It feels a lot more intuitive than the Loomis and seems to account for a lot more unique face shapes. I think the Loomis Method is a good base to start out with.

That's awesome to hear! Yes, even though the proportions are generally uniform on all people, everyone is simultaneously unique, so finding the nuances and differences on each person is the key to likeness and lifelike portraits. Glad you enjoyed the video!

You're welcome! I'm glad you like the video. It took me a long time to figure this stuff out so i'm always looking for ways to speed up the learning process.

There are many more videos to come in the future!

Oh good, we want these to be watchable on phones.

So glad to hear that! We enjoy making these videos and are always happy to hear they have helped people learn. 😊 -Olivia

Awesome! Thanks for letting me know.

Thank you, Christian! This is Olivia replying. I am so glad you enjoy the videos and find the animated overlays helpful! We are looking into how we can add these to the class videos as well because they are incredibly helpful in order to demonstrate what Brian is describing on the reference photos. The only limitation is that they are very time consuming to create and edit in. Sometimes I feel like I need 3 of me to do everything we want to do for the school.😅 This is great feedback, so thank you very much and I hope you continue to enjoy the school and KZfaq channel!

I'll be making videos that talk about that more in the future. Sometimes the lines can be parallel. It has to do with the amount of perspective in the photo. Or how close or how far away the viewer is from the object being drawn. I always recommend studying perspective because it is the basis for all representational art. But if you think about two point perspective and consider the vanishing points for a box, if the vanishing points are closer to the box then the way the lines are angled becomes more extreme. They are still parallel but in perspective. If you move the points farther away from the box then the lines will begin to flatten out and appear more parallel. When taking a photo, if the camera is right up on an object then the perspective will be more extreme and the vanishing points will be closer to the object. But if you stand farther back and zoom in on something then things will flatten out and the vanishing points will move farther away. Sorry this got so long.

Eyes are still a few videos away at least but we'll get there.

We will! We're building a new feature on our website and plan to make more videos after that project is complete. We'll still continue our live streams every Wednesday, so you can definitely join us for those!

Hi Kaitlin! And welcome to the school. If you like our youtube videos then you'll definitely like the fundamental head class. Starting next week we'll be uploading more youtube videos as well. As for photo reference, students in the fundamental head class will receive 4 photos per week for 5 weeks, so you'll have 20 head photos by the end of the term. With the exception of the first week, i'll be drawing one pose per demo so each week you'll have an extra 3 photos to work from. I always give extra photos each week because its really important to apply the information in the demo to other poses if you have time. When you watch my demo and then work from the same photo it gives you the opportunity to study and copy my decision making and problem solving, which is a great starting point. Working from a different photo/pose will force you to start developing your own problem solving skills and is an important part of the learning process, so i think you have the right idea about finding more photos to work from. Unfortunately i don't know of a great resource for free photo reference. Google image searches might be your best bet. The problem is that the lighting thats typically used for portrait photography isn't great for learning to draw. But thats okay as long as you just practice construction/structure and don't try to take your drawings any farther than that. There's also a place called croquis cafe that has a lot of photos and good poses. Unfortunately the lighting they use isn't great either but, again, if you're just focused on learning construction/structure then it doesn't matter much. I think they charge a yearly fee though. There's also a site at quickposes.com that is a free quicksketch practice page. I think they only have figure reference but you can probably just skip through the photos and find the ones with interesting heads and then just draw the head. Just know that most of their photos have the same lighting problems as the other places i mentioned. Its really difficult to find photos with the type of lighting thats ideal for learning to draw. Let me know if you have any questions and olivia or i will try to answer as soon as we can.

@@foundationartschool Thank you! That helps. Definitely just sticking with construction for now.

I don't know if we are going to give out the photo reference but i meant to upload photos of the drawing to the community tab. I'll try to remember to do that later.

We shoot all of our own reference photos so the only place you can get them is by taking a class at Foundation Art School. There are a lot of other places around that sell reference packs though. A lot of them don't have the best lighting or have really difficult lighting but are still good for learning construction. I can't think of any off the top of my head that I know for sure have lighting that is conducive to learning but between Proko, Grafit Studio, and Croquis Cafe, I'm sure you can probably find some. You just might have to spend some time looking through what they have and picking the stuff that has the type of lighting you're looking for.

Its in development now but still another 3 or 4 months away from being completed. We will post updates as we get closer to that time.

The next part of this tutorial series will come out on Tuesday. I hope it will be well worth the wait! 😄

Hi Beans, I'll check that out! Thanks for letting me know🙌

A lot of people used a curved center line for the head and seem to make it work so I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with that. I was taught to use a straight line and, personally, I find it a lot easier to judge the center line with a straight line and then figure out how things relate to that straight line. For instance, on some head types, the nose and tooth cylinder and chin might sit out in front of the straight center line but once you become familiar with different head types it's pretty easy to spot when that is happening. Figuring out how things relate to the straight line, at least for me, is a lot easier than trying to create a curved center line that perfectly matches the head type that you're trying to draw. But I think that has a lot to do with how one learns initially and what makes the most sense to you.

You are very welcome! We are looking forward to releasing the next video. Thanks for subscribing! 😄🙌