'm just going to draw out a line over here just like this.


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If I'm going to cut it over here, I'll just cut it over here actually.


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I don't want to get too big so it'll take too much time to do it.


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And then over here, I'm just going to divide this in half and really just divide, make a plus sign like this very simply just like that.


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Right, just notice when I'm being artistic about the whole thing now. Right, so here I'm just going to make sure that I've measured everything right over here.


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And I'm just going to increase it just a little bit over here on both sides.


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So once I have this, I just need to use the very basic simple sentences that we created for the formulas to create the skull.


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So from here to here, when I divide this in half, go up. I know this is where the jaw is going to be from here to here.


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When I divide this line in half, we're just going to be about here, divide in half, divide in half.


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I'm just going to basically get the line for the jaw and then I can start to curve in and just stop at this point over here.


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Where the bottom of this box is supposed to be, just like this.


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Okay, so from here to here, if I divide this and go down, go up.


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I know that this is going to be the bottom of the skull and from here,


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I just need to find the center of this over here at this point here.


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And then from here to here, really just understanding where the center is.


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Over here is going to be about here over here and then divide in half.


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And basically I know that this is where the angle is going to start to turn over here.


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The top is very easy as long as you know this point over here.


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Right, you just need to find the center and come back.


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And then you've got the back of this and then coming all the way from the top is very easy from here to here.


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If you divide over here and you know that it's going to touch here, it's going to flat line over here.


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And then from here, we know that this is the box, the corner of it over here here.


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It's going to start to curve and then from here, find the center of this whole box here, up, up.


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We know it's going to start to curve here.


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From here to here, we know it's just the center of this and it's just going to come down like this over here.


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And from here to here, we can just start to curve like this, following these lines here.


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And then from this guy to here, we know that it's going to stop here.


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So we know from here to here, we just divide in half, divide again.


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And we know that this is going to stop here and that's basically it.


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I get my very realistic skull over here.


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And I know for the eye socket is that once I have this center this by divide over here and half,


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I know that from here, it's just going to go like this.


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I'm going to get the eye socket over here.


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From here, so basically I just need this bone structure here.


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From here, I just need to connect this, get the top of the cheek.


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And from here to here, if I go here, I'm going to get the bottom of the cheek and just curve it up.


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Just a little bit like this.


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And this line over here for the skull is very easy.


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From here to here, we know, divide in half.


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Then we go up, up a little more.


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Basically, just go like this.


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And the center of this is where this guy is just going to come like this.


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We get the skull design over here.


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And the jaw line is basically where this point is of defining the center of this box.


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It's really just this line, curving this way.


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And for the nose, it's just coming in this direction.


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Knowing from here, that if I divide this in half, go up.


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This is, and from this point, to this point, really,


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this is where the line for the nose is supposed to be.


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This is, again, as soon as you have divided, you know that this is where the mouth is supposed to be.


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It's going to be on this angle.


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So from here, if I take this, the bottom of this, this, this, dividing half, go up.


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I know that this is just basically the line for the mouth.


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And the ear is obviously very simple.


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We know that we just pulled the line.


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And as long as we knew from here to here, the center over here,


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we're just going to pull it like this, come back in, and we've got our skull.


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Right? So from here to here, here, is the axis.


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From here to here, to here, is the axis.


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So it's really going to be standing on that axis.


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So let me actually, I like to use a paper here for this.


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It's easy to draw straight lines, but when they're on it,


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I like to use that paper so I can draw these lines on an angle over here.


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Right? So this is really just the axis, all of this.


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Okay. So you can see we were quickly able to do this.


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Now we can just erase this stuff here.


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Really even just erase this axis line here.


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Right? So erase some of this stuff and look at how the skull is going to be over here.


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And really just now be creative about this and create like a character design for it.


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Right? So like a character design would be, you can put hair on it, whatever you want.


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So here I'm just going to make like, let's say a sci-fi design over here.


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So let's say that this guy here is going to have like this band over here on his hand.


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I'm going to be just doing a conceptual idea here.


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Right? Nothing realistic or anything.


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And then over here, let's say on the top of his head,


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he's going to have like this thing over here.


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That's going to go like this.


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And then over here we can just put down,


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but these ideas here for, let's say he has some electronic stuff on the top of his head,


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going in all these different directions in here.


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Right? So of course the more you work on it, the more realistic you can get these things to look like.


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So here I'm just going to put some designs here.


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Let's say it's some kind of a technology thing that he has over here.


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Just like this in here, I can just even start to erase some of this stuff over here.


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Right? So let's say that he's going to have some circular things over here.


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Just like this.


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Right? So if you were doing like sequential art referring to like doing comic books and stuff or manga,


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you can see how easy it is to use this knowledge.


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So maybe let's say we can even put like some hair over here, given some hair going in this direction.


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It's just coming out a little bit.


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Right? So this is nothing more than just a conceptual idea here.


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Right? So for his ear here, now we don't want to get too much in here.


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Like if you haven't drawn the eyes, we don't have to worry about that.


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You can actually, let's say for the eyes, we'll put like this device here.


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Right? When we get to the eyes, we'll look at all that information later right now.


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Let's not frustrate the mind at all.


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I'm just going to put this here. He's going to have, he's like wearing something here.


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Right? So my suggestion is, since you already know how to draw the skull,


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you understand the concept of it, you can do all types of designs here,


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all types of character designs here that you want.


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Something like this over here.


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We can do the nose like that.


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His eyebrows.


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Right? And you don't even have to follow all these lines that we did.


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You can just start to put, right? Just take that lesson from Michelangelo surface anatomy,


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all these little angles that you should be aware of.


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Right? Just put your angles down how they should be.


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So here I'm just going to simplify this right now.


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