The Complete Figure Drawing Course by Riven Phoenix: Figure Drawing Lesson 012 - The Formulas for the Front View of the Human Head - Figure Drawing Storyboard Guide (Part 1/2)

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This visual storyboard guide for Figure Drawing Lesson 012 - The Formulas for the Front View of the Human Head provides step-by-step figure drawing instruction with annotated frames and detailed descriptions.

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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 I showed you how you can just use the basic formulas that

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we've understood so far of creating the human skull and here we had created a character

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design.

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I've just cleaned it up a little bit showing you that as you go through your drawing phases

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and processes you can create different types of character designs.

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So my, like an idea that I would suggest here is that once you have this information

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that I've given you so far is to try out doing different types of character designs

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and also experiment with what would happen if you stretch and squash the formulas,

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giving you different types of characters that you can create.

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That's the power of these formulas regardless of what the idea looks like.

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You can make anything look like a figure.

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Okay, so what we want to do now is we want to look at the front formulas of the human

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skull.

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So what we've been doing is, I've been, we've been looking at it in a much more slower

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process where we were investigating in just getting the mind really warmed up and used

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to the ideas formulas, ideas formulas.

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So what we're going to do now from now on is that when we move forward we really don't

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have to spend so much time in looking and investigating at the formulas because we always

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do the much more simpler, right?

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And this is what will happen with the front formulas.

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And really the human skull is where we're going to be spending more time on it is because

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that's really the key object to get.

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Everything else regarding the other parts of the human skeleton that we will create all

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the other bones are going to be very simple.

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There are really no brainers when you look at them as to how to understand them.

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Okay, so for the front formula is going to be very simple.

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So what we want to do is draw out a straight line over here and this is going to be the

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height for the head.

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So here I'm just going to draw it out like this over here and just say that this is the

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height of the head.

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And basically all I have to do is once again just divide this in half, right?

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So once I've divided this in half I'm just going to make a plus sign just like I did

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on the side view and making on the front view.

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So once that's done we can basically now figure out all the places of the key areas of the

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human skull from the front.

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So basically what we want to do is when we're here, now just notice that this division

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here has to be exactly the same, right?

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So this is really going to be the line for your eye over here.

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So from here to here just divide this in half and then come down if you divide this in

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half and then from here to here divide this in half again this is going to be the area

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for your brow area over here.

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And if you take this from here to here divide this in half you're going to get the bone

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area for your nose.

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Okay, just like this.

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It's a very simple concept.

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So basically what happens is that throughout your drawing ability or drawing out the figure

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you really just have to remember that as soon as you find out the area for the brow basically

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you need to take this whole line here and divide it in half which is going to be roughly

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around here.

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Okay, once you do this you've already found the bottom of the nose.

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Okay, so in the skull we already know that there's a hole here for the nose goes.

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So here I'm just going to make like a drawing over here just like this.

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And that's it.

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Right, so don't make it too wide just make it kind of like this and you can adjust your

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understanding of it as we move along.

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There really isn't much formula needed to get this concept.

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So basically when you get the bottom of the nose you need to divide from here to here in

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three different sections.

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Right, so if I take a look at this and if I just fiddle with it a little bit and say

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that okay this is going to be how I'm going to divide this we've now figured out the construction

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for the mouth and the chin area.

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So what this line is this is the line for your mouth where your teeth will meet and this

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line here is the bottom of your teeth right so your top of your teeth will be here and

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the bottom of the teeth will be here and here will be your gums.

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So this gives you enough room for the area for the chin.

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So one thing that I want you to notice if you just take your index finger and put it below

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the your lip area here's your bottom of your lip and put your finger over here.

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So you'll notice that you can feel the bottom of your teeth meaning that the upper lip

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is really sorry the bottom lip is really just going to where this line is for the mouth.

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The bottom lip is really going to be always over here and this space here is going to be

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the area where you're touching.

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Meaning that this tells you how much space you really have and this gives you enough room

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for doing the chin right so this will keep you away from doing the chin too small.

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And that's really it.

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Once you figure that out you can just very slightly this is the mouth area just give it

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like just a small mouth over here for now.

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So once we've done this what we need to do now is figure out how wide is the skull

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supposed to be well it's actually very simple.

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See this area here this was the mouth area and this is the bottom of the teeth the gum

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area that I said so this basically is your width.

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So if you take this from here and measure it and translate it over here you'll get the

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the width of the human skull now you have the right to actually move this in a little

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bit if you wanted to right me sometimes you want to do a skull that's a little more

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elongated but this is typically the size of the human skull in this way right so here

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I'm just going to specify that this is the width.

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So here I'm just going to measure twice make sure that I got this right okay.

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So as soon as I have this all we have to do is really now just figure out the contour

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of the top and the jaw area and figure out the eye socket.

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So let's work on the eye socket here and this is going to be very simple.

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Basically when you have the brow area and you have this point here at the top of this

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if you divide this in half right over here you basically all you need to do is make like

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a cube a square in here in this area.

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See this I made a square.

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Once I have this I just need to repeat the same process on the other side and make sure

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you're doing this as accurately as possible.

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So once you have this square you've got the width of your eye right so the length of

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the like the eyes are going eyes are always the three lengths apart right one eye one eye

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and one eye in the middle that gives you the distance.

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So from here if I measure this I'm just going to put a mark over here and a mark over

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here right and then here I'm just going to make a box over here going in this direction,

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box over here and going in this direction.

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So I'm going to visually check here do I have the right amount of space on this end because

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I want it to be as accurate as possible right so here you'll see that this box here

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is where your eye socket is going to be so all you have to do is now take this box

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