The Complete Figure Drawing Course by Riven Phoenix: Figure Drawing Lesson 013 - The Journey to 3/4 view of Human Skull - Part 1 - Figure Drawing Storyboard Guide (Part 1/3)

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This visual storyboard guide for Figure Drawing Lesson 013 - The Journey to 3/4 view of Human Skull - Part 1 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 we had looked at the formulas for the front view and they

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were very simple and you should have mastered the front by now because it was very simple

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to understand.

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So, so far in our journey of understanding the invention of the human sculpt that we

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are creating, creating all the rules for ourselves, we understand how it looks from the side

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and we also understand how it looks from the front.

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So what we're going to do now is something very fascinating in artistic thinking and

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that is how to get the mind to understand your ideas into a 3D form, right, so to be able

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to draw the human head, just free hand, we need to come up with a very simple formula

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mechanism that will allow us to always draw out the human skull in any pose that we want

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without using very complicated formulas, right, so here the formulas that I've shown you

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are very simple anyways, right, but we're going to turn this into a 3D object so we can

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draw it in any angle.

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So to do that, we're going to use the power of these formulas and begin to see how we

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can, how to get the mind to go through this process of simplifying its concepts and going

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through the investigation process where it will start to discover conceptual concepts,

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the only we would know, right, these secret understandings.

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So to do this, what we need to do is put the side view in the front view side by side

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and look at all the stuff that we've been doing as to how everything compares to other

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and from within it, we will discover a very fascinating aspect of drawing out the human

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head.

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So to do this, what we want to do is draw the side view of the human head, so here I'm

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just going to go down this way here in this direction and just draw it out like this.

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So in this exercise, I want you to be as accurate as possible because this is going to be

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a big deal here to be as accurate as possible, right, and if we find that you're a little

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off, it's okay as long as you understand the concept.

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So here I'm just going to draw the side view, I'm going to make sure that this is a nice

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plus sign over here, just like this over here, right, and just do everything freehand

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over here.

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Okay, once I have this, I'm going to make sure, first of all, to measure this, and make

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sure that I got this right and then translate that over here to here and translate that

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over here to here.

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So basically I can stretch it a little bit to the left like this and do the same thing,

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stretch it a little bit to the right.

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Okay, okay, so here we've got the secret formula that we've been working with.

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So here for this formula, what we want to do is we need to actually create the grid again.

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This is going to be an important step.

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Also you'll see why that is in a little bit, right, we said that we don't have to really

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do this, but in this step we kind of do, we have to bring that out or grid back so we

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can make sure that we're doing everything accurately as possible, because this is really

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just like a discovery process phase that we're going through.

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Okay, and then this over here and be just like this, right, so this gives me like the

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grid that I want to work with over here.

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Okay, so to draw out the skull from the side, it was very easy.

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From here to here, I divide this in half, go up, I get the line for the jaw, from here

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to here.

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I should really just divide this in half, divide, divide, I get the line here to define the

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jaw at the angle, and I'm just going to come down over here like this, right, very simple.

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Once I already had this in the middle point, I'm going to divide down, divide up, I'm going

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to get the bottom of the skull over here.

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I'm going to halfway, then I just need to find the center of this, I need to find the

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center of this, make a line over here, and then maybe basically divide this and then

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divide this.

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I get the point where I'm supposed to start to curve and I'm going to get that skull.

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Over here, again, it was very simple concept over here, I'm going to divide this from here

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to here in half, just eyeball it, and over here, I'm going to get that line again for

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the skull, and I know from here to here, it's going to just come here and it's going to

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flat by over here, from here to here, if I divide this in half here, it's going to flat

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line all the way from here and it's going to start to curve.

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Then just find the center of this box here really over here, if I go here and up, I know

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that I'm going to be supposed to touch this line and start to curve down from here to

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here, I'm going to just start to curve down in this way and keep going until I get from

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here to here, I get that junction over here, it's going to hit, and where this is from

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here to here, I'm going to get that turn, and that turn has to come over here somewhere,

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right, so it's from here to here, if you divide this and have, divide this, you're going

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to get it over here, and that's basically it, that gives us the skull, and we know from

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the eye socket, it's very simple, as long as you know the middle of this, you just need

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to curve it from here like this, and just come like this, this is where the eye socket

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is going to be, once we have this, we can just define the bones structure like this,

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from here we're going to connect it over here, so this is the middle of this coordinate

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over here, when I divide up, I know that the cheek is really going to be going like this

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over here, and we said that we can just curve it up like this, okay, and over here we

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know that the line for the nose is kind of like this over here, so if we divide this

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in half and go up, we know that the line from here to here is supposed to join, we'll

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just know that that's basically where the nose is supposed to be, and then where this

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middle is, we know that this is where the mouth is supposed to be, and from here to here,

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if I go up, I'll get the line for the mouth, and where this line is, I can just get the

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jaw over here, right, and from this section here, I'm just going to go up, so meaning

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that, I mean I already know it's going to be here, here, here, so I can just eyeball it,

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so here I'm just going to go like this, make it look like a nice curve, and this is

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the middle of this coordinate, I'm just going to switch around, come here, the last thing

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is the ear, just go here, from here to here, we had divided this in half and go here,

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you can just come this way, as long as this circle comes close to this, what the point

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is of this, and we just make the placement for the ear, right, so now we need to find the

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axis, which is here, here, here, I'm going to get this axis here, from here, I'm going

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to divide this in half, over here, I get the axis, so now I'm going to draw out the

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axis, over here, just like this, and for this I'm going to use a paper, right, because

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it's easy to draw hairs down through vertical lines, or freehand, when you're drawing

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like this, it's better to just use like a ruler, right, so this is my axis, over here,

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and so we now we know that we have to turn this page like this, so we're looking at it

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on the axis, and this is how the human skull actually has to fix, so to fix this, what

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we have to do is now, I'm just going to take this paper, see where this top is over

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here, we're going to make a right angle, I'm going to line up this edge of the paper

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against this axis over here, make sure I got it right, on that point, make sure I do

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this right, and I'm just going to pull a line all the way like this, I'm going to do

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the same thing on this end over here, see the bottom of the chin, it's going to be an

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axis over here, so this thing, just going to be, make sure it's lined up correctly, bring

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it all down, and just make a line over here, pull it all the way, just like this, right,

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so this is where the lines are going to be following, so now we know that all we have

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to do is really divide this line in half, right, so it's going to be half of this, so

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basically all this is that, from here to here, I'm just going to make sure that this is

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in the, pretty much in the center, and just pull a line like this, right, okay, so you

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can just check this if you did this right, if you didn't, you might need to adjust this,

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so here I'm just going to pull this just a little bit down, so I'm on an angle here,

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right, so I'm going to pull this line just a little down over here, so it becomes in the

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