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Published: 2009-07-19 16:02:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 1137; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 0
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So, I realized some time around that I have absolutely NO IDEA about the facial proportions on the average human.Well, I knew that the eyes were in the middle of the head, vaguely, as in: I normally draw a line in the middle of the face when drawing characters. Because, uuuh... well, I knew why, but it was stowed so far away in the back of my mind I had completely forgotten about it.
Shame on me. >.<
So I decided to look around a bit and become wiser. U.U
15 minutes later, I had found 11 different opinions on facial features and ways to place them correctly. And was even more confused than when I started.
Anyhow, I tried to draw a proportioned face with the information i had found, and the help of my art book, which featured yet another method to draw proportions... with the result that I had basically no idea what I was doing and made it up as it went. And I still dont know how the heck I placed the mouth.
The result is this somewhat symmetrical but very scary face. Very scary.
So, I'm asking for someone with an attentive eye and basic art class education to have a look at this and...
help?
No seriously, I really want some help and tips on this, because if you get the basics wrong... well, you get everything wrong.
And there's no way a real person has that large eyes...
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i wish you luck on trying to master the anatomy of human body bits
very nice pic
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I recently learned about it from my art teacher. (Check him out, he's AWESOME [link] )
I'll show you what he taught me. (I'll sketch something out and link it to you if you'd like) Your facial proportions seem generally correct. One thing that was the first thing I noticed was that the eyes were a bit too big. The eyes across a front view face is generally five eyes wide.
For now, this tutorial might help a bit:
[link]
Hope I helped and keep going with your hard work.
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but I don't like how he's telling me to trace -.-
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I'm not one for tracing either, but otherwise, he's giving some pretty good advice. I generally like eyeballing, observing, and measuring versus tracing. Tracing makes it too easy to think the picture as flat versus 3-D.
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Tracing takes the fun out of it.
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HOLY SHIT THAT VIDEO IS GOOD!
An dit's telling me I should've listened to my art book -_-
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I've recently started actually reading every word of art books I read instead of skimming it now. xD
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A lesson learned later than never, yes?
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But best learnt as soon as possible -.-
If i'm ever good enough that I can give tips around I'll include that:
Listen to your artbook,the artbook is your friend. Even if it belonged to your mom and it's 20 years old, listen to it! Old books are wise U.U
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Old ones, I've found are the most useful ones I could have ever found in my life.
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yeah... so true O.o then they still talked about the way the old masters did instead of making new "easier ones" up
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Some newer ones give people a 'shortcut' way that has some backfires in it is what I've found. That, or they give pretty pictures but they don't explain the concepts, the how, etc. Just how they drew the pretty picture which is interesting, but not always helpful.
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Hahahah yeah,
although you can pick up much from knowing HOW a picture was colored, but still... you need basics and foundations somewhere.
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Indeed. In the art college I'm going to for pre-college classes. There's ALWAYS room for foundation classes. And that school has a really big reputation. Goes to show how important it is.
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I'm going to the Academy of Art University for their pre-college program. (I'm LOVING it. 
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the eyes is what irks me off as well, as I said. And since eyes are the reference point for every fucking proportiong...
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oh no not a video! >.< oh well, thanks anyhow, I'll ahve a look at it ^^
and yeah, if you could sketch something out it'd be awesome ^^
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[link]
It's not great, but I tried. When I have a camera, I'll try to do some more.
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Ahahaha. xD I don't know anything about proper proportions, sorry. But good luck figuring it out.
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