The Complete Figure Drawing Course by Riven Phoenix: Figure Drawing Lesson 017 - The Journey to 3/4 view of Human Skull - Part 5 - Figure Drawing Storyboard Guide (Part 1/2)

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This visual storyboard guide for Figure Drawing Lesson 017 - The Journey to 3/4 view of Human Skull - Part 5 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 court.

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Okay, so now in the previous lesson, we basically now train the mind really to understand how

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to draw the skull in different angles, right, it gets the concept that we've got it,

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we've trained it to be able to draw the skull in a very easy way, taking all those formulas

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that we've been talking about and we've simplified it, right, so it gets how to draw the human

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head.

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So basically, we were just about to wrap this section up of the human skull.

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So what we want to do is now basically draw out, here I'm just going to draw out some

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skulls that you want to follow along and just draw them out in different angles.

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Because this will just prove to you that what you, what we've been looking at that it makes

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a lot of sense.

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So to do that, what we'll do is just draw them, let's say draw them out a kind of, not

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too big here, just we can do them like a kind of small over here just to show you and

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really just get yourself to get used to these ideas here, right, so here we know that

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we're going to draw the front view really, if I'm going to have it over here, I can just

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elongate it or do whatever I want with it as long as I know where the center is, right,

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so the center line of this here, of the human head is right here.

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This is really just going to be the brow area from here.

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I know that the nose is going to be just about here halfway and I can just divide this

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in three different sections knowing that the mouth is going to be here.

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As I know this, I know that okay well, I mean halfway here, it's really just going to

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come about here in this way.

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See, I don't even, we don't even have to measure this anymore, write the angle because

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we get the concept and from here, this line here, we know that it's just going to start

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to bend in this direction and we're going to get the human's, the jaw line just like

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this over here.

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Once we've done this, basically this is the center line here, we know that the template

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area is going to be that nose, sorry, not the temple, the nose here for the bone, for

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the nose here, if it's going to be here, you're going to get like the opening for the nose

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over here.

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I'm going to be quick about these sketches because we have to do quite a bit here, right,

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and over here we can just make a determination, yeah, well, I want the eye to be just about

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like this, right, I can just eyeball this and make sure that you're getting this right

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over here.

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It's really just by drawing the box, knowing that the ratio is going to be definitely over

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here, right, so this top here is always under the brow area here, right, and then over

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here, I'm just going to draw this over here like this and then we already know that, right,

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we just have to go like this over here and start to really just draw out the opening for

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the eye socket.

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Again, you can do all these different variations of it and try them out, right, so this again

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is going to be a realistic skull here, right, so here we know as soon as we draw the line

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just about where we're here, we know that we're just going to get the cheek bone just like

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this and basically we're done, we do the jaw line over here, we got the mouth already

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over here and it's just going to go like this over here and you got your skull down and

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then you can just put it in a little bit over here, right, so the things you understand

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about this is remember that there's a plane over here, right, where the eye is, it goes

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out over here, this is something that you start to notice, if you look at your face in

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the mirror, start to notice that where your, this here is where your eyebrow goes here,

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there's this plane over here and then there's the cheek bone over here, right, and that's

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it.

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So once we have this down, right, basically we've solved this problem, we got a skull

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down.

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So now let's draw it out, going facing this direction over here, here I'm just going

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to draw a lot like this, going in this direction, here I'm just going to do a line and make

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sure that when you're doing this line for the division that you're doing it correctly

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over here, right, so we're going to make a face a little down over here just like this

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and I know where as soon as I do this I'm just going to get that line here for the head

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over here is going to go here, my jaw is really just going to be over here anyways, right,

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so you can elongate it if you don't like the shape of it.

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So the first thing is to really now get yourself to understand when you're drawing the human

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skull, think of the whole form, start to understand it as a whole form idea, right, once we have

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to, we know that this is the brow, the brow is going to be, this is really going to be

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the center where the eye is going to be from here, I know that the nose is going to be here,

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I know it goes in over here, right, the brow area, I know that the eye socket, see, without

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even measuring we can just do it this way, right, there's really nothing to this now, right,

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because we understand, we know that where the center line is, we know that this line

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here, for the cheek is really just going to go in this direction, like this and we're

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going to pretty much get another skull over here, very easy to do, right, and then we

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can do this over here, like this and we've got that all, right, so here I'm just going

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to clean it up a little bit, because when you're sketching it out, you're going to put

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like these sketch lines down, just tinkering with it and trying to understand the 3D form,

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right, so this is just going to be dark over here, this is going to be the nose, over here,

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like this, and then over here, that ratio is going to be just like this, over here going,

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and then I'll just do the jaw like this, right, and that's really it, right, you can,

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and here we'll just color this in, just like that, so that'll give us another view of the skull,

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so for the side view facing this way, we know it's going to be very simple, so let's do a kind

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of a little different here, let's do more of an oval shape stretching it out, over here,

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I know that this is going to go down, this is really going to be my jaw area, it's going to cut

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over here, just like this, I know that the center of this is going to be here, right, so I'm going

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to get that nudge in here, and then I'm going to get the nose, right, you can just do this,

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because you know it's going to end up from here to here, it's going to be the center of this,

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right, this is going to be a very easy one, and we know that when we have this line here,

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this line here, we can just look at the ratio over here, and basically get the skull,

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just like this, we know that it's going to go over here,

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right, this line over here is going to be like this, and you're basically going to get the line

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for the jaw, right, and it's going to be like this, and that's it, that's give you the idea for

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the skull, remember when you do the ears got to be on top of this here, it's going to the bottom

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of this, right, so here I did pretty fast sketch, right, and if you want to get used to this idea,

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you can just put like a nose over here, just to get yourself to understand, right, how much the

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nose will come out in this way, right, so now we can, let's do a three-fourth view on this side here,

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but notice how fast we're able to do this in about eight minutes, we've done three different drawings

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here, right, and this is also getting into understanding time management and drawing, right,

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so if someone asks you to draw all these skulls, you can tell them well, I mean it's going to take

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about roughly maybe let's say 20 minutes to draw out these skulls, right, and this will be very

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important, let's say if you're sitting in front of our producer for a movie and he's asking you

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to draw stuff, right, you should be able to just do this out very fast and just talk out, okay,

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well I understand, let's say if we were doing some designs here, trying to understand

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like a design here for a creature, so we want to first draw out the skull, so let's say if the producer

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is talking to you on how to do this, right, you'll probably just say you could draw me out some

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skulls, and I just want to look at some, we want to do like these different designs for this

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character here, okay, great, so time management and drawing is also going to play a key role

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in drawing out your drawings, right, so notice that when we draw this out, here I'm just

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did this more sketchy over here, but you get the idea here, right, we don't want to clean that up,

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right, if you wanted to, you can, and feel free to do them in like different media types,

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like in pan and stuff like that, right, so get your mind to understand when you do this division

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that where the mouth is and how much space you have here, over the chin area over here,

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just like this, just like a very simple sketch over here, right, so here we can also now do,

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let's do a side view over here, like this,

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