head angles oh everybody struggles with this one i still struggle with this one head angles is
probably one of the toughest portions of drawing people things that you don't want to do don't
add all your facial features as if they're on a flat plane 100 of the time when you add your
facial features on you usually are taught with the head looking straight forward so that means that
you're drawing everything on a flat plane this works this is fine right because they're looking
perfectly ahead so the lines stay perfectly flat let's say if this person now is looking downwards
and if you continue to draw these lines super flat no right so when we have our head at a different
angle these lines are no longer flat they're no longer perfectly straight take a look at your head
touch it for me for a second you feel that we're three dimensional we curve our heads are a little
bit egg shaped we're a bit ovular even if we have a very strong jaw our heads will curve so that
means that the features that we draw on it should be curved as well so make sure that when we are
drawing our facial features all these other curves that go with the head need to be curved as well
so depending on what angle the head is looking at you need to make sure that your curves match those
angles at angle if it's looking down then those curves will point downwards if you're looking up
then those curves will point upwards right think of a sphere you envision a sphere right in front
of you if you had that sphere if you have it straight from the front this just looks like
a circle if we kind of curve these lines now it feels more three-dimensional because it has curves
attached to it the same thing goes with our head we want to make sure that our heads have curves
don't draw your head as shapes alone only doing shapes like this does not help with angles you're
setting yourself up for failure i'm just putting it out there right now right so don't try your
head as shapes alone if you only use the shapes right that ball and shield method is perfect
if you have your heads at the same angle all the time right um ball and shield is great it works
beautifully if you're doing it for the first time however if you're doing from different angles that
ball and shield becomes obsolete over time you need to learn how to draw your head with different
forms so for me one thing that i learned a lot that really really helped was if we envisioned
like the main cranium there's like a sphere we can vision the front of the face as a bent sheet
of paper so if we have a face kind of looking downwards then we have our head looking down if we
have our head looking upwards bent sheet of paper this curve will continue on the rest of the face
eyes curved upwards like that and now we have the bottom of the chin as well
so don't try your head to shave the lower vision in front of faces bench sheet of paper so this is
the paper method if we think of our sphere for the head touch the sides of your heads
for me if you're not wearing headphones right notice that it does kind of feel a little bit
flatter on the sides of our head so that's the thing that we're trying to draw so if
we kind of identify the side of our head bring this curve down almost like iron man's helmet
this section right here this is where your jawline begins your ear would go right here and then you
draw in all your curves so this flat plane of the head you'll see this in a crash dummies a lot
so that flat plane of the head kind of tells you where your chin should go if you'd like
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works excellently in a lot of different methods but it is a tough one to get the hang of don't
flatten facial features when in half the fourth or seventh so a lot of the times when people draw
their head angles from the side a thing that i see a lot is that they kind of draw this flat little
face here but then they keep everything very very flat right that's super super flat it's like
sometimes i'll see like the nose and it's like that and there's no curve of the face they keep it
perfectly straight there's no curve of the mouth a really big pet peeve of mine that i've seen a
lot of animals they draw the mouth like this all right i don't know why that mouth is like that
that's a very classic animation this is very very exaggerated if you have like a
very very exaggerated sound that's one thing think of like a line a line that kind of cuts
off the face like this this line should have a bunch of things coming out across
from it right if we have our face kind of drawn flat first we have this line here
we should have our eyebrow jutting out the nose juts out the lips jut out the chin juts out
we want to make sure that we have all our facial features in there even if we do have that slightly
more anime-esque face we still want to make sure a lot of different parts of the face jut out
a little bit more regardless if you decide to draw slightly more semi-realistically or if you
draw a little bit more anime mask or if you go a little bit more cartoony with it you want to make
sure that you have a lot of parts of the face that are still jutting out so make sure that you have
those facial features and they jut out if you liked what you saw be sure to hit that
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