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Seriously? A three hour class taught by a professional thats actually very helpful FOR FREE? Y'all are saints omg this video was very helpful, I always struggled with heads
I learned more in this video than 3 years at school and 2 at college. It just shows how the right education is key in progressing your skills. What a truly impressive teacher.
The work is obviously important, but with anything, knowing where to start and finish your work properly makes it A: better and B: easier. You can do most anything from scratch with no proper education, yes, but you will get farther faster if you know where the hell you're going and how to get there.
I expected this from my anatomy class in art school. Instead they gave us pictures and told us to copy what we saw, no information whatsoever other than "read these handouts". Not to mention the instructors didn't even show up from time to time and rescheduled lessons to be work periods. Worst waste of money ever. I really should have listened when people said no matter what you do, stay away from art school. Amazing video; informative and refreshing. Steve is a great teacher. Definitely looking into the website and the subscription library.
I went to a precollege program and it was like that, it was awful to me. Not to mention everything was very digital based so they never went through using actual tools like graphite and charcoal. :/ I also know what you mean about teachers not showing up, I went to a small art school where I waited hours at times for my instructor, his excuse was "You can work without me here you know"
yeah, you can invest a small fraction of it just attending life drawing classes, books, and buying a schoolism , nma or cgma subscription. All that money you could save for supplies, a good pc, and life expenses. Only a few institutes give good teaching in the west , most are scams
me too! I can't wait to start! I am not going to finish this video tonight but however I will prob watch a couple more times. Steve is a really good teacher. Very informative
That's because talented people will cement their own techniques. If you look at the world's best artists, they didn't learn technique from others as much as they learned from their own mind. Instead, this class here is to teach those who lack talent and need to learn technique
Eduardo Gomes I'm 17. It's never too late and it's never too early to start (or resume, in my case.), I just wish I took drawing more seriously at your age. Time is on your side, make sure it doesn't go to waste. Thank yourself later.
That's really important. Nowadays people say that "all is art" and forget to improve their techniques. The true and beautiful form of drawing is fading. But whatever is your drawing style, you need to know many drawing techniques ans styles and develop your own. Otherwise you can't be called "master". Thank you, mr. Huston. That's a great video.
I think more people are trying to "master" art now then ever before beacuse of the internet. Most folks who want to learn to draw want to draw realistic humans or atleast learn it so they can draw in other artsyle (like manga).
I like that he's actually using himself as examples. A lot of teaching videos explain and show everything but never give you real examples. Me personally, I learn by seeing. I'm horrible at learning from just explaining or just drawing. I need to see a real world equivilent of what's being tought to really understand. Also, "We are our own best models." only works if you're not overweight. At least as far as drawing bones and muscles goes.
@@rosethebunny8020 Being overweight, health-wise, isn't normal. Every doctor specializing in nutrition would tell you that. And I'm not implying everyone needs to have a beach body or whatever. Art-wise, overweight characteristics give more diversity in character creation.
Nobody references the old masters more than Steve does. He has such a great respect for them. For a guy with his amount of experience, he sounds like a kid in a candy shop when he speaks of the old masters lol.
I am only a half hour in, but I think this is the best video I've ever seen on UA-cam. I'm very happy I found it, and I will be watching all of your other videos. Thank you!
Really considering subscribing after this. Didnt even feel like education, felt deeper like I was learning more than just the content, i was learning not only how to draw a portrait but the essence of drawing portraits.
Everyone: watching to improve their art skills Me: watching the whole video at 3am in the impossible goal of remembering everything only to create a stickman the next morning
I had about 14 tabs open with videos on the same topic and closed all the others after about the 15 minute mark ;). Even after that short a time into the video I notice a dramatic improvement of my understanding of how to draw a face and I feel like we haven't even started yet :D Thank you for this!
yeah, I know what you mean. I am more of a TAB skimmer, though. I close tabs all the time and use the procrastination to weed out less important topics. when something is really important it will come back at some other point, even if I already closed the tab and forgotten all about it. my history will help me find it again. there is more of a system to my madness than just waiting to waste time :D in this instance I closed all the other tabs once this video turned out to be what I was looking for.
Thomas & Marlene Whalen, I totally get this. I even mix OCD with it. once a while something goes wrong and even history does not help, I feel serenity, just like when my hair are cut.
why am I watching this on youtube when I have an NMA membership? If you're willing to put in the work and regularly work on their classes, the nma membership is very worth it!
I love this! I love how easily it is explained. It's like Steve mentioned at the end of the video, it's a lot of information to remember and should be re-watched and practiced. Exactly what I needed!
I've been making so many mistakes, I've always use to put the eye not in the centre but one the 1/3 mark and I've always used circles to represent the skull instead or an egg shape so the it's always to low, this video really helped me alot. Thank you.
I took me 2 years to genuinely watch this video, on and off , practice and actually take down notes for this. Finally finished it, hope I don't take two more years to actually go through the main lessons.
+New Masters Academy Yeah! You should be proud of the awesome work that you are doing. I can't wait to get my own annual subscription! But, for now, thank you for all free content. PS.: NMA is my dream team of art teachers.
You have one video out of hundreds that they have in their collection, if you want access to all their videos you have to pay the same amount as average tuition costs for an art institute. So no, you don't have the internet to tell you the same core art praxes as an online school or actual school does. The internet is GREAT for some things, you can get by without going to school very easily, but to get an edge you'll likely need to pay for the real deal.
We charge $39/month for full access to our entire library of content. There's over 700 hours of content all by master artists and we add a new lesson each week. That's less than tuition to any art school and orders of magnitude less than top art schools. :)
Knowledge can be equally acquired with either the internet or the traditional education system. I think the point here is 'the more you pay/invest, the more you get'.
I am a beginner and I learned so much within the two to three days I spent on this video alone when I have time. I feel so much more confident and I just want to say thank you. I am two hours and fifteen minutes in and I haven't gotten bored once. Thank you again! 😊🤗😚🖌️🎨🙌🤝
This is pure gold. I actually took notes with diagrams, and did all of the drawing exercises. A master class from someone like Steve Huston would be costly and hard to find at a local university, yet it's on here for free. I can only assume that the folks who gave it a thumbs down are either living masters who are sure they could give a better lesson (sarcasm here), or are more impatient than they are serious about their own drawing skills.
New Masters Academy, thank you so much! I have only just finished the 14 time poses and feel I have genuinely jumped massively with progress with this video alone, notes from it and the practice time allotted. Just flicking back through initial heads from the start of the video to this last time pose, I can see a huge difference. Again, thank you!
This helps so much because for a 10 year old for me, I’m learning quite a lot and this is filling my mind for more pieces! It’s truly amazing how he speaks about the techniques! It’s pure life changing 🥳
this was SO helpful, even as a person who's drawn for an upwards amount of 10 years, give or take, I still feel like I've taken little things, little tidbits of information, that I haven't thought about previously from this video.
consulting this in 2023 and I just wanted to say thank you for uploading such WONDERFUL and USEFUL advice! i fell out of good practice with my portrait drawing after dropping out of college and its been a real struggle getting back into it. this video gave me tools that opened a well of potential in my artwork and i cannot express my gratitude enough.
I'm currently attending college for a studio art degree and this is so much more informative and comprehensive than any of the classes I've taken to date -thank you Sir so much, your students sure are lucky to have you!
I’ve been drawing basically my whole life, and have always self taught myself and I consider myself a very good artist in terms of creativity, but my human forms have always been lacking and I’ve finally put aside my pride and have been trying to get more serious about studying drawing and learning how to draw things with correct proportions and proper depth. This man has taught me more in half an hour than I ever thought possible, and it’s already made a significant change in my understanding of how to draw the human head.I’ll be finishing this course as well as checking out all his other videos. Thanks for taking the time to make this and being so thorough!
Me: it lasts 3 hours long i'm not gonna watch it till the end Also me: thanks god for letting this man upload such an amazing video wished it lasted longer
I *wasn't interested in fine art until I saw this video.* You make it so simple and so interesting! I'm now interested in looking at fine art pieces by myself. 😁 Other than that, I have nothing new to say. I can only repeat the well-deserved praises others are giving to this video. Amazing lesson. Possibly the best on UA-cam. ✨👍
Ive always put drawing off because i had the thought i wasnt gonna be good, afraid of making mistakes, and that it was too late. But i realised it's only late if one is dead. I cant wait to start practicing, this video was super helpful thank you.
I come back and watch this lesson once every 1 to 3 years. Every sketchbook I've had from the moment I found this video until the present has has notes on this lesson. I am 4 pages away from finishing this sketchbook and thought to myself "it's been a while since I watched that 3 hour long video on drawing faces!" 😂 I love this video so much I accidentally Pavloved myself to watch it regularly. One day when I'm not poor, I will have the time and money to invest in the full lesson series.
+Brian Platz, thanks! We don't currently have plans for a new release at this time but so far we've put out one or two free lessons per year and we've also got a lot of other free content on our channel.
The concentrated me: "so i can change a character facial forms only using simple forms and shapes, making art easier and relaxing". The lazy me: " E G G S ".
I've been drawing and painting for 20 years and this is the best method for drawing the head I have ever encountered. If you're just starting out (hell, if you've been drawing all your life) take the time to really study this video.
I've tried so many art classes that endlessly frustrated me because no one could explain WHY some faces looked right and others seemed off. Thank you so much!
I recently subscribed to NMA, I have been going through the teachings of Steve Huston and Bill Perkins, both of them are amazing, the composition classes by bill Perkins are like really good, and Steve Huston explains everything not to quote him but in a "simple yet characteristic" manner that you actually remember it, but more importantly you understand it. People generally think art is a god given talent, partially it can be true but the bigger part of art is to understand it, knowing where you go wrong and how to correct it, is a bigger much better part of art. I have learned a lot from these two instructors, and I am hoping that I will learn much much more in the future. Thank you!
Thank you so much! I’m 14 and trying to learn art, I didn’t know where to start and you have no idea how much this helps, when I was younger I had no idea where to start or what to do! I was always following the wrong sources and I gave up so many times, and felt discouraged, I was at the verge of giving up art completely because anatomy annoyed me, I was thinking of starting to get serious again and failed to find the right recourses! This explains so much! I fully understand and I’m very grateful! This is so helpful years of not understanding and this helped god bless
❤️❤️ I had to sub! THANK YOU!!! I am 40 years old and am just now trying to do something with my art. I cannot afford Art school, so I am gathering what I can from videos and I work along with them. This video is perfect! Thank you for taking the time to do this for us. You don’t know how appreciated it is! ❤️❤️
I’ve been drawing my whole life but I’m 14 and starting to get pretty serious about it and I have even start painting so I want to make my work the best I can in my life.
Fatih0_o thank you. There’s more than 159 hours of Steve’s instruction on our site: nma.art . We also have a new figure painting course with Steve coming out soon. 👍🏼
I'd never noticed the egg shape of the skull. That probably explains why, when I draw heads and faces from my imagination, I often have to readjust the skull shape. thanks.
We wanted to give something to the art community but also show everyone what our website has to offer. We would love to see your work on our community forums: www.nma.art/forums/ You don't have to be an active subscriber to make an account.
I HIGHLY recommend drawing along! Doing drawing with any tutorial helps sooooo much and practicing with this class is a great idea considering this class is amazing on its own.
This was such a great lesson, and I really thank you with all my heart!!! It really shows what an excellent teacher you are! Thank you so much for your generosity, and it's just makes me so happy to know that there are still people like you in this world! - Patrizia
I'm in an Arts high school and i'm signed up for Orchestra. My school offers visual arts as well as other arts and i was a bit bummed out when i realized i couldn't do both music and art. I love drawing the human body. This video has gave me a way to continue learning and bettering my art away from school thank you so much. I plan on taking Visual Arts either my sophomore or junior year.
Thanks for the upload! It's the most detailed and understandable art lesson I've found online so far. Each section of this tutorial was well timed, traceable and fully explained. I scoured your website. If all the learning content is so comprehensive and tangible, it's a treasure chest for all artists. Unfortunately I can not afford that despite good price-performance ratio. Keep up the good work!
How amazing to be able to learn from my own home. This has filled in many gaps in my knowledge. I’ve been struggling with Loomi but this is sooo much easier. Thank you for your generous offering of skills.
I have just discovered Steve Hustons 3hr long treasure, I love his stlye of teaching it ticks all the boxes for the way my brain works. haha. Thanks very much for giving us this opertunity, I shall definately be looking into taking out some form of membership. Can't wait to put his exercises into practice then go to the next stage. 👍👍😊😊
Him explaining how different your drawing can look based on the skill construction lines or even body. Like egg shape vs chizzled looks. Is soo clear and gives different results. This man is so clear in his teaching 🤯
Deebo Nash thanks for saying so. As you said there is no one or even a best way to draw the head. It depends on your requirements and skill level. We have hundreds hours of content on draw drawing and painting on our website. Https://nma.art
They don't teach drawing fundamentals in Irish art schools. The knowledge I've just obtained is priceless and so liberating for my artistic ideas, that have been constantly stunted by my lack of solid skill set. Thank you so much!
Viv Arts, based on what people have been telling us for the last several years, your experience is Ireland is mirrored by the rest of the world. Art fundamentals are very rarely taught in schools anymore.
@@NewMastersAcademyorgNMA I know for a fact that they still teach proper art fundamentals in Russian art schools. I sometimes come across simply phenomenal contemporary Russian draftsmen and painters on Instagram. As well as Chinese by the way.
@@NewMastersAcademyorgNMA I mean specialty schools, but they also teach solid fundamentals at children's art schools... One of the Russian art teachers I follow on instagram - lizalegina, sometimes posts studies made by her 10-13-year-old pupils and oh boy those are art gallery level works in terms of technical excellence and artistic vision. The following link demonstrates analysis of drawings (both successful and those with common mistakes) produced at the entrance examinations to places like the Repin Academ, the Stieglitz Academy, etc. ua-cam.com/video/J4AYH9AR70o/v-deo.html
Holy shit, i came into this thinking this was just another tutorial but this is actually HELPFUL???!!!! 100/10 WOULD RECOMMEND, DID RECOMMEND, AND CONTINUE TO RECOMMEND
Thank u so much for bringing together so many of the methods of drawing heads together in one long and helpful session! I finally realised we are allowed to pull various bits from different methods in order to make your own, by following a few basic rules - and the rest is practice practice, practice! Thank u so much, look forward to binging' your other content! Many many thanks!!❤
This is just wonderful. I'm currently working with Steve's book on anatomy, and it's the best thing I've found on the subject, much more intuitive than Loomis for me. Steve's art is beautiful; you should check it out if you haven't seen it.
MrJimzovich awesome to hear. Are you a member at NMA.art? Many of the images and examples in that book were pulled from our subscription library videos
People like him are the best teachers! His instructions are so simple and clear, so it turns something that's generally complex and intimidating into one easy step. He's like the Bob Ross of portraits! 😂
great!!! I have painted for years and it is something natural in me. I never went to an art school, just have taken three classes in my life. But now with this video I am going ahead right on with my paintings. I am painting all the time in different mediums, but this is a great teaching. Thank you so much, I wish I could go to your school. That would have been my dream. I am 69 years of age and have no money, but painting is my passion. I'll keep practicing and with your teachings I will do much better.
AMAZING! Totally didn't expect the timed assignment in the end, freaked out a little bit :) :) But i was actually amazed at my own sketches. This lesson is beyond helpful! Going over to NMA to subscribe right now!! Thank you!!
Beautiful. Watching the modern day masters draw and create inspire me even further and help me realize how much more I need to do, from how gently he holds his material to breaking everything down step-by-step and not rushing
I've always watched drawning tutorials and stuff like this but never, I said NEVER, found this qualitty of content. I mean, I just have no words to describe how much I learned at freacking 36 minutes of video. Thank you very much!
i have been drawing for 11 years so far i am trying to learn how to draw realistic and so far i have been drawing realistic flowers to understand shading
I never comment on UA-cam videos but I just had to today and I am only roughly like 25-30 minutes in and I have never been able to get the right outlines for heads in any other video but within this short period I have been able to exceed anything I have been able to do to date, Thankyou! This helped me so much😁
This man makes this look so easy, he is an awesome mentor would love to take a class from him. Could watch this over and over as the I would have loved to have had these in depth insructions before my last portrait painting.
This guy is awesome I really got engaged at the start of the three spheres part, then the mask shape made sense. Very very helpful. This is a person that is truely wanting us to get this. There is not one of us that is not going to grow from this video. Well done sir.
A very relaxing video, Steve takes the time necessary to illustrate difficult ideas and concepts and doesn't rush through it. Very well done and thank you for your generosity.
Want to learn with our friendly and helpful community? Join us on Discord! discord.gg/B44hKq Thank you for all of the kind words and positive feedback! This free lesson is just a tiny sample of what we have on our website: nma.art to show you the quality and depth of our learning platform. New Masters Academy is an affordable online alternative to art school. For thousands of hours of instruction like this and thousands of art reference images and 3d models check out our website!
Seriously? A three hour class taught by a professional thats actually very helpful FOR FREE? Y'all are saints omg this video was very helpful, I always struggled with heads
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Strugle are you kidding me? I can't even draw the head properly.....
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Hes doing gods work
I learned more in this video than 3 years at school and 2 at college. It just shows how the right education is key in progressing your skills. What a truly impressive teacher.
i subscribed to their site and there's some really great stuff there too.
Matt Hodkin nah the right education is a sliver of it. You gotta put the work in mate. Stop being fucking lazy.
The work is obviously important, but with anything, knowing where to start and finish your work properly makes it A: better and B: easier. You can do most anything from scratch with no proper education, yes, but you will get farther faster if you know where the hell you're going and how to get there.
Dont blame the school blame the teacher! What if he was teaching in your school ?
Mastering fine art requires hard work, hundreds of hours of practice, AND great instruction. We can only help with the third part. 👍🏼 nma.art
I expected this from my anatomy class in art school. Instead they gave us pictures and told us to copy what we saw, no information whatsoever other than "read these handouts". Not to mention the instructors didn't even show up from time to time and rescheduled lessons to be work periods. Worst waste of money ever. I really should have listened when people said no matter what you do, stay away from art school.
Amazing video; informative and refreshing. Steve is a great teacher. Definitely looking into the website and the subscription library.
Can confirm. Went to art school and drawing classes. Quick Demonstration followed by follow these 'hand-outs.'
I went to a precollege program and it was like that, it was awful to me. Not to mention everything was very digital based so they never went through using actual tools like graphite and charcoal. :/ I also know what you mean about teachers not showing up, I went to a small art school where I waited hours at times for my instructor, his excuse was "You can work without me here you know"
yeah, you can invest a small fraction of it just attending life drawing classes, books, and buying a schoolism , nma or cgma subscription. All that money you could save for supplies, a good pc, and life expenses. Only a few institutes give good teaching in the west , most are scams
me too! I can't wait to start! I am not going to finish this video tonight but however I will prob watch a couple more times. Steve is a really good teacher. Very informative
That's because talented people will cement their own techniques. If you look at the world's best artists, they didn't learn technique from others as much as they learned from their own mind. Instead, this class here is to teach those who lack talent and need to learn technique
Actually being taught by someone who knows what they’re talking about gives me a good feeling. My art teacher is very clueless💀
I'm 29 and I just decided to start seriously drawing for the first time really in my life.
+keggerous I'm almost 27 and doing the same thing!
I am not alone haha that's great to hear
Cool !!! I am 26 and I also decided to start seriously drawing :)
i just started 2 weeks ago, im 51.
Eduardo Gomes I'm 17. It's never too late and it's never too early to start (or resume, in my case.), I just wish I took drawing more seriously at your age. Time is on your side, make sure it doesn't go to waste. Thank yourself later.
That's really important. Nowadays people say that "all is art" and forget to improve their techniques. The true and beautiful form of drawing is fading. But whatever is your drawing style, you need to know many drawing techniques ans styles and develop your own. Otherwise you can't be called "master". Thank you, mr. Huston. That's a great video.
I think more people are trying to "master" art now then ever before beacuse of the internet. Most folks who want to learn to draw want to draw realistic humans or atleast learn it so they can draw in other artsyle (like manga).
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I like that he's actually using himself as examples. A lot of teaching videos explain and show everything but never give you real examples. Me personally, I learn by seeing. I'm horrible at learning from just explaining or just drawing. I need to see a real world equivilent of what's being tought to really understand.
Also, "We are our own best models." only works if you're not overweight. At least as far as drawing bones and muscles goes.
FJack the f.
you can draw overweight figures too and help yourself, being overweight is normal and natural in real life so thats okay.
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@@rosethebunny8020 That's why OP specified "bones and muscles."
@@rosethebunny8020 Being overweight, health-wise, isn't normal. Every doctor specializing in nutrition would tell you that. And I'm not implying everyone needs to have a beach body or whatever. Art-wise, overweight characteristics give more diversity in character creation.
Nobody references the old masters more than Steve does. He has such a great respect for them. For a guy with his amount of experience, he sounds like a kid in a candy shop when he speaks of the old masters lol.
I am only a half hour in, but I think this is the best video I've ever seen on UA-cam. I'm very happy I found it, and I will be watching all of your other videos. Thank you!
Thanks!
@@NewMastersAcademyorgNMA bhh t.
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Really considering subscribing after this. Didnt even feel like education, felt deeper like I was learning more than just the content, i was learning not only how to draw a portrait but the essence of drawing portraits.
indeed
Thanks for saying so, Breanna. A lot of work goes into these videos. We hope to see you on our website: nma.art
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You do NOT know how much this helped me. 20 minutes in and all my rookie/self-taught mistakes are corrected.
Glad it was useful. There's 700+ hours of content just like this on our website. ;) www.newmastersacademy.org
Correction: 950+ hours
You really are a legend :0
Wow this video is super good I like 2 mins in made me realise the egg shape and how he used the guidelines.
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Everyone: watching to improve their art skills
Me: watching the whole video at 3am in the impossible goal of remembering everything only to create a stickman the next morning
fish in a cup watch it through, then tomorrow do it again but this time get a sketchbook and draw along. 👍🏼
same but its 5am haha
12:55-3:55😂😂😂😂
I'm watching at 3am rn lol
Literally me right now wow
"always nice as an artists to know witch ways to screw up" great words of wisdom.
Garrett Wash 1. Correct your grammar or you will never get a job
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Mallantha Caflorin yeah exactly. It's spelling not grammar
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@red x17 that's not grammar that's spelling wOOoOoOOosh
I woke up and this is what was playing on my phone,,, still an artist even in my sleep
I had about 14 tabs open with videos on the same topic and closed all the others after about the 15 minute mark ;). Even after that short a time into the video I notice a dramatic improvement of my understanding of how to draw a face and I feel like we haven't even started yet :D Thank you for this!
yeah, I know what you mean. I am more of a TAB skimmer, though. I close tabs all the time and use the procrastination to weed out less important topics. when something is really important it will come back at some other point, even if I already closed the tab and forgotten all about it. my history will help me find it again. there is more of a system to my madness than just waiting to waste time :D
in this instance I closed all the other tabs once this video turned out to be what I was looking for.
Thomas & Marlene Whalen, I totally get this. I even mix OCD with it. once a while something goes wrong and even history does not help, I feel serenity, just like when my hair are cut.
I'm reading this comment at the 15 mark
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This comment is already five years old. Did you improve? Did you reach the level you intended?
why am I watching this on youtube when I have an NMA membership?
If you're willing to put in the work and regularly work on their classes, the nma membership is very worth it!
And not a single ad...
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@Seeaandh We love you too!
“Perfectly balanced like all things should be”
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11 minutes in and my self taught mistakes are mostly corrected lol this is a great video
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Ryan McGale yeah this man is an art god. He's so helpful, I want him to be my art teacher.
I love this! I love how easily it is explained. It's like Steve mentioned at the end of the video, it's a lot of information to remember and should be re-watched and practiced. Exactly what I needed!
I've been making so many mistakes, I've always use to put the eye not in the centre but one the 1/3 mark and I've always used circles to represent the skull instead or an egg shape so the it's always to low, this video really helped me alot. Thank you.
Skadoosh Meh you weren't teaching yourself well enough...
I took me 2 years to genuinely watch this video, on and off , practice and actually take down notes for this. Finally finished it, hope I don't take two more years to actually go through the main lessons.
Feel free to join us on Discord. The community is free, lit, and super supportive: discord.gg/nma
Perfect video, I love how you aren't rushing things.
+Hytherdel, thank you. :)
+New Masters Academy Yeah! You should be proud of the awesome work that you are doing. I can't wait to get my own annual subscription! But, for now, thank you for all free content.
PS.: NMA is my dream team of art teachers.
+Cobalto Sessenta I have a membership and it is amazing! Worth every penny!
+Cobalto Sessenta I have a membership and it is amazing! Worth every penny!
I belive in you! They deserve a lot of hugs!
The growth after just the video was massive. Thanks for uploading some parts for free! Really appreciate it!
Fuck college I have internet !
Exactly :)
You have one video out of hundreds that they have in their collection, if you want access to all their videos you have to pay the same amount as average tuition costs for an art institute. So no, you don't have the internet to tell you the same core art praxes as an online school or actual school does. The internet is GREAT for some things, you can get by without going to school very easily, but to get an edge you'll likely need to pay for the real deal.
We charge $39/month for full access to our entire library of content. There's over 700 hours of content all by master artists and we add a new lesson each week. That's less than tuition to any art school and orders of magnitude less than top art schools. :)
Knowledge can be equally acquired with either the internet or the traditional education system. I think the point here is 'the more you pay/invest, the more you get'.
A student is one with a desire and eagerness to learn, not necessarily someone who is enrolled in college.
I am a beginner and I learned so much within the two to three days I spent on this video alone when I have time. I feel so much more confident and I just want to say thank you. I am two hours and fifteen minutes in and I haven't gotten bored once. Thank you again! 😊🤗😚🖌️🎨🙌🤝
This is pure gold. I actually took notes with diagrams, and did all of the drawing exercises. A master class from someone like Steve Huston would be costly and hard to find at a local university, yet it's on here for free. I can only assume that the folks who gave it a thumbs down are either living masters who are sure they could give a better lesson (sarcasm here), or are more impatient than they are serious about their own drawing skills.
Surely they just accidentally hit the wrong button!
@@gnuPirate 5.4 people. that's insanely too much. like wth, is it gonna hurt someone to teach this way? self centered idiots
steve is very easy to listen to, with a very smooth voice and has a very straight forward way of explaining everything, excellent lesson
New Masters Academy, thank you so much! I have only just finished the 14 time poses and feel I have genuinely jumped massively with progress with this video alone, notes from it and the practice time allotted. Just flicking back through initial heads from the start of the video to this last time pose, I can see a huge difference.
Again, thank you!
We love to hear this!
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In 30 minutes you thought me more than my art teacher ever could in 4 years because she didn’t think i could do art, Thank you
This helps so much because for a 10 year old for me, I’m learning quite a lot and this is filling my mind for more pieces! It’s truly amazing how he speaks about the techniques! It’s pure life changing 🥳
Well... it's been 3 years. You get good yet?
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Real please answer
The sail boat method is no joke, miraculous. Works a lot quicker than the loomis method, captures the gesture, and it's more efficient to.
i've been feeling really down lately..thanks to you guys, this made me quite the happy camper.. thanky you! thank you! thaaank you!
Hi are you okay now??
Love LOVE this man. Thank you New Masters.
this was SO helpful, even as a person who's drawn for an upwards amount of 10 years, give or take, I still feel like I've taken little things, little tidbits of information, that I haven't thought about previously from this video.
consulting this in 2023 and I just wanted to say thank you for uploading such WONDERFUL and USEFUL advice! i fell out of good practice with my portrait drawing after dropping out of college and its been a real struggle getting back into it. this video gave me tools that opened a well of potential in my artwork and i cannot express my gratitude enough.
I appreciate you time. This was very informative and helpful in many ways. Thank you.
20 minutes into this video and it taught me so much than all the art videos in youtube combined.
I'm currently attending college for a studio art degree and this is so much more informative and comprehensive than any of the classes I've taken to date -thank you Sir so much, your students sure are lucky to have you!
for the love of it all thank you for saying so. Have you been to our website yet?
@@NewMastersAcademyorgNMA no, I have not.
I’ve been drawing basically my whole life, and have always self taught myself and I consider myself a very good artist in terms of creativity, but my human forms have always been lacking and I’ve finally put aside my pride and have been trying to get more serious about studying drawing and learning how to draw things with correct proportions and proper depth.
This man has taught me more in half an hour than I ever thought possible, and it’s already made a significant change in my understanding of how to draw the human head.I’ll be finishing this course as well as checking out all his other videos.
Thanks for taking the time to make this and being so thorough!
Me: it lasts 3 hours long i'm not gonna watch it till the end
Also me: thanks god for letting this man upload such an amazing video wished it lasted longer
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Same thought it was one of those videos that have useless amount of commentary
I love love love long videos 😅I will watch a 15 hour long video over and over
I *wasn't interested in fine art until I saw this video.* You make it so simple and so interesting! I'm now interested in looking at fine art pieces by myself. 😁 Other than that, I have nothing new to say. I can only repeat the well-deserved praises others are giving to this video. Amazing lesson. Possibly the best on UA-cam. ✨👍
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Ive always put drawing off because i had the thought i wasnt gonna be good, afraid of making mistakes, and that it was too late. But i realised it's only late if one is dead. I cant wait to start practicing, this video was super helpful thank you.
"it's only late if one is dead"
Words to live by.
I come back and watch this lesson once every 1 to 3 years.
Every sketchbook I've had from the moment I found this video until the present has has notes on this lesson. I am 4 pages away from finishing this sketchbook and thought to myself "it's been a while since I watched that 3 hour long video on drawing faces!" 😂 I love this video so much I accidentally Pavloved myself to watch it regularly.
One day when I'm not poor, I will have the time and money to invest in the full lesson series.
We need more of these long-form free videos. This is so good!
+Brian Platz, thanks! We don't currently have plans for a new release at this time but so far we've put out one or two free lessons per year and we've also got a lot of other free content on our channel.
+Brian Platz moreee
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, this is supposed to be a sample of what you can find at www.newmastersacademy.org. We're not planning more releases on UA-cam for awhile.
I've learned some valuable stuff with just that sample video.
I have been thoroughly convinced and won't mind subscribing for at least a few months
The concentrated me: "so i can change a character facial forms only using simple forms and shapes, making art easier and relaxing".
The lazy me: " E G G S ".
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I've been drawing and painting for 20 years and this is the best method for drawing the head I have ever encountered. If you're just starting out (hell, if you've been drawing all your life) take the time to really study this video.
I'm an artist and I'm really good at art but this taught me a lot of good techniques. Very useful.
Steve Huston makes masters look like amateurs. What an amazing artist. Thank you so much for posting!
I've tried so many art classes that endlessly frustrated me because no one could explain WHY some faces looked right and others seemed off. Thank you so much!
I recently subscribed to NMA, I have been going through the teachings of Steve Huston and Bill Perkins, both of them are amazing, the composition classes by bill Perkins are like really good, and Steve Huston explains everything not to quote him but in a "simple yet characteristic" manner that you actually remember it, but more importantly you understand it. People generally think art is a god given talent, partially it can be true but the bigger part of art is to understand it, knowing where you go wrong and how to correct it, is a bigger much better part of art. I have learned a lot from these two instructors, and I am hoping that I will learn much much more in the future. Thank you!
Tanisha Aggarwal we are glad you’re getting something out of our program. Please keep up the hard work! 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you so much! I’m 14 and trying to learn art, I didn’t know where to start and you have no idea how much this helps, when I was younger I had no idea where to start or what to do! I was always following the wrong sources and I gave up so many times, and felt discouraged, I was at the verge of giving up art completely because anatomy annoyed me, I was thinking of starting to get serious again and failed to find the right recourses! This explains so much! I fully understand and I’m very grateful! This is so helpful years of not understanding and this helped god bless
❤️❤️ I had to sub! THANK YOU!!! I am 40 years old and am just now trying to do something with my art. I cannot afford Art school, so I am gathering what I can from videos and I work along with them. This video is perfect! Thank you for taking the time to do this for us. You don’t know how appreciated it is! ❤️❤️
This is amazing. Thank you for all this knowledge for free.
so much value!!! love it
I’ve been drawing my whole life but I’m 14 and starting to get pretty serious about it and I have even start painting so I want to make my work the best I can in my life.
I'm hooked! I keeping back to the beginning, and disappearing for hours. Thank you.
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mr Huston is real master i wish i take his real life courses but now this videos helps lot thanks @New Masters Academy
Fatih0_o thank you. There’s more than 159 hours of Steve’s instruction on our site: nma.art . We also have a new figure painting course with Steve coming out soon. 👍🏼
I'd never noticed the egg shape of the skull. That probably explains why, when I draw heads and faces from my imagination, I often have to readjust the skull shape. thanks.
Nevets t. Smith there’s a developmental reason for the similarity. Both the egg 🥚 and the skull have to pass through the pelvic floor during birth.
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I understand you
@@NewMastersAcademyorgNMA woahhhhhhhhh
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This man is an absolute genius! This is making absolute sense to me. He explains it so simply!
I need to try your subscription service. I have to get my art skills on a professional level and this seems like a great way to do that.
No arguments here. :)
this is by far the most comprehensive and helpful video on the topic I've ever seen
Wow! I went to college for this and it’s a shame you have more in your video than those professors who taught me 4 yrs! Thank you 🙏🏼 god bless
This is extremely helpful, 3 hours long and has NO ads. The least we can do is give it a like. I mean, this kind of quality for free??? damn. Thanks!
We wanted to give something to the art community but also show everyone what our website has to offer. We would love to see your work on our community forums: www.nma.art/forums/ You don't have to be an active subscriber to make an account.
Is he using a sharpie??? O-O hardcore
Lol
I HIGHLY recommend drawing along! Doing drawing with any tutorial helps sooooo much and practicing with this class is a great idea considering this class is amazing on its own.
This was such a great lesson, and I really thank you with all my heart!!! It really shows what an excellent teacher you are! Thank you so much for your generosity, and it's just makes me so happy to know that there are still people like you in this world! - Patrizia
I'm in an Arts high school and i'm signed up for Orchestra. My school offers visual arts as well as other arts and i was a bit bummed out when i realized i couldn't do both music and art. I love drawing the human body. This video has gave me a way to continue learning and bettering my art away from school thank you so much. I plan on taking Visual Arts either my sophomore or junior year.
Chibimoon143 that’s great to hear! Visually arts are a very rewarding career or even hobby! Have you been to our website yet?
@@NewMastersAcademyorgNMA I'm on it right now!
Thanks for the upload! It's the most detailed and understandable art lesson I've found online so far. Each section of this tutorial was well timed, traceable and fully explained. I scoured your website. If all the learning content is so comprehensive and tangible, it's a treasure chest for all artists. Unfortunately I can not afford that despite good price-performance ratio. Keep up the good work!
How amazing to be able to learn from my own home. This has filled in many gaps in my knowledge. I’ve been struggling with Loomi but this is sooo much easier. Thank you for your generous offering of skills.
Sarah Hill you're very welcome. We don't teach Loomis’ method but we offer much more head drawing content on our website: https//nma.art
I have just discovered Steve Hustons 3hr long treasure, I love his stlye of teaching it ticks all the boxes for the way my brain works. haha. Thanks very much for giving us this opertunity, I shall definately be looking into taking out some form of membership. Can't wait to put his exercises into practice then go to the next stage. 👍👍😊😊
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Him explaining how different your drawing can look based on the skill construction lines or even body. Like egg shape vs chizzled looks. Is soo clear and gives different results.
This man is so clear in his teaching 🤯
Deebo Nash thanks for saying so. As you said there is no one or even a best way to draw the head. It depends on your requirements and skill level. We have hundreds hours of content on draw drawing and painting on our website. Https://nma.art
38:39 - back
1:02:22 - Ears (head rotation)
1:15:23 - Master drawings
They don't teach drawing fundamentals in Irish art schools. The knowledge I've just obtained is priceless and so liberating for my artistic ideas, that have been constantly stunted by my lack of solid skill set. Thank you so much!
Viv Arts, based on what people have been telling us for the last several years, your experience is Ireland is mirrored by the rest of the world. Art fundamentals are very rarely taught in schools anymore.
@@NewMastersAcademyorgNMA I know for a fact that they still teach proper art fundamentals in Russian art schools. I sometimes come across simply phenomenal contemporary Russian draftsmen and painters on Instagram. As well as Chinese by the way.
Do you mean in primary, secondary, university art programs or in specialty schools like the Repin Academy?
Speaking of Russian, have you seen this? ua-cam.com/video/llejKzTaysk/v-deo.html
@@NewMastersAcademyorgNMA I mean specialty schools, but they also teach solid fundamentals at children's art schools... One of the Russian art teachers I follow on instagram - lizalegina, sometimes posts studies made by her 10-13-year-old pupils and oh boy those are art gallery level works in terms of technical excellence and artistic vision. The following link demonstrates analysis of drawings (both successful and those with common mistakes) produced at the entrance examinations to places like the Repin Academ, the Stieglitz Academy, etc. ua-cam.com/video/J4AYH9AR70o/v-deo.html
Proko brought me here ❤️ If you guys haven’t seen the interview with Mr. Huston, do yourself a favor!
Seriously! Great interview
Holy shit, i came into this thinking this was just another tutorial but this is actually HELPFUL???!!!! 100/10 WOULD RECOMMEND, DID RECOMMEND, AND CONTINUE TO RECOMMEND
Maravilhoso! Adorei a aula, obrigada!
Wonderful! I love this lesson, thank you!
Thank u so much for bringing together so many of the methods of drawing heads together in one long and helpful session! I finally realised we are allowed to pull various bits from different methods in order to make your own, by following a few basic rules - and the rest is practice practice, practice! Thank u so much, look forward to binging' your other content! Many many thanks!!❤
Hello im from the future and your amazing!
1:58:45 (this is to help me later when i will keep watching)
watched many videos they didn't work but this works perfectly for me
This is just wonderful. I'm currently working with Steve's book on anatomy, and it's the best thing I've found on the subject, much more intuitive than Loomis for me. Steve's art is beautiful; you should check it out if you haven't seen it.
MrJimzovich awesome to hear. Are you a member at NMA.art? Many of the images and examples in that book were pulled from our subscription library videos
Not a member yet, but I'll certainly think about it when I'm better off.
People like him are the best teachers! His instructions are so simple and clear, so it turns something that's generally complex and intimidating into one easy step. He's like the Bob Ross of portraits! 😂
Steve, you're awesome, sir. Love your theory. 👍👌
great!!! I have painted for years and it is something natural in me. I never went to an art school, just have taken three classes in my life. But now with this video I am going ahead right on with my paintings. I am painting all the time in different mediums, but this is a great teaching. Thank you so much, I wish I could go to your school. That would have been my dream. I am 69 years of age and have no money, but painting is my passion. I'll keep practicing and with your teachings I will do much better.
This is what I was looking for.. thank you so much! God bless!
I am 65 & learning so much to help my art directions. Loved his interview with Proko also.
AMAZING! Totally didn't expect the timed assignment in the end, freaked out a little bit :) :) But i was actually amazed at my own sketches. This lesson is beyond helpful! Going over to NMA to subscribe right now!! Thank you!!
Beautiful. Watching the modern day masters draw and create inspire me even further and help me realize how much more I need to do, from how gently he holds his material to breaking everything down step-by-step and not rushing
The first 40min are already more helpfull than my 4 years of art school
NCTea thanks for saying so. Our website is full of thousands of hours of training like this. During the crisis our drawing fundamentals course is free
Jaemin I can see you
I've always watched drawning tutorials and stuff like this but never, I said NEVER, found this qualitty of content. I mean, I just have no words to describe how much I learned at freacking 36 minutes of video. Thank you very much!
i have been drawing for 11 years so far i am trying to learn how to draw realistic and so far i have been drawing realistic flowers to understand shading
I never comment on UA-cam videos but I just had to today and I am only roughly like 25-30 minutes in and I have never been able to get the right outlines for heads in any other video but within this short period I have been able to exceed anything I have been able to do to date, Thankyou! This helped me so much😁
This was incredibly helpful, Thanks
This man makes this look so easy, he is an awesome mentor would love to take a class from him. Could watch this over and over as the I would have loved to have had these in depth insructions before my last portrait painting.
You have help me see different shapes a lot easier. Thanks
How in-depth do you want your knowledge? how skilful a presenter? Masterful.
My dad told me to come and watch this because i like to draw-
I'd like to say. I have no regrets
Smart dad! Share your progress with us in our free community forums: www.nma.art/forums/
This guy is awesome I really got engaged at the start of the three spheres part, then the mask shape made sense. Very very helpful. This is a person that is truely wanting us to get this. There is not one of us that is not going to grow from this video. Well done sir.
This class actually made me realize a lot of mistakes i was doing
A very relaxing video, Steve takes the time necessary to illustrate difficult ideas and concepts and doesn't rush through it. Very well done and thank you for your generosity.
i learnt more in 11 minutes than i have in like 3 years
Very helpful! I wish I had found it sooner!.