TUTORIAL // face planes (Patreon)

This month's tutorial is a much requested topic: Capturing the planes of the face!  I talk about how you can simplify the head into basic geometry in order to convey the planes of a head, and how you can use the Asaro head as a reference. I also run you through a few different art styles that have different ways of conveying this topic! This is a great one for those of you who want to capture more 3-dimensionality in the heads that you draw, or get a more sculpted semi-realistic style like in Arcane. I hope you enjoy it! ✨

The main brushes I use in this video are:

The MaCaLabs HB pencil brush for the initial sketch (there's also a Procreate version)

The hard round brush from my own brush set for blending and painting

Yuming Li's brush set for the smudge brush

Here's the artwork I made in the demo:

Here are some additional tutorials I've made in the past that would be a great supplement to this one:

My guide to stylizing faces: this video runs you through how I construct the basic proportions and features of a stylized face.

Creating interesting & flowy shapes: this is a great resource for understanding how you can modify the shapes of shadows and highlights to get a more organic look.

Statue studies | resource video and challenge: this challenge is a great one to try out if you want to draw heads with a focus on volume. The resource video discusses specific challenges around creating volume-based artwork.

Next to that, I also mention two really helpful resources for studying a planar head:

Interactive male head lighting tool on Artstation

Basic head structure building blocks on SketchFab

 Here's a cheat sheet with the most important information from the video - you can also find a PDF version with clickable links attached to this post!

I hope you enjoy this video ! Feel free to share any future tutorial suggestions in the #tutorial-suggestions channel in the discord server (If you don't know how to join, just follow the steps outlined here) or leave them in a comment below ❤