Drawing Heads - Just Get These 5 Things

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There are two major skills you need for heads: one is about 3D form and one is about 2D shapes. This video is about the forms.
We look at Loomis heads in particular, but we also take useful ideas from Asaro and Reilly. And we cover the common mistakes to watch out for!
0:00 Intro
1:03 Loomis head
3:54 Loomis mistakes
7:53 Other models
10:30 Figures versus portraits
12:23 A head model for figures
15:59 the really important thing

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@galereginald12 10 ай бұрын

John Asaro was a student of Frank Reilly. He meant for the Asaro head to go along with the Reilly Rhythms of the head. They work very well together. The Reilly method is like a shorthand gps system that explains the muscle rhythms, bone structure and planes of the head. Both those methods used on top of the Loomis head has served me very well. I do agree not to use them when doing 7 to 3 minute figure drawings though since short quick sketch is not about highly accurate proportion or likeness like say, a long 3 hour drawing or portrait.

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

yeah thanks great comment. i feel like the reilly rhythms are great for an actual drawing process, and asaro is great for understanding and learning. i'm not a portrait artist though, so it's not (yet) my area of expertise

@MKisJ 10 ай бұрын

Genius is making the complex and obscure simple! Well done.

@violescent 10 ай бұрын

Kenzo! Thank you so much! You have no idea how incredibly valuable your content is to me. FINALLY someone who approaches topics with artists in mind. I could not care less about which muscle attaches to which bone and what the Latin name is. But I do care about shapes and the way they make humans of all forms beautiful. Without you, I'd still draw the arms directly onto a shoulder-joint-ball, like the awful mannequins have. So, again, thank you and please continue. Your content is so valuable.

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

I'm so glad!

@Forsakenguard 9 ай бұрын

I recently came across something that helped me with eyes and eyebrows by a lot. It was the "mask method" Basically you first place the nose and mouth and then draw a simple mask around the eyes and brow. For some reason it greatly helped me figure out the variable eye shapes and placement of the eyebrows and folds of the eye lids. I highly recommend it.

@philthepanic 10 ай бұрын

When I draw the figure I tend to draw the largest masses, often the rib cages / pelvis. I agree with you, starting with the head can sometimes throw the pose off.

@alexmccaleb2152 10 ай бұрын

Kenzoooo you wonderful man. Thanks for this. Thumbnail tells me PLENTY. I'll have to revisit this after work 🙃

@nitzeart 10 ай бұрын

This came in so handy ❤ thank you. Just at the perfect time 😅 I’m primarily a traditional artist and I’ve been painting digitally for like two years (without enough consistency tbh) and one of the things I struggle the most is sketching and anatomy in digital. It comes relatively easy in traditional mediums because I have the practice but I haven’t been able to translate that to digital. So I’ve been trying to go over the fundamentals, especially of human form and anatomy. You’re videos have been so helpful! I actually use the Loomis method just to start, to figure out the angle of the face, eye line and center line, and the size of the huge human skull. But it’s easier to think of face planes when actually painting the face. And forms for painting hair. Obviously in figure drawing you probably don’t need much more than a few well placed and thought out lines, but for painting the planes and forms are necessary for light and color too.

@ThePaulahoo1 10 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!!! I needed this video so badly!!

@JM51CASTILLO 10 ай бұрын

Love u master Kenzo!

@upurshaft 10 ай бұрын

If you get these methods to intersect to create a new method, Venn Head seems to be the only option. Keep up the fantastic work.

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

ah Venn head very nice!

@oldepersonne 10 ай бұрын

Very clear and helpful. Thank you.

@suefraser5257 10 ай бұрын

Once again, clear simple explanations with clear remedies. Thank you Kenzo for describing all the mistakes I make and then providing a simple path to remedy them. I have a Loomis book but find I get confused when I start cutting the side planes off, so this video is really helpful.

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

thanks Sue! hope you've been well :)

@andreistein2429 10 ай бұрын

Awesome valuable lesson. Thanks a lot 👍👍👍

@randominternetuser2 10 ай бұрын

Great video! Realized some things about how i draw heads that need to change, thanks!

@slowwake6128 10 ай бұрын

Excellent video, this is very helpful for those that get hung up in the "formula" of the head.

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@sahanranmuthu1690 10 ай бұрын

thank you💕

@holamissmusica 10 ай бұрын

Super useful thank you

@naomikopi4444 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant

@SamunaiAisuru 10 ай бұрын

Hi Kenzo! Not sure how you did it again but i'm working, on my own (read: without any training/guidance/reference), on drawing heads and here you pop out a video about drawing heads! I think I should start looking for little cameras in my home :) ;) ? Thanks for sharing this video and the additional information! I'm sure it will work out with what I'm practising now :) .🖌

@crisalidathomassie1811 10 ай бұрын

Very impressive video. Thanks for the demos and explanation to help us with drawing heads in a much simpler way. Great channel for drawing! New subscriber! I wish you all the best! ❤

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@rubenscasco801 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for that clear explanations, I cherished this opportunity of crossing into your Video.

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@angelruizrisueno2729 10 ай бұрын

Muchas gracias por sus consejos, muy buenos. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@darealtrushio1516 10 ай бұрын

Sus?🤨

@angelruizrisueno2729 10 ай бұрын

@@darealtrushio1516 SUS = TUS

@SolisDiem 10 ай бұрын

Could you too make such tutourials on animals? Or on fantasy creatures? :D

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

i would love to in future, once i myself have learned about drawing those things :)

@sueizzard4358 10 ай бұрын

This is really helpful Kenzo and so true. Going to try drawing some spheres over the reference model pics just to see just how much I get the emphasise on the gesture incorrect. Thank you.

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful Sue!

@tracyloringart 10 ай бұрын

Love this! Watermelon slice 🤯

@bunjil 3 ай бұрын

i love your channel dude

@lovelifedrawing 3 ай бұрын

thank you!

@Micro-Moo 10 ай бұрын

That is quite impressive and inspiring! Now... Don't you think we should better not only combine Loomis, Asaro, Reilly, or other decomposition methods, but we can also choose or create a wanted combination of the fly, depending on a particular model's head and some “main idea” we're trying to conduct?

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

yes i do think being able to see and go with forms and planes on the fly based on what you're seeing is a crucial skill. quite often for someone like me teaching, we want to give a sort of formula to give a head start because it's getting started that's the hard part. as you practise, your ability to create forms intuitively as you see them will grow

@Micro-Moo 10 ай бұрын

@@lovelifedrawing Great, thank you for your answer.

@burntt999 10 ай бұрын

I mean… now that we’re talking about it, dude.. you have a wonderful noggin to sketch for these exercises. Edit: I also wanna say thank you very much for moving your head in so many different directions.. your giving me so many angles to practice that perfect loomis you got!

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

Hehehe I do have a sizeable cranium for all these brains

@JamesJoy-yc8vs 10 ай бұрын

I second that! I noticed that after you said "... the planes of the face..." I found myself watching your chin and cheekbones as your head turned, visualizing the guidelines defining the volumes. I'm timid with facial features, keeping them small and close to the skull, afraid I'll end up with exaggerated caricature or something. But now I'm seeing the underlying forms in a new way

@davidbongiorno5225 5 ай бұрын

Great tutorial for life drawing the head. I call the notched head the robocop head

@Egle3 10 ай бұрын

Thank you

@user-nb7rj5ow2c 10 ай бұрын

❤روعة

@wabbalubbadubdub9713 10 ай бұрын

I'll be waiting

@davidgormley4419 10 ай бұрын

Use the Kenzo Key to unlock the ability for drawing the head 😉

@jessanpalomer2647 10 ай бұрын

I love your video about gesture drawing with simon luty the guy is a master know how to land lines properly and gracefully too bad I cant find more of his works like he stopped uploading hope you collaborate with him more.

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

yeah i know he doesn't seem to upload any more which is a shame because his drawings was so good and he kept improving. hopefully he's busy being a pro artist

@XD-rd8zd 10 ай бұрын

thank you, Kenzo! btw, I don't see the link for houston's head...

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

sorry i forgot to add it but it's there now

@adrienmonvaillier1090 10 ай бұрын

Wow that's really cool ! I still struggle to connect the head to the torso, is there a efficient methid to do it well?

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

Yeah i usually use the sternocleidomastoid muscle

@skythegamedev3751 9 ай бұрын

Since this pulls from a bunch of different head drawing methods and compiles the best of them, maybe it could be called the "Kenzo Compilation" or "Kenzo Compromise"? The latter of the two is what i thought of first but i realized that it sounded a bit negative lol Edit: hehe, "Cranial Kenzo Compilation"

@lovelifedrawing 9 ай бұрын

Maybe Kenzompilation??

@horith8033 10 ай бұрын

nice

@roter13 10 ай бұрын

this man is gorgeous.

@hsuehejjw1731 10 ай бұрын

Can u show more examples of you doing it

@staceypeak199 10 ай бұрын

Obviously it should be called The Kenzo Head!

@nemo9540 8 ай бұрын

Maybe the racoon method 🤔.

@figaroismycat 10 ай бұрын

I think you could call it the "carved egg" method

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

i like it!

@earth355 10 ай бұрын

Do a live stream

@georgemohr7532 10 ай бұрын

Sorry I do not see the link to Steve Houston

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

sorry forgot to add it, it's there now

@capneyeball575 10 ай бұрын

How about “The Kenzo Head?”

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

Hehehe. I think if I have a right to put my name on something it could be the pelvis pants. Kenzo Pants maybe?

@Micro-Moo 10 ай бұрын

@@lovelifedrawing 🙂 👍!

@samiran5751 9 ай бұрын

Have you any own idea...with out. Loomis?????

@TheAzhighwayman 10 ай бұрын

You wanna learn good portrait drawing!!! go study the skull as much as you can!!

@MM_Meh 10 ай бұрын

Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, you heard it here first, I hear by dub the pointy egg with a notch cut of it as the SAITAMA method

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

cool name! why saitama? it's an area near tokyo right

@clixflix610 10 ай бұрын

Hmmm….. as for a name, how about an LLD head?

@lovelifedrawing 10 ай бұрын

i like the LLD branding, but i didn't really think of any of those ideas!

@dkern-kb6sy 2 ай бұрын

The trick for drawing heads or figures....study anatomy. Loomis is good...he studied anatomy. If you don't know anatomy, believe me, it shows......

@jonjonsson6323 10 ай бұрын

None of these work well as they have to adapt the model to the projection, basically you wont get a likeness If you use a metod for everyone. What I had to do, was stop painting small, ie you cant get a good portrait to work if you have to downwcale everything

@zooropa414 10 ай бұрын

loomis method is overrated, intuitive drawing is best

@Micro-Moo 10 ай бұрын

My idea is decomposing on the fly, making decisions depending on a particular model's head or idea. After all, intuition is only the result of observation of nature and experience. And I would agree with you about “overrated” and say more: all pattern-like ways of thinking are badly overrated.

@cynthiamarston2208 10 ай бұрын

I agree. I would say any given head or pose is gonna dictate its planes angles and curves without putting down a map. You’re gonna paint over the map anyway and paint what you see.

@Micro-Moo 10 ай бұрын

@@cynthiamarston2208 Good point - the pose, too. After all, we draw static images, this is a certain level of abstraction. In a way, a different pose is a different model. The best way to analyze it is exactly to see what you physically can see, and not what you are supposed to see based on some good or bad conception. This is called the “Procrustean bed”. 🙂 I don't quite understand what you mean by “map” though, but most likely I would agree if you gave me a better idea. The term itself is quite confusing, its true meaning is a sort of relationship, but it is more often used in the sense of “chart”, a more accurate and definitive word - and I don't think you meant that.

@cynthiamarston2208 10 ай бұрын

@@Micro-Moo map. Like when you check proportions completely. Pre sketch?

@Micro-Moo 10 ай бұрын

@@cynthiamarston2208 «Map» Thank you for the clarification! Perfectly clear. It's totally up to you, but if I was you, I would call it “pre-sketch”. 🙂 Best of luck to you!