it's gonna be very scientific today we're going to be going over the different parts of the skull
where stuff aligns and how that looks underneath the face that sort of thing so skulls skulls can
be broken down into multiple anatomical parts so a lot of people are like oh it's a skull the
skull is like the umbrella term right it's kind of like going like oh there's the body but there's
different parts of the body there's your arms there's your legs that kind of thing right skulls
can be broken down as well there are different parts of skulls that could be broken down into
multiple anatomical parts and understanding their structure allows for a better drawn
face so understanding where bone goes on the face understanding where the tougher parts of the face
are will allow you to draw everything else because you know what's going on underneath it how quickly
can I draw a skull cranium the back Circle here is not a circle it's an elongated oval so we're
going to start with the lateral view right now the lateral on the left of the face to be clear we are
talking about skulls not specifically like teeth or specific things like that we are very heavily
focusing on the skull itself this actually should be larger so this is where the ear canal would
start right here so if you feel your ear it's like squishy right and that's because the ear is not
made of bone it's made of cartilage so it actually is not part of the skull at all okay all right
okay this is why I am not a scientific artist because I'm choosing to ignore a lot of things
this should be higher okay I did it from a profile view first the profile viewer the
lateral view artist's term it's a profile view scientific term it's the lateral we are going to
be focusing on landmarks first and your landmarks are very very important when it comes to drawing
skulls because then by this point now you'll be able to understand what is underneath the
skin so that what's on top of the skin becomes easier to draw it's better to understand what's
going on underneath like your skin and your flesh and whatever because your bones are your hardest
landmarks right and it is much much easier to work with it this way so notice the shape
of the skull notice where the mandible starts the mandible begins directly halfway through the head
so if you're ever drawing your jaw if you draw that first Circle bring the face down your jaw
will start halfway through that Circle because our jaw is built like this or the mandible is
directly located in the center of the cranium right here so you can think of it that way and
notice that the cranium is a big long oval the mandible stops about halfway through here so if
you draw your head and your chin ends all the way back here and you're only giving giving
yourself that much left room not that much room left for the rest of your face then you've drawn
your head too small never forget the cranium or Cranium is huge is because it fits our brain we
need to make sure that our brain fits inside of here and our brain doesn't like reach all the
way to the edges here our brain is more like that right it's floating in there so remember halfway
through mandible starts there right here is the opening for the ear canal your ear would go right
here see your ear is directly attached to the mandible so not only is your mandible halfway
through your cranium your ear is as well if you draw it so you have a person from the side here
and your ear is all the way back here or like if you draw in your chin and it's like this
and your ears kind of like that or if it's like right here or whatever right it shouldn't be if
you have your face again halfway through the cranium your ear will start right here so it
will be also be aligned with this Center Line of the side of the face landmarks that I have talked
about so far is that the mandible is halfway through the cranium and that the ear canal align
It lines with the end of the mandible so this is the ear canal right here it is a hole notice as
well the jawline is on a slant the mandible is slanted but when we draw in our lips remember
that we shouldn't have everything on this side be completely flat we want to bring that out because
the teeth protrude from the head and that will also help make the lips protrude from the head as
well only the mandible moves on a hinge joint so right here it's a hinge right so it's kind of like
there's a thing here oh actually I can just show you there's a hinge joint right there and it only
moves from that specific spot so if you're drawing somebody's opening their mouth it will only open
from that specific point that hinge moves it up and down the top of the head will not move the
same way the mandible will move but notice as well that the angle of the mandible goes backwards it
will open up much wider so you need that squash and stretch within your face to make sure that it
looks proper let's do some labeling right now yes that's the thing that I should have done first so
this one right down here we've already been talking about it this is the mandible or the
jaw right here is the technically okay so the real term is the external acoustic metis I'm gonna call
it the ear canal back here it's kind of divided like hereish you can call this bone the parietal
bone and this takes up the majority of the back half of the face the one right here this entire
forehead bit this is the frontal bone right here this little piece this is the nasal bone and this
right here this little piece this is the zygomatic so these are the important ones you don't really
need to know much else for now I'm going to draw the frontal view so then we can get more landmarks
okay so let's label these bones again this one right here is the nasal bone this one this is
the zygomatic the nasal the zygomatic also known as cheekbones yes this one down here this is the
mandible this one here it goes all the way back to the head so it doesn't actually stop right
here so that's why we have the lateral view as well so you can see that this is the frontal this
one is the maxilla so these are the important parts the important bones that you're going to
need if you want to draw think about anatomy in this way the zygomatic the zygomatic bones very
very important what you can do for me touch your cheeks now go upwards underneath your eyes if you
feel that hard bone kind of right underneath your eyes that is your zygomatic bone right there this
is your cheekbone this is a protruding plane of the face and is important for lighting is it so
sharp it feels more rounded that's because of the layers of fat and skin that we have on top
underneath it this little section right here empty portion between I'm just going to call
it the zygote and mandible is the cheek so this section right here that's where your cheeks are
because there's no bone between your mandible and your zygomatic however get in the way sink
in this area for a more emaciated look so if you want somebody to look like they haven't eaten
in a while if you want somebody to look weirdly thin or sickly sinking in the cheek between the
zygomatic and the mandible is a fun strategy that you can do frontal bone is one third of
the skull don't shrink it notice right here the frontal bone is one two three it is a third of
the entire skull if you have like your eyes all the way up here and there's just like this tiny
little bit of forehead left you that you haven't left yourself enough room your forehead's a lot
bigger than you think so the frontal bone is a third of the skull so don't shrink it don't
shrink your forehead the frontal bone protrudes so it's like a hood over the eyes so the frontal bone
right here your brow bone is what they call it but it is technically just a piece of the
frontal bone it does protrude it comes out like this so it creates a hood over your eye sockets
that is what we want to think about when we are looking at skulls different parts of the landmarks
so when we have the skull with its little mouth open so I demoed it earlier when the mouth opens
up it is on a hinge the mandible if it opens up then it'll open up like this so if we have our
mandible open if we were to draw somebody over that so let's say we've just got a person this
comes down here the nose is like this the nose is also made of cartilage so it is not a bone
there is a nasal bone and the eyebrow would be right here the ear would be right here if you'd
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so if we've got a person looking from the side like this when the mandible moves the
bottom of the face will move and stretch as well again take this mandible put it on that
hinge joint and just open it up the jaw goes back and the mouth like stretches up it opens
but our mandible will stretch open this is what we call squash and stretch so don't forget that the
jaw extends when we open up our mouths right it doesn't say the same width if this is the length
when it is opened it's a lot longer than when it's closed so we want to make sure that we are opening
that jaw nice and wide it's the same deal here if we've got like this person facing forwards
from the front this is going to be a little bit trickier because even though that the mandible is
opening it is opening and hinging backwards so what you have to do is you have to approximate
for that so your lower jaw will open up so you can see the back points of the teeth you can see
your molars right it's a curve your mandible is curved and that will be represented by how many
of your teeth you can see I'm not going to bother counting them so it opens backwards
like that what this looks like is a face from the front so if we've got the face looking forwards
like this we've got this guy here when the mouth opens the jaw will hinge open chin open up wider
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