close your eyes and touch your head like crazy for a while. Bam instant knowledge aquired. Also sometimes i imagine myself from a different point of view. Try to ghost around yourself even imagine yourself as a different person and how youd look like.
Hugh Mungus its hard here if u want go to a government college private colleges take easily here but u still have to show ur postfolio n maybe a test they accept most ppl tho but its expensive
One of my favorite things about your channel is the unconventional tools you’ve discovered to solve problems. The lightning bolt, the spirals, this. You use a lot of cool techniques that aren’t discussed anywhere else that I’ve seen, whereas plenty of people explain methods by loomis, bridgeman, Reilly, etc
For anyone confused about the "major" and "minor" axis portion: The major axis is the longest possible line you can make within the ellipses and the minor is the smallest.
Not quite, both axis are in the middle of the ellipse, they intersect in the center and the major axis is the longer line and the minor axis is the smaller line but the minor axis isn't just the shortest line anywhere in the ellipse
Holy crap, I'm sketching while watching this and it helps so much. But I think first you need to have a decent understanding of anatomy or it won't fully make sense.
Your tutorials just resonate so well with me. I've been drawing for 3ish years and have stagnated and all your help has taught me things I never knew and I think will help me grow a lot. Thank you!
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wow this is insane, my drawings have always been so flat, which has really bothered me. i didn't know what to search to fix this, so i'm so glad i came across this video.
Thank you so much! Your technique has changed my way of thinking things immediately. I've been trying to learn drawing for a while now, but didn't go well when I actually try to draw something. That's until I saw this video, then suddenly everything I read from textbooks start to make sense. I always struggle to get lighting and shadows correct without actually looking at the object, but with your technique, it's so much easier to imagine how the surfaces work just in my head. And the coolest thing is that i t really works not just for faces, but almost everything with complex surface divisions.
This is the best video for introducing how to understand the planes of the face I've found. Everything else just goes to expert mode expecting full knowledge of the skull and a calarts degree... or is just a ultra simple "draw a circle with a line through it" tutorial. This is a nice bridge, thanks man!
I L-L-L-Love this video! It's so useful in practice. It's nice to watch someone make step by step video where we can watch them draw, but this video brings understanding. Typical How-To videos generally make people copy the artist to keep up and to try their style. This video allows you to start improving your own art almost immediately. This video needs more views!
wow I watched this video in about one year ago and I didn’t understand how this could be helpful but right now I’m struggling with light and value and this is significantly helping me. just wow.
Sycra...absolute master class!!! This is brilliant...for an untrained artist, this is the sort of instructive video that keeps one interested.This subject has eluded me, but you just made me better...THANK YOU!!!
I love that you use a pretty similar approach to how I approach my 3D sculpting to translate position, proportions and approaches when constrained to 2D. I do automatically as well, but just hadn't thought of explaining it this way. Nicely handled and deftly shared as usual!
when I draw faces, they tend to look flat, specially when I'm drawing frontal. now, those ellipses really shows the form, very well done Sycra. thank you!
the flappy thing protruding as if to protect the auditory canals is called the tragus. we use it a lot when we set patients to receive head and brain radiation. love your teaching. ellipse theory makes good sense to me. thanks
No way! I'm doing Andrew Loomis's Drawing the head and hands, and I've been memorizing the planes for the past few days but when I tried to actually add lights and shadows to them, I struggled because the head just didn't make a lot of sense.. THANK YOU SYCRA! Never stop teaching!
Same! The "plane heads" in the heads & hands Loomis book were very confusing to me... Same as Sycra, I have an affinity for organic forms, and this method is coming much more naturally to me!! Thanks Sycra!
I just drew a face without even thinking about it using this technique thank you and it does map the planes after you get going and i did just what you said to do i kept making the circles and stuff and then i turned and looked at a head with the planes it matches it just not as ridgid thank you so much this helped so much
mark's drawing tutorials covers elipses and describing form really well, in his "drawing skills for industrial designer" if im not mistaken. he also has a game that helps you practice elipses and circles.
Wow, what a funny thing. Recently I started doing this on my own, trying to find a way to make faces easier for me and here this video came outta nowhere. Thank you for expanding it and making it clearer for me!
Really nice one, I think I like this method. That second oval trick makes it a lot more intuitive to size and place facial features. Thanks for sharing!
cool way of getting more inviled with our art...it touches our imagination to go foreward and in dept...very nice to let us know this sort of knowledge..thk u
I recently watched the show Arcane and I’m just blow away by the gorgeous art style so now I’m trying to be better at drawing. This vid is super helpful!
This was so helpful. Thank you. I've been reading Bridgeman's book on drawing the head and hands but I've been having so much trouble with this. Really appreciate all the tutorials.
Thank you, I still have to try this out but I feel like using elipses would for me work better than the usual boxes. Once again, thank you, your work is priceless.
Thanks a lot for those advices. It's really helpful because I had a bit of trouble to shadow faces properly. I had it figure it out for some parts but the "ellipse thing" will make it much easier :D
I'd been trying to use the Loomis method to draw faces and not really enjoying my results. But watching this video, when you started to add the ellipses to the face, suddenly something totally clicked in my head. I'm gonna try doing this when I'm doodling! I know this video is a bit older, but thanks for making it!
your lessons are easy to understand thank u so much form all of these lessons about drawing i only take screen shoots from your lessons as it's worthy with this simple explanation.
I'm not even 3 minutes in and already find this REALLY usefull as i find it quite easy to think 3 dimensionally, so this way of drawing the face is worth gold for me! I wonder what the rest of the video is about :P Awesome stuff, keep the good work going! :D Btw, would you use PTSai over Gimp?
That´s really helpfull!!! I have a lot of experience with perspectiv but I have never drawn people - Sycras "ellipses way" makes it really simple for me! :)
Interesting. I'm more into using a mix between Loomis and some other method that Ron Lemen uses (the name escapes me). But! I've been using ellipses and spheres (balls, whatever) to use as a sort of guide for most of the shapes and forms of the body. You know how we use a ball to describe the cranium? So I've been using a ball (stretched or not) to define the ribcage, another for the core, another for the hips, another for one shoulder and so on. They're not just floating, though, they overlap. Some forms are more cylindrical, so I use ellipses for the sides of the cylinder then connect them. And when there's a cylinder that's bulgy I'll draw a ball first, then ellipses for the cylinder and complete the shape with more lines. I'm not sure that it was clear, and it's a bit hard to describe without actually demonstrating it. I'll take a plane to Canada to show it to you, okay? :P I have to force myself into thinking on planes, though. Especially those of the cheekbones, that I find super hard to understand.
allluckyseven I think the loomis method is very useful but to use it you have to have some sort of perspective knowledge, because you move spheres in a 3d space and stuff like that I guess, Keeping practice is the key to understand everything, so keep it up, I am going to do it too :D Bless
I do think that you have to have some perspective knowledge, yes, but it helps that in a flat plane, a sphere is a circle from any point of view. But speaking of perspective, that is usually seen as something boring, as all the fundamentals are... Until (in my case, at least) you watch Scott Robertson's drawing videos, which is something I can tell Sycra has watched, because what he says about ellipses axes and such is straight out of Robertson's. Those techniques may not work for everybody, though. Different people want different things out of Drawing.
Totally agree man ¡¡¡ it´s a misconception to think in the basic drawing like a boring stuff, it´s not always fun but a constantly discovery process. Scott is very insightful, I have learned tons from him and also from Marshall Vandruff, they are great guys. summarizing .. You´re right :D
close your eyes and touch your head like crazy for a while. Bam instant knowledge aquired. Also sometimes i imagine myself from a different point of view. Try to ghost around yourself even imagine yourself as a different person and how youd look like.
Osjey you will turn insane but hey it worth it.
Osjey woogie boogy muugie
Osjey what... have you done?
I've don't the ghosting but I thought it was a weird thing I did
Not everyone has such a good spacial imagination
You are one of the main reasons I got it into art college. Thank you.
Is it hard to get into one?
i did too but i dont like it sigh it but idk wat else to do either
fr a sexist male pig like you , yes its difficult
Not really I just took a portfolio of work. Im in the UK not sure what its like where you are though.
Hugh Mungus its hard here if u want go to a government college private colleges take easily here but u still have to show ur postfolio n maybe a test
they accept most ppl tho
but its expensive
One of my favorite things about your channel is the unconventional tools you’ve discovered to solve problems. The lightning bolt, the spirals, this. You use a lot of cool techniques that aren’t discussed anywhere else that I’ve seen, whereas plenty of people explain methods by loomis, bridgeman, Reilly, etc
ahhh I finally know why I've been struggling with drawing faces from different angles despite studying the skull thank you for making this!
Hands down you are one of the most intelligent artists of our generation
For anyone confused about the "major" and "minor" axis portion: The major axis is the longest possible line you can make within the ellipses and the minor is the smallest.
Not quite, both axis are in the middle of the ellipse, they intersect in the center and the major axis is the longer line and the minor axis is the smaller line but the minor axis isn't just the shortest line anywhere in the ellipse
Holy crap, I'm sketching while watching this and it helps so much. But I think first you need to have a decent understanding of anatomy or it won't fully make sense.
How much?
@@myneighborhedero9337 You need to know the rough basic shapes that the body can be broken down into.
Like?
Scourge I like how you responded 3 years later
@@MrNerdyBrit ngl, it's hella rare to see active old channels like yours 😳
Your tutorials just resonate so well with me. I've been drawing for 3ish years and have stagnated and all your help has taught me things I never knew and I think will help me grow a lot. Thank you!
wow this is insane, my drawings have always been so flat, which has really bothered me. i didn't know what to search to fix this, so i'm so glad i came across this video.
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Thank you so much! Your technique has changed my way of thinking things immediately. I've been trying to learn drawing for a while now, but didn't go well when I actually try to draw something. That's until I saw this video, then suddenly everything I read from textbooks start to make sense. I always struggle to get lighting and shadows correct without actually looking at the object, but with your technique, it's so much easier to imagine how the surfaces work just in my head. And the coolest thing is that i t really works not just for faces, but almost everything with complex surface divisions.
This helps me understand the easiest form of constructing the body. Thank you, thank you and THANK YOU!
Sycra your a friggin genius. You simplify the hell out of things and its unbelievably helpful. Thanks for sharing your findings.
This is the best video for introducing how to understand the planes of the face I've found. Everything else just goes to expert mode expecting full knowledge of the skull and a calarts degree... or is just a ultra simple "draw a circle with a line through it" tutorial. This is a nice bridge, thanks man!
Bro,you just changed the way i used to see a human face,thanks for sharing your knowledge with us
I L-L-L-Love this video! It's so useful in practice. It's nice to watch someone make step by step video where we can watch them draw, but this video brings understanding. Typical How-To videos generally make people copy the artist to keep up and to try their style. This video allows you to start improving your own art almost immediately. This video needs more views!
This is pure gold man. I'm worshipping you now.
You’re one of the best art teachers on here
Idk what it is but your tutorials are just so easy to grasp
Wow, your videos are totally different from any other tutorial on YT! You're like an alien, this is AMAZING! You're really thinking outside the box.
wow I watched this video in about one year ago and I didn’t understand how this could be helpful but right now I’m struggling with light and value and this is significantly helping me. just wow.
Sycra...absolute master class!!! This is brilliant...for an untrained artist, this is the sort of instructive video that keeps one interested.This subject has eluded me, but you just made me better...THANK YOU!!!
best instructor ever
I tried to watch this video last year and didn’t get it, but I got so much out of this this time! Thank you!
I've been hating how I've been drawing heads for some time now, and I feel this method is helping revamp my style. Thank you :)
Seriously my drawing looks 103928291929 times better thanks to this. YOUR VIDEOS ARE AMAZING. THANK YOU FOR EXISTING.
Thanks, Sycra! These ellipses are really much more handy!
I love that you use a pretty similar approach to how I approach my 3D sculpting to translate position, proportions and approaches when constrained to 2D. I do automatically as well, but just hadn't thought of explaining it this way. Nicely handled and deftly shared as usual!
this is really helpful. other videos didn't explain it well enough but you broke it down. can't wait to try it out later!
this helped me SOOO much , i'm applying it to the whole body now, i understand it better this way.AHHHhhhh
when I draw faces, they tend to look flat, specially when I'm drawing frontal.
now, those ellipses really shows the form, very well done Sycra. thank you!
I've never scene anyone do that before drawing ellipses, but it really helps when drawing facing! Thanks!
Lifesaver!!!! I love the simplicity and power of this. It already changed how I see my ladies in paint and I haven't touched a brush yet🤗. Thank you
Ladies in paint💭
the flappy thing protruding as if to protect the auditory canals is called the tragus. we use it a lot when we set patients to receive head and brain radiation. love your teaching. ellipse theory makes good sense to me. thanks
No way! I'm doing Andrew Loomis's Drawing the head and hands, and I've been memorizing the planes for the past few days but when I tried to actually add lights and shadows to them, I struggled because the head just didn't make a lot of sense.. THANK YOU SYCRA! Never stop teaching!
Same! The "plane heads" in the heads & hands Loomis book were very confusing to me...
Same as Sycra, I have an affinity for organic forms, and this method is coming much more naturally to me!!
Thanks Sycra!
I just drew a face without even thinking about it using this technique thank you and it does map the planes after you get going and i did just what you said to do i kept making the circles and stuff and then i turned and looked at a head with the planes it matches it just not as ridgid thank you so much this helped so much
Sycra you are the best!
Strong, easily applicable and powerful technique. Thanks. You am the man.
mark's drawing tutorials covers elipses and describing form really well, in his "drawing skills for industrial designer" if im not mistaken. he also has a game that helps you practice elipses and circles.
Wow, what a funny thing. Recently I started doing this on my own, trying to find a way to make faces easier for me and here this video came outta nowhere.
Thank you for expanding it and making it clearer for me!
i dont usually comment on videos but THIS IS PURE GENIOUS
Thank you for going through the topic, it helps a lot.
Really nice one, I think I like this method. That second oval trick makes it a lot more intuitive to size and place facial features. Thanks for sharing!
cool way of getting more inviled with our art...it touches our imagination to go foreward and in dept...very nice to let us know this sort of knowledge..thk u
this is the most helpful video ive seen so far tbh
This taught so much and changed the way I think about some aspects of drawing, awesome.
I recently watched the show Arcane and I’m just blow away by the gorgeous art style so now I’m trying to be better at drawing. This vid is super helpful!
This is sooooo helpful ! Understand the light and shadows is so important thank you !
Please make more videos about it !
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Holy CRAP these videos are so helpful i cannot believe it. THANK YOU.
Wow thanks. I'm excited to explore this further
Jesus..... I was learning about Ellipses in Algebra 2 right when you uploaded this video xD
Good on you Sycra, our lord and savior
this really helps me as someone who gets really stiff with boxes (for constructing the face) buts still wants solid planes
this video just change my life thank you!!!!
Massive thanks for sharing this helpful method.
This was so helpful. Thank you.
I've been reading Bridgeman's book on drawing the head and hands but I've been having so much trouble with this. Really appreciate all the tutorials.
I love this! It explains something that I wasn't getting. THANK YOU!
Really great tutorial, Sycra.
This was amazingly helpful!
Another excellent explanation! Thank you so much for all the time and work you put into your channel! Very much appreciated.
NOOO!! Oh man is would of been soo helpfully for my portfolio review today
😭😭😭
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Thank you, I still have to try this out but I feel like using elipses would for me work better than the usual boxes. Once again, thank you, your work is priceless.
it helps, mostly with understanding and finding my light and placing shadows.
Woah, i just tried this with more triangular shapes (to match my style) and it's helping so much. Thank you!
thank you! your method really helps emphasis it much better
Great technique. Really improved my faces and gave them a much more 3D feel. Thanks for sharing!
Great Info Sycra!!! Thank you...
Thanks. This oval thing is really helpful
This help me so much in my sculpture drawing art class,thank you !
I enjoy the way you explain things! Definitely giving this a try!
This was the most helpful method/tip that I've ever learned, thank you so much!
i just tried this with a hand while watching this and i like it. :D
Exactly what i've searching for. Thank you so muuuucccch💕💕💕
Thanks a lot for those advices.
It's really helpful because I had a bit of trouble to shadow faces properly. I had it figure it out for some parts but the "ellipse thing" will make it much easier :D
This video helped SO MUCH!!!!! It really helps me understand where volumes are facing. It makes understanding where the figure is facing very simple.
Another excellent tutorial as usual :) Thank you Sycra!
Love all your videos. The flap on the ear is called the tragus.
Omg this helped so much wow ... I learned sooooo much from this tutorial.
This is great, very useful. why would people thumbs down this video?
I'd been trying to use the Loomis method to draw faces and not really enjoying my results. But watching this video, when you started to add the ellipses to the face, suddenly something totally clicked in my head. I'm gonna try doing this when I'm doodling! I know this video is a bit older, but thanks for making it!
Wow so now I'm in advanced level 'cause everything makes perfect sense in my mind!! Its so much easier to imagine the body as geometric shapes...
this video is really helpful and the concepts are well explained - thanks!!
your lessons are easy to understand
thank u so much
form all of these lessons about drawing i only take screen shoots from your lessons as it's worthy with this simple explanation.
This tutorial is exactly what I needed. Sorry, I'm not speak English very well.
Different perspective.... Helps a lot 🙏🙏🙏thank you 😊
This actually helped a lot. Thanks man.
really a for tip because getting a 3d look help a lot in initial stage.
Thanks
hi sycra you're amazing!
It's just beautiful.
Thank you
man this is the best tutorial i've seen,
i actually learned something really useful :D
Wow thank you, this was so helpful!
Figured this out a while ago, real helpful
Excellent content! Very helpful.
I'm not even 3 minutes in and already find this REALLY usefull as i find it quite easy to think 3 dimensionally, so this way of drawing the face is worth gold for me! I wonder what the rest of the video is about :P
Awesome stuff, keep the good work going! :D
Btw, would you use PTSai over Gimp?
Great approach! Thanks!
Please notice me sycra senpai
One year past and senpai still hasn't been answering...
Some say he will...Others have their doubts. Only time will tell.
it looks like senpai will never notice! :(
Rip
Why senpai didn't you notice?
That´s really helpfull!!! I have a lot of experience with perspectiv but I have never drawn people - Sycras "ellipses way" makes it really simple for me! :)
Interesting. I'm more into using a mix between Loomis and some other method that Ron Lemen uses (the name escapes me). But! I've been using ellipses and spheres (balls, whatever) to use as a sort of guide for most of the shapes and forms of the body.
You know how we use a ball to describe the cranium? So I've been using a ball (stretched or not) to define the ribcage, another for the core, another for the hips, another for one shoulder and so on. They're not just floating, though, they overlap.
Some forms are more cylindrical, so I use ellipses for the sides of the cylinder then connect them. And when there's a cylinder that's bulgy I'll draw a ball first, then ellipses for the cylinder and complete the shape with more lines.
I'm not sure that it was clear, and it's a bit hard to describe without actually demonstrating it. I'll take a plane to Canada to show it to you, okay? :P
I have to force myself into thinking on planes, though. Especially those of the cheekbones, that I find super hard to understand.
allluckyseven I think the loomis method is very useful but to use it you have to have some sort of perspective knowledge, because you move spheres in a 3d space and stuff like that I guess, Keeping practice is the key to understand everything, so keep it up, I am going to do it too :D
Bless
I do think that you have to have some perspective knowledge, yes, but it helps that in a flat plane, a sphere is a circle from any point of view.
But speaking of perspective, that is usually seen as something boring, as all the fundamentals are... Until (in my case, at least) you watch Scott Robertson's drawing videos, which is something I can tell Sycra has watched, because what he says about ellipses axes and such is straight out of Robertson's.
Those techniques may not work for everybody, though. Different people want different things out of Drawing.
Totally agree man ¡¡¡ it´s a misconception to think in the basic drawing like a boring stuff, it´s not always fun but a constantly discovery process. Scott is very insightful, I have learned tons from him and also from Marshall Vandruff, they are great guys. summarizing .. You´re right :D
Thank you so much for this great tutorial! amazing technique. Really helps with practice
Your videos are unique. Thank you for all of them. :)
Thank you so much for all your tutorials, they really help me a lot! :)
I learned a lot from your video, thank you very much!