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 2/3)

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middle, here, in here, perfect, right, in here we can just get rid of this line, over here,

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okay, so once we've done this, right, what this is is, this is the line for where the

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I line is going to be over here, okay, so now what we're going to do is take these formulas,

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the front formulas and put them on this line and just compare the features and see what's

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really going on here, okay, so if I, let me make sure it's straight over here, so if I

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now take a line down, actually I'm going to pull that line from here, I want to make sure

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that this is correct, okay, so I pull this line down, this is the height for my head from

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the front here, okay, so our rule was that when we divide this in half and divide down,

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we're going to get the area for the brow area over here, right, and then from here, if we

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look at this whole line, we can just mark the center of this and say this line here, we've marked

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the center, we know that this is going to be the bottom of the nose, okay, so if we look at this,

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I'm going to have to stretch these lines out to make sure it all makes sense to you here, so if I

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stretch, now again, it's all about approximation here, right, you don't have to be perfect as long

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as you understand the concept, so if I stretch a line from the bottom of the nose over here, you'll

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see that because we have to tilt this, that this is now making perfect sense, right, so here was the

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design for the opening of the nose over here, just like this, okay, so we've got the brow over here,

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so if I stretch a line for the brow, I can see okay, where does it exactly hit on this idea over

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here, right, so if I look at this and now stretch this line here hitting the brow area over here,

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I want to look at this and see what happens, so now you see that there's a curve over here, so you

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will know in your mind that when you're drawing this in through you that there's a curve over here,

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right, so our concept was that all you have to do is divide this in half over here, so if we now

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stretch this line from here to here, you'll see that the reasoning behind this was because it's just

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going to end up being this junction over here, this bone structure for the nose area, this is like

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this bone coming down over here, like so, okay, so once and then we just did this, right, so in the

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original idea that we did, we just filled in this nose just like this, right, so we can see here

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that over here the bone actually comes down a little more here, so for the future what we'll do

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is we'll just stretch it like this, right, we'll make it a little more smaller for the skull, this

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will give us much more room for the bone for the nose, right, and this is where we're just

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adjusting this formula because we're going through a discovery process as to how this is looking,

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remember this is the concept of the microverse that I'm showing you that as you go through the

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process, you're just going to take small amounts of information and start to put them down and experiment

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with them, okay, so now once we have this, what we want to do is we said that all we have to do is

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just divide this in three different sections, right, so I'm going to divide this, this, take a look

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this, this is exactly matching up with a mouth just like I had stated to, right, so here if I take

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this line from here to here, it's just going to be like this, the top of the mouth, right, and we

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know that this is going to be the bottom of the teeth, right, so the bottom of the lip is going to be

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here, the top of the lip, this will give us enough room for the area for the chin area over here,

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okay, so now that we've done this, we know that this bottom here is really just basically the height

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for, I'm sorry, the width of this head here, so this is my center, it's not this one, it's this,

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so here I'm just going to look at this and go over here and really just mark this down like this,

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and mark this down like this, right, so this will, now you can come in a little bit if you want to,

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right, sometimes I like to come in a little bit so I can give the skull a little more elongated view,

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it doesn't really matter, right, you're just nudging it by a little bit, no big deal, right, because

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the formulas really don't change, it's a part of the formulas, we can do different types of

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very realistic designs of the human skull, different variations of it, right, so you can do it

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this way if you want to, I'm just punching it in a little bit because I like to keep my designs,

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a little more squished in, okay, so once we figure this out, we know that all we have to do is just

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divide this in half over here and make like a square, like as long as we have like a square over here,

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over here and do the same thing over here, just like this, right, so it's better to just,

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since this is a bigger drawing, it's better to just measure, so once I've gotten this, I'm going

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to take this whole width over here and translate it over here, just like this, then translate it

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over here, just like this, right, so I'm going to make that box area over here for the eye socket,

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and over here I'm going to get that box, just like this, I'm going to basically translate it

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down here also, knowing that really from here to here it was really just halfway, right, if the

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nose was here, just like this, very easy concept, right, so now if you compare this with the side view

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of our original design over here, you'll notice that you look at the eye socket over here,

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that we've got the cheek coming pretty much close to this, so let's take a look at what's going

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to happen here, so if I go like this, right, from this line to this line, over here, and already

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said, where this division was, if I go up above, I'm going to make this, like this shape over here,

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right, and then this guy here, where this is, you find, just divide in half over here, and then

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come back in this way over here, like this, I'm going to pretty much get what I've been looking for,

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like this over here, right, it's going to give me that organic look, right, so if you compare this

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from here, you can see that it's really the same thing over here, as long as we got the eye socket

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a little down over here, right, there's really no difference into how this is being done, it's just

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approximated idea here, right, this is like this, and we could have just pulled it down a little more,

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so in this sense, now we know that we just need to figure out the top of this, which is very easy,

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since I'm just going to look at this, compare this over here, right, I'm going to get this line

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over here, like this, and this line over here, like this, right, now I'm just being artistic about it,

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from where this is, just going down, like this over here, and just looking at what we've been doing,

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so if you take from here, I'm sure this is correct here, it's about here, right, so if you take this from

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here, as long as you find this here, from this point here, the center of this,

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about here, divide this in half, I know that it's just going to be coming like this,

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and it's going to go like that, in this direction here, right, and it's the same thing over here,

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as long as I have it like this, divide this in half like this in here,

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basically going to get the same concept over here also, right, so just look at it, and just get it out like this,

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and here you'll see that this thing here is really just going to go about its own direction over

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here in the 3D4, right, so now we come to the area for the cheekbones, you'll notice that the cheek

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is over here, if you compare it, it's about here, right, so meaning that over here, we really should

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be coming down like this, right, because in reality it's going to be like this, so we can adjust that

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formula also, right, so we've made two adjustments in our understanding of the, the skull, that we want to

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give this area here, right, before I told you to do this, the reason for this is because we didn't

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have this information, now we do, just like I showed you before, when you discover something, you add it,

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so we know that over here, right, it's just going to, from here, it's just really just turning this way

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over here, this way, and it's just going to be like this, and over here's the same thing, where this is,

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the original ideas for the formula is just going to be like this, right, this gives us a good idea

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for the skull, and here I'm just going to be sketchy about this, okay, okay, so all we have to do now is

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where we're at the bottom of this, we just need to take a look at this and figure out the jaw line,

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from here to here, and then divide back, we know that this over here, a little bit in,

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it's going to be just the jaw over here, and then over here, to divide like this and come back in,

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pretty much going to get the same thing over here, and where the bottom of this is, we can just start

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turning in here, and we know that this from here is going to just end up here, right, from here to here,

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and that's just it, and that gives us the design for the skull, just like this, and everything else

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where this is, we can just take the jaw from here and take it like this, we know that this is where

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the, see where this is, this is where the mouth is basically going to be, right, so here you can give

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like a three-dimensional view, okay, so now that we've done this, compared it, and we looked at,

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we adjusted this area here, and here we stated that when we do this, we'll just see this where I did this

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line over here, that's what I did over here, right, we can adjust this and make it a little more

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bigger over here, coming close to the area for the nose, right, so the important thing about this

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area here is just going this way, just like that, that's very simple, so what we'll do in the next

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