I beg of you can someone take me through a step by step process for drawing faces?I can manage simple male cartoon faces but I can't draw female faces, or add details for the life of me. It always looks wrong without failI have some 'talent' (using the word very loosely) at drawing but faces have always been my weak spot
>>7803395https://archive.org/details/andrew-loomis-drawing-the-head-hands/mode/2uphow many attempts have you made? if you are feeling bad about them, perhaps that causes a negative feedback loop leading you to drawing them less. it takes a lot to get good, the margin for error is small if you are aiming for an attractive face. Loomis helped me. maybe he can help you too. there's no 'step by step' process that will give you a great result. it's a whole internal growth thing, you need to learn to see too.
>>7803395JUST DRAW and stop asking for magic pills that will make you good over night. They don't exist.tl;dr stop being lazy and/or stupid
Loomis helped me out, but you simply need to practice, draw with references first.
>>7803417>>78034389/10 times I use the Loomis method with sketching out lines and whatnot for the facial features but when I erase those guidelines it looks like shit. I understand I need to practice more but practicing shit methods won't help me get better
>>7803482Can I see your attempts?
>>7803482Jack Hamm, Drawing the Head and Figure is probably your best bet. It has multiple step-by-step methods to follow, not just one, so you are more likely to find an approach that works for you while simultaneously gaining a greater understanding of the subject by looking at it differently each time. Hamm also gives LOTS of tips to avoid common pitfalls. Because of its age, the type of female face (hairstyle and makeup) is dated but the information is still very useful. This is not solid-construction-oriented like Loomis or Bridgeman, but more direct and practical working knowledge, like tips and tricks from an experienced old-timer. It's also geared more towards drawing in ink or pencil than painting.
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>>7803490Hard to see but this is usually how my attempts turn out
>>7803490This is an attempt not using any method but just trying to ‘draw with my eyes’
>>7803497>Jack Hamm, Drawing the Head and Figure is probably your best bet.I think it's a great book, but I personally think it's a rather bad book for learning to draw the head outright - I think this book is better suited to someone who already has a grasp of drawing the head (and figure) and will benefit from the extra tips, than someone who is trying to learn those things for the first time.>>7803482A problem I see is that people who use the loomis method, and not realise you're suppose to be adjusting the proportions (1/3 for brow, 1/3 for nose, 1/3 for chin) depending on who you are drawing. everything remaining 1/3 is the cookie cutter standard, and while many heads DO follow that, many heads do not.This doesn't mean that the Loomis method is right for you, it might really be a miserable method that just doesn't 'click' for you - if that does feel like the case, then do try the Hamm method that the above anon mention (which I find overly simple), there's also Bridgman (I've heard some anons rave on about it, haven't tried it myself), and the Reilly Method (which looks crazy complicated, but if more guiding is going to help you, then that's a good thing).>>7803544This one is a significant improvement above the other one.
>>7803395OK, so I struggle with faces and painting heavilywhich is why I'm giving you advice on it, please discard it if you don't find it credible.I have attached my previous works for credibility on left,and my recent practice of faces on the right.I will also be posting a second image that's advice I got from 4chan that's extremely helpful.Drawing good realistic faces requires you to have a good understating of facial planes, meanwhile unrealistic faces rarely require a good understanding of facial planes since the face and its features is largely symbolic.so the first thing you need to do, even before loomis head, is to draw the Asaro head from several different angles, as it will teach you about the planes of the face.you can use a lot of different exercises to learn the planes after you start to grasp it,but the best to start from is the Asaro head.(drawing a realistic face requires you to ignore the face symbols like eyes, nose, lips etc, but focus more on the planes forming them)for artists, I recommend zim (its a chinese artist) and Yuming Lifor courses i recommend MED'S MAP, and to download it, Join the telegram group: @coursebusters.P.S. always post your attempt, no matter how bad, or people will tell you to kys.I'm not very good at it yet, but i see much more improvement than before, thanks to the Asaro head idea
Use vertical straight lines (your pencil) to measure how things line up. Measure arbitrary features and use them for accuracy. (The head should be as wide as 6 of her eyes. Or her chin is exactly one nose length away from the bottom of her nose. You keep doing little measurement checks like this and slowly a perfect portrait will emerge
>>7803548>This one is a significant improvement above the other one.I thought so as well; I was actually really proud of that when I finished it. I was doing more of what this anon is saying>>7803572 and constantly making little adjustmentsAny other tips besides draw more? I seem to be on the right track with the second picture and want to keep it going in the correct direction
Are you drawing from reference or inventing heads from imagination?
>>7803669Reference, but I'd love to get to a point where I can do it from imagination. I can draw cartoons and the like from imagination but something that looks real
Pick a system for memorizing the proportions and features of the head from the front and side view, like loomis. Then apply it a bunch for front/side portraits until you are confident you truly know it. A good way to check if you actually know the information is explaining it as a step by step process without being able to draw yourself, as if you were instructing somebody else how to draw a head. Then you can begin to use that knowledge when you draw portraits in other perspectives. You will overtime learn how to project those orthographic views into perspective drawings while maintaining the correct proportions.This is the same way I would learn to draw pretty much any object. If you want to learn how to draw a car, figure out how to draw the important car features from the side and front first. Only once you can draw them in no/flat perspective can you begin to draw them in more complex perspectives.
