The Complete Figure Drawing Course by Riven Phoenix: Figure Drawing Lesson 015 - The Journey to 3/4 view of Human Skull - Part 3 - Figure Drawing Storyboard Guide (Part 1/2)

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This visual storyboard guide for Figure Drawing Lesson 015 - The Journey to 3/4 view of Human Skull - Part 3 provides step-by-step figure drawing instruction with annotated frames and detailed descriptions.

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You guys, my name is Riven Phoenix and welcome to the Structure of Man, Learned Tribunal

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of the Human Figure from your mind training course.

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Okay, so in the previous lesson, we went through this very miraculous process of understanding

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how the mind was able to just come up with these concepts of basic shapes and was able

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to understand how to put these theories into practice, right?

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So what we want to do now is really like in this process, the mind is going to go through

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a little bit of frustration process because it's probably just questioning, okay, how do

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you really just divide this area, like how do we come up where this is supposed to be,

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like how we were, how were we able to eyeball this area here, right, and what about the

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formulas for the front where we had measured it, right, how come we didn't measure anything

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over here?

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Well, the thing is that you really don't have to, right, because you really wanted to

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use the formulas to get the concept to understand the concept, right, so if you look at this,

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you'll see that where this is, you know that it's just going to be close, right, so here

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it's going to be close, so that's why we can just wing it and where this mouth is, this,

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right, where this is turning, we were able to just wing it and turn it like this, right,

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so it trust your mind that it will be able to do this, so let's take a look and join

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this in 3D one more time and do it a little more bigger and see what we can understand

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from it, so let's say that we're going to right now draw a skull, so here I'm just going

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to draw out, let's say, this ball shape here, right, so here you'll see there I'm being

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just artistic about it now, so I like to do like this oval shape here, you can do like

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a ball shape if you want to, I'm going to do a little oval, it's going to be looking

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in that direction here, so what happens is one side did this ball shape because of all

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the formulas that I've shown you, we know that we can really just divide this guy in half

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in this way and go down just like this, right, so if you take a look at the formulas, right,

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it's really just this line going across in this way over here, right, and then once

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we have this, if we divide this in half, just this ball shape in half like in 3D, let's

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say something like this, we're doing, okay, I'm going to just divide this guy in half

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like this, I already know that from here we already stated that if you look at this,

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you just need to divide it in half and translate it down here, so we can just look at this,

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in this concept here and just say that, okay, well it's about here anyways, right, you have

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to make that judgment, right, so if you wanted to understand, you could say that, okay, well,

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if I take a line from here and divide this in half, it's really just translating it down here

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right, and here we can start to make this idea here for the 3D shape, right, so now we're going

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to make this cross section, right, plus sign on the ball, so here I'm just going to come like this

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over here, make a ball, a line here going down in this direction, so I already know that, okay,

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so from this is the brow and this is just going down in this direction, so I really just need to

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figure out, with the half of this head is going to be, it's obviously going to be here, right,

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it's half here, half here because the eyes have to be in the middle, so this gives me the line

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for the eyes, okay, so if you look at this, with the line for the eyes is right below is,

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below this guy is the jawline anyways, right, this is the jawline over here,

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and really if you divide this in half, that's where it's going to be, so if we, if we

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did this, divided this in half, we know that the jawline is just going to be here, and once we start

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curving, right, we want to really just end up over here and do like a nice curve over here,

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like so, and make this look, start to look like a human head, so how did I know this curve over here?

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Well, let's look at the formula, right, this is the brow area over here, and we know that if we

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just divide this in half, right, we're going to get the bottom for the area for where the nose is

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supposed to be, this guy right here, and we know that if we just divide this in three different

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sections, this is the top of the mat, the bottom of the teeth, and this is where you're going to get

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the chin area, we already stated that right where we get the mouth is basically where we need to

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start turning, anyways, and that's why we were able to do that, right, it was that simple.

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So now, once we have this, we want to understand the forms of this, right, so we know that okay,

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well, this is going to be the brow, and over here, we stated that if we divide this in half,

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we're going to get that area here that we did, but we also know that it's going to go inside,

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right, so you have to now think in 3D, I usually just do this, that that's where the section is

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over here, just like this over here, right, where we did this line, and because the bone is so close

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over here, all we can do is just do this, just make a socket, right, because the nose is going to go

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over this anyways, it's not like you have to come here and do it this way, right, because that is

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the thing with drawing, artists is because when you're drawing a real stick figures, all these little

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details, because of the way the muscles are going to be, they're going to pile up on top of each other,

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and this thing will just end up here anyways, so you can just do the nose here, like just knowing that

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it goes in over here, right, so what about this section over here, how do we determine, how do we

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determine the eyes over here, right, well, if you look at this where this guy is, right, if you take a

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look at this, where this guy is from here, it's going in this, right, it's really just an equal

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division, so usually the key to this is just take a look at these and just do an equal division,

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and from this, right, imagine the, that idea I told you over here, right, where this is over here

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above, where this is over here above, it's just trying to make that square, you know that it's

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just going to be here, right, and then over here we can just wing it and make a line just like this,

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because we know it's going to come down halfway over here anyways, that's why I can just do it

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and on the other side, now this is where you have to use your understanding of this,

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is a look where this is, this is so much inside over here and this is the top, this is the top,

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on the other side it's just going to go on the other side over here, like this, right, so it's

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going to be like that on the other side, just like this, right, so if I shaded this in, it would be

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that way over there, right, so you can see I'm giving it, they've been giving this go in artistic

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look over here, right, and for the, the area for the cheek over here, it was nothing, I know that

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it's going to be here, right, we already went through this, and so I know I'm just, all I have to do

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is really just do this and go back over here somehow in this way, and this is that thing that I'm

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creating over here, going back and just going like this, and this obviously as I stated comes

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this thing here, this thing here comes above, is just putting your ideas together, right, and we know

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that this is going to go here, we know that the jaw really is just going to be like this,

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right, and then you're going to get that line over here, so obviously for this area over here,

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you're going to get this area like this, just like this,

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and you'll get your skull ready to go, pretty much, right, and then we know that this area here

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where this jaw line is, right, we know it has to be on top, so you know that here is going to be

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obviously over here under the nose, you know that the here has to be over here, right, so

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this area here is just going to go around like this and come back down, because we can see

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that over here, it's a little below over here, just like this, right, and then what gives this

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the ability to do that, so now something that you should know, now I'll point out,

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so notice that there's a temple here, temple, right, so you're going to get this over here,

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that's going to go all the way here, so meaning that over here, you can actually

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put this a little bit in if you wanted to, right, and this is where you want to just experiment

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with this and see how you're going to put these, like truncate a few ideas in, just like this

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over here, right, so if we look, we had talked about the flat area, right, this was the flat area,

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so the flat area is really just going to be coming more towards us, see where this line is,

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the flat area is here, to the right this line, it's going to be here, to the right of this line,

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and here in the back, it's going to be nothing more than just this concept,

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okay, so now that we've gotten this, let's clean this off a little bit and see what we can do with this,

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as an illustration, okay, so here I'm just going to use my imagination here, make my own skull

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over here, right, you can see that we don't even have to use much reference for anything because

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we can just do it from the mind, because it just understands what is it that you're trying to do,

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right, because I mean you've seen enough skulls, right, so it'll just use its memory banks and get

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away from symbolism and just start using it, right, so there's a cut over here on the skull,

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so usually I'm just going to make this a little dark over here, just like this, so over here,

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