How To Draw Dynamic Heads & Faces In Perspective | Drawing The Top Down, Front View of The Head

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Drawing the front, side and three quarter views of the head is fantastic for learning its basic structure and proportions. But what happens if we want to learn how to draw heads in perspective, on more dynamic angles?
This makes our task a little more difficult than drawing the standard views of the head and face, because the proportions shift and the shape completely changes.
But this is really an optical illusion. The shape and measurements of the head still apply, they're distorted by perspective when we begin turning them in space.
This means we can simply apply the rules of perspective to the proportions of the head and face, and foreshorten it's overall shape according to the view we're drawing it on.
In this preview lesson, you'll learn how to draw heads from above, in the front view. If you enjoy the tutorial and get some value out of it, then I highly recommend checking out the full class where you'll learn how to draw the head in perspective from multiple angles.
Let's get started!

[@kiehallo]

Finally a video they actually explains how the looking down view works. I've been searching for a video like that for a while, and surprisingly there aren't any that explain it. They mostly draw them.
I've only found the looking up explanation

[@ChrisCranham]

Amazing vid, dude. It's great to see some old school style HTDC content coming back into the repertoire. I always thought you had the coolest drawing style compared to the other guys back then.

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Thanks Chris. I want to start putting more of these out in the coming weeks, now that we're winding things up on KOZOR.

[@kori4386]

ill buy it just because i miss your old tutorials thank god your back doing that kind of stuff

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Thanks Kori - I appreciate that. Looking forward to putting more of these out.

[@ammanbansal2265]

I just watched the video and did the drawing. At times I had to pause and make sure that I was making it as accurate as possible, That said, my final piece turned out to be fantastic. Of course, that's also because I was watching a tutorial, when I should be doing some studying to get better at it. It's like you said a couple of days a while back to me, "you go through the whole process. Improvement and fulfillment will come through doing that alone."
At the end of the day, all I care about is just trying to get closer and closer to my goal of being a comic book artist and getting into comic book style art. That said, I'd love to see more of this content that you have to offer Clayton.
I look forward to it.

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

That's awesome Amman, I hope it helped you out. I'd encourage you to try and go through the process from memory as well, see how you go. But yes, more tutorials are coming up soon!

[@irunsauce6437]

Thank you for this tutorial this actuaaly helped me alot here!

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

You are welcome. Glad it helped you out.

[@demeterstidbits7146]

Like others have said it’s really cool seeing these videos coming back! Hope to see a few of your coloring videos they were always amongst my favorites

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

For sure Demeters. I'm looking forward to putting more of these out. Glad you're getting some value out of them.

[@Daily_Digital_Drawing_D.D.D]

Thanks for the video on creating a kosher formatted face shape.

[@koreybarton523]

Awesome video !

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Thanks bro, hope you get some use out of it.

[@KillerTacos54]

Amazing video man

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Thanks KillerTacos, hope you got some value out of it.

[@dexter8584]

Bro awesome vid....I swear you can produce content like you're on cloud 9 at times but one moment with the head and face and it makes you feel like you just started drawing stick men. Thanks for this it really helped me in my study of the head. Gonna purchase the whole class for sure.

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Thanks Dexter, I'm really happy to hear that.

[@Thollis1987]

Thank you 😊 this is very helpful information.

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Very happy to hear you got some value out of it TaRoya. Thanks for watching!

[@darrenwaggonerofficial]

Love it brother!

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Thanks Darren.

[@harshalkolase9249]

Dude, this is cool !

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Thank you Harshal.

[@timothyrodis5716]

Super helpful. Thank you.

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Thanks Timothy, glad to hear that.

[@oopideas8254]

Is this a new course

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

It's more of a new lesson than course, focusing on drawing the head in perspective.

[@oopideas8254]

@@howtodrawcomicsnet thx

[@bashirevloev2008]

😁👍👍👍👍👍✌

[@Shadowgalleryc]

I though you were going to to a bum tut!

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

I really do need to do a bum tut. I'll add it to the list Hocky.