The Complete Figure Drawing Course by Riven Phoenix: Figure Drawing Lesson 014 - The Journey to 3/4 view of Human Skull - Part 2 - Figure Drawing Storyboard Guide (Part 1/2)

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This visual storyboard guide for Figure Drawing Lesson 014 - The Journey to 3/4 view of Human Skull - Part 2 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 human

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figure from your mind training course.

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Okay, so in the previous lesson, we went through this process of comparing all the formulas

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that we've been working with and looking at how we can now begin to create a three-dimensional

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understanding of the human skull, right?

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And so we need an ability, a very rapid ability, to draw the human skull out without

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much effort because we now, we've got the mind to understand how everything is working

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in the human skull.

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So what we want to do now is use a method of artistic thinking, is where we can now

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use an invention, this is all an invention here.

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Now we will, from it, create a three-dimensional invention concept.

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So if you take a look at this, you'll notice something very cool in here and that is that

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if you look at how this is being compared, take a look at this area here.

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See this shape here?

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If you turn this into a circle, right, this will give us the ability, which is draw out

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the human skull in just using one circle, right, but not only this, take a look at this.

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If you have this circle, and if you now divide this circle in half, so I'm going to

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here to just divide this circle in half, I'm looking at this circle, I'm going to divide

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this circle in half, right?

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So if you take a look at the distance over here, you can just add that same distance.

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See this distance, this distance, it's just this distance adding here, right?

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So you now you know that okay, as long as I make this circle, I just need to add a

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distance down to draw out the skull.

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So the other thing that we also should note is that when the lips and all the, like the

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chin comes and then the lips, what happens is that this just becomes a flat area, right?

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So we just need to understand that we all, what really we're just going back to the

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same concept that we've been doing when we drew out the actual toolkit is that we just

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draw a circle here and just come back, but what this gives you is a massive understanding

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of how you can now draw out the skull in a 3D form by using just a ball shape, right?

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And once we have this, if we take a look, if we divide this ball shape in half, let

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me just divide this in half over here, I'm just going to divide it in half, going in

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this direction.

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Look at what's happening to the jaw, right?

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The jaw is turning with a mouth, right?

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So we also have this as a clue, right?

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So we've done a circle.

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So because where this is, there's the approximation of this is so close, we can just put the jaw

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over here because when the meat goes on it, it'll just be like this anyways and it comes

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in this angle just like this.

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Okay, so that's one concept and the other thing is even from the front is the same thing.

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We can just draw it out using a ball shape, the front of the head and could have just

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done this, right, and we can just wing it by going in this way, we know how this is

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going to work, as long as where the mouth is, look where it turns, right, this is the

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mouth, right, this is the bottom of the teeth, this is where it's turning over here from

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the front and this is where the mouth is, this is where the turn came, right, where the

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mouth was under it, where the mouth is over here, but under the teeth, right?

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So it's like this term over here that we can just simplify there, right, where the mouth

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is, I'm just going to do it kind of like under it, right?

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So you can do different variations of it, right?

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So that's one concept.

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So to understand that, what I'm seeing is that now when I draw out the skull, I could

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have just done like a circle over here, right, and just done this and because of where

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this line is, look where it's meeting, this junction, right?

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I could have just done this and come in this direction over here like this, right, because

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look where this ends, right, it's here, this is here, right, that from here to here, it's

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that the half of this and the half of this.

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So over here is the half of this, this, I know that this is just going to be the back

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of the skull, right?

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We've simplified this concept so much that we just understand and basically where this

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jaw is is ending on the half of the circle, see, this, this is half and we divided this

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and half this over the jaw is, so over here is the same thing, half of this, we know that

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this is where the jaw is supposed to be and this will give us the idea for the jaw over

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here, right?

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So now let's take a look at understanding how to do this front area over here, right?

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So we already know that this line here is the eye line over here, right?

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But the half of the circle is always the brow line, so when I divided this in half over

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here, I know that this the brow is going to be here, obviously the eyes are going to

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be here because look, if I take two lines over here just like this, automatically this

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just be it turns into, this is the center for the eye line, this is my brow area.

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So now we know that we just need to understand where the eye line is, it's just going to

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be like this, right?

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It's just going to be coming in this direction over here, just like this, so basically you

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can just come like this and puff up the nose over here, right?

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So you know that okay, it's just going to be like this and I just, from where this

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brow is, I already know that if I do this, it's going to be the bottom of the nose anyways,

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right?

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So by this in three different parts, this is the top of the mouth, right?

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So once I've done this, what I'm going to do now is just take a look at the eye socket

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and look at this line over here where this is going, it's just basically going a little

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down over here in this area where the jaw is, right?

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So for the eye socket, I already know that I just need to do the eye socket like this

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and just go in this direction over here, I already know that I need to come pretty much

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with the, the nose is like this and here I pretty much got the skull down and over here,

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I can just eyeball this, right?

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Look where this is going, like this, over here, I can just eyeball this and make it like

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so, right?

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And this gives me a very quick understanding of how to draw out the skull very fast.

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Right?

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So you should just study your formula to see what I've shown you so far, so how easy it

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is going to be, right?

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So over here, it's the same thing, right?

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Once you understand where the eye line is, right, this is the brow, you just know where

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the nose is going to be, you divide this in three different parts here, you know that

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this is going to be the area for the, the mouth and this is the bottom of the, the teeth

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and this is going to be a chin area, this is going to be your bottom of the nose, right?

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Your eye line and this is going to be your brow, right?

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So what this means is that I can, if I had to draw this in 3D, I can just do it like

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this, right?

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If I, let's say I draw like this ball shape over here, let's say that this is like going

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to be the design for the skull, I'm just going to sketch it out and here, I'm just going

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to let's say, let's say we're going to do it like this way over here, we're going to

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do it like this, we know that as soon as, see this line here in the half, as soon as

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I do this, I can just look at this and make an assumption that it's just going to be

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here, just like this and I'll get my, to my jaw line over here, just like this, right?

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Because where this is, this line here, right, it's just the middle of this.

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