Hi everyone! Chiken here.
In the last lesson, we created a head and face guide.
In this lesson, we will talk about how to
use the guide to place our facial features
and how to stylize the features in my style.
So we have the head guides from the previous lesson here.
Let's start with the silhouette of the head.
First, the front facing face is pretty straightforward, but
when we turn the head a little bit, like
this, the fat and muscle in the face will
start to affect our silhouette, mainly in the cheek here.
Let's just draw the silhouette, starting
with the forehead and the brow here.
Then we'll go in for the eyes and it will bump out for
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the cheek like this, and then go back in for the mouth.
The rest of the silhouette can be traced pretty closely
to our head guide, like the jaw and ears.
Now let's do it on this head.
And because it's slightly more facing forward, our
lines of the eyebrow and cheek won't be
so exaggerated, but they'll still be there.
And in real life, there's obviously
a roundness to our chins.
But when we stylize our portraits, we
can sharpen the chin a little bit.
And I don't like to go too sharp because I
like to retain just a little bit of that realism,
but it's really up to you.
Now that we drew on the silhouette,
let's just focus on the eyes. For now.
They will roughly be one eye length apart, and I like
to draw them in some sort of Trapezium shape like this.
And to draw them in, I'll just fill in the eyelids and
round out the edges, especially at the end of the eye.
I like to round out that inner part.
And same thing for the other side.
For the eyelashes, you just need to remember that they kind
of come out from the inner part of the eyelid.
So if we draw them curved like this, it can kind
of guide us where and what direction they'll be pointing at.
Same for the lower eyelashes.
And if we want to squint the eyes
a little bit, we can use the lasso
and transform tool, using the warp transform.
Pull it up and it kind of looks
like she's closing her eyes or squinting.
This can help when you're
trying to draw different expressions.
Now let's move on to the eyes from a side view.
When we turn our head to the side, one of our
eyes is going to look smaller because it's further away.
To help us visualize this, we can transform our
trapezium and see how the eyes change in shape,
according to what kind of angles they are at.
We can see how it got shorter and the curve
of the upper eyelid became tighter.
Again for the eyelashes,
visualize them curving outwards from the inner eyelid,
and that can help us with where they are pointing.
Let's try one more angle and turn it even more.
Our trapezium lmost looks like a tilted square now.
And again, same thing with the eyelashes.
Okay, now that we practice the eyes,
let's draw them onto the head guide.
I like to draw the upper eyelids at the same time.
So the left one and the right one first before moving
on to the lower eyelid like this.
And you can see the shape of the top of the trapezium like this...
and the bottom.
And I'll draw a crease for the eyelids...
And we can position the eyebrows on the eyebrow line of the head guide.
And the nose will be located around the bottom of the sphere.
And in anime, it can be as simple as a dot . But I like
to draw on the shape of a pointed nose, and a
circle to represent the flat surface of the nose.
If you're having trouble with the shape, you can
trace the nose bridge line down from the eyebrows
and the mouth which will be around midway between
the bottom of the nose to the chin.
And remember to center it on the face.
I'll just draw in the pupils here...
And the pupils are going to be fairly large.
Rather the eyelids will always be covering part of the pupils.
With the head guides off I'm now just moving things around,
according to what I like. And we can even take the liquify
tool and stylize it a bit by making our
eyes bigger, or making our chin smaller...
Like this.
And already it looks more anime like and less
realistic, but still having the correct proportions.
And now I'll just go ahead and draw
the features on the rest of the heads.
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Maybe we can give her a
different expression with the eyebrows.
Eyebrows are really good at conveying emotion.
Just like this, we can already tell she's kind of angry
So let's kind of give her a frowning
mouth, to give her some of her grimace.
And again, I'll just adjust it
a little with the liquify tool.
Again with the side view here, we can see the cheek
poking out and then going back in.
And I think I'll give her a sort of goofy kind of expression.
And in anime, sometimes we won't draw the inner part of our eyes.
So I'm just gonna erase this part here, and leave it kind of open.
And for the front view,
because perfectly symmetrical eyes are
pretty hard to draw,
I'm just gonna draw the first eye here...
and duplicate it.
Flip it, and we have our second eye.
I'll give her sort of a judgmental expression,
and finally the side view.
Our eyes are gonna be the most squished for the side view.
And that's our faces done
For the mission, complete the faces we started last
lesson, and give them different expressions.
Now that we completed the face and body,
in the next lesson, we'll be moving on to hair.