i am hating this sm i am useless, but i dont wanna give up so im doing some head studies and giving up on anatomy, too hard, anyways i am gonna watch and been watching this series from proko is this a good stdy and study material?
tried to do both perspectives to try and learn from this initial method gonna try the others and draw along
i also was very bad with loomis method i hate it and i think that make a circle as foundation for a face is useless and not accurate because of the sphere dimension of it
It’s 100x more logic when you put it into a rectangle
You should check on bridgman drawing from life.
Think in boxes
Nope, the skull is mostly a sphere with the cut on bothside. You are not drawing a face with a circle, you are trying to have a skull with a jaw and put details on it. Loomis is a very simple but effective way to learn the basic of a head. Anyways, in this case, the owner of this thread is learning to draw anime faces, not some realistic one. So your method maybe more effective.
@lTheOneI Am not gonna argue for hours because many people love loomis and good for them. I don’t like it and i think it is not logic and awkward. That is a personal taste i prefer Bridgman method . I’m not of the bridgman school and am not making publicity i just think his method is way overrated and give way more accuracy to characters head.
Also bridgman is NOT for manga but it can be adapted.
Loomis is not for manga either but very easy for manga. The difference is that instead of breaking the circle into a conrete polygone skull shape. You just draw hair over it that why 99% of manga characters looks like a balloon with a chin.
To sum up the bridgman method you can draw a head with 3 to 4 angles more or less that you must learn and understand.
So first start with a cube/rectangle depend of face you draw.
Like those pictures.
When you get those angles you learn a lot about perspective. and the lesson i got from it was more helpful than 2 days repeating loomis cueless
But yeah bridgman have big default it is hard and most of his work very old so you need to interpret and understand a lot.
And loomis is also very nice because it is easy. There is no bad choice just personal taste. And certainly that if you have to draw 1000 characters per days then you will prefer a circle with a chin.
ill take a look
I studied both Loomis and Bridgman, and I rarely follow any of the two methods to the T. Use any of those method as introduction for basic shape drawing, as a way to figure out keypoints in building a head, and as a mental reference when you draw head from scratch.
Both require knowledge of drawing boxes in perspective. My advice is to try to understand the reasoning for each line drawn. Don’t follow any method blindly, but try to understand the mindset that is needed in the process.
Basically the mind set is that the artist need be aware of basic 3D shapes drawn and then building a more complex shape on top of that through iterations. Try one method first, learn why the process is like that, and if you don’t think it make sense to you, look for other method.
Hope this helps
