@@LinesSensei 🤣🤣🤣. That... Was a good one. You're literally speed running TH-cam rn. More grease to your rollerblades. Also, desperately waiting for a hair and boobs tutorial.
@@montireddragon927well personally, colouring the lineart should be easy, In my case maybe you could try to alpha lock your line art layer, and just colour it with the colour you want (you SHOULD have your colour and lineart layer separated 😅) and in terms of easy access to the colours, im not too sure as most of the time I use the eye dropper
I feel like a random Lines Video with 2000 clicks popping up on my feed was just as much a blessing for me as it was for him. Absolute treasure trove of content right here and I'm glad to be on the ride
Hi sensei, your “how to draw female body really helped a lot. Could you make a video on how to draw the body in dynamic poses. That’s one thing i struggle with. Thank you for posting these amazing tutorials.
I would recommend using reference a lot for that. I'm often get stuck with no inspiration so I just use reference for interesting poses or just something that would get me drawing and not just sitting there empty.
that is an excellent request, and I absolutely plan to do bodies in motion and perspective, that's going to be after level 1 which was just getting people familiar with the form before we start doing anything to adventurous with it. so yes, they are in the pipeline, I promise
Amazing, thank you! I would also greatly appreciate an advice on how to practice to get good at drawing these poses and characters in general. What to draw and how detailed? Do studies? Cram croquis? Is photo reference a must? Can I learn from stylized art (manga/anime -- this is my goal) and just bridge the gap with real anatomy reference? Etc. (EDIT: Sorry if it's been already covered in other videos, I just started watching and still catching up!)
One of the things I enjoy about drawing heads is that it's good when it's not consistent because same face syndrome can cause perfectionists to overload.
This man filling the gap that MikeyMegaMega left. This is such a good video. Been attempting to draw and having issues with eyes looking good and this explains how to dig them in and worry more about the rule of 3rds and the eyes will kind of fill in themselves.
@@LinesSenseiwell, it usually takes about 8-9 months before any milk starts being produced anyways- **we aren't talking about the same kind of milk, are we**
Definitely, mikeymegamega never actually worked for me, his method just doesn't help me and it's too intuition based. He just kinda does shit that's magic and expects you to some how follow along. This guy is much more helpful.
@@MALICEM12 Mikey doesn't teach fundamentals he teaches how to draw what the current topic is, so he was never going to walk you through the basics because it's a follow along thing.
@@parystyrell Yeah that's the problem. Even when he's showing "here's how you draw this" he doesn't actually show it. He just expects you to be able to keep up with his skill. It's actually not very helpful alot of the times
Yet again, a masterpiece. I've watched a dozen videos on the topic, read tutorials and guides... But the way you explained the-- gosh *everything*. It's unambiguous, clear and far more intuitive to me now where and how eyes should be drawn, where and how the mouth should be drawn, how to shape the face and head. Again... It feels like you've revealed the true form of a method everybody uses having to work around those steps. Bravo.
I keep rewatching your stuff, and suggestion maybe a nose tutorial as well as different nose types I myself struggle drawing pointy noses from a front view
i started drawing this year and have been drawing every day since jan 1st. some tutorials have helped a bit, but somehow Lines' tutorials have made me make improvements i honestly didnt think i was capable of
I am a little confused by this because Proko put the thought in my head that the brow and side plain touch so I have been using that to figure out where that side plain would go and how far it expands but that rule does not seem to apply here and I was under the impression it applied and worked for everything😅
So nothing absolutely works for absolutely everything. Proco's method works and it works great. My method also works OK. But with any method you are going to find cases where what you want to do, and what the method accommodates will not always meet up. so always treat any method as a starting point and be willing to work outside of it
Hi ive been following your guide step by step. a lot of great information especially linework and shading helped out a lot! but i think youve missed one important step. how to use these rules and measures of body in a more dynamic pose. it would be awesome to have a video in between lesson 1 and 2 that goes a bit more into posing and perspective of said elements. great tutorials, thank you!
thanks, and yes bodies in motion and bodies in perspective are planned, i wanted initially to get people familiar with the form, and then start doing more interesting stuff with it, so stay tuned
This works for everything except Toriyama’s dragon ball art style. Not only are there a ton of iterations, a bunch of Dragon Ball character face anatomies even literally bend space time and break 3D dimensions. Their faces are also scrunched in the middle unlike other art styles, so I had to un-learn everything I practiced before in order to even grasp the fundamentals of Toriyama’s art style.
You want a real mindbender, try Sonic the Hedgehog. His entire head is one merged eyeball with two pupils. There isn't a drawing method that can accommodate that level of lovecraftian insanity.
@@LinesSensei Never thought of that man! I tried drawing sonic today because of you and now I understand why he’s so hard to draw. Anyway, keep making these awesome tutorials; they’re great and still helped me a lot despite the struggles. You’re awesome man
I've been on and off drawing for a couple of years from myself being my worst critic, these videos popped on my recommended and you got me back into drawing after months not doing so, easily one of the best informative art videos I've seen in a while. Keep up the good work!
Someone else had the same issue and I've posted something in the homework section on the discord about it so pop in and have a look and see if it helps
Cheers I've recently begun watching your videos and I feel an urge coming up to do more drawing, and start working the art on a computer. I would however need to invest in a... "drawing app" thingy and optical board and pen.
As someone who isn't a complete beginner but no where near a pro - your vids have been the perfect inbetween of stuff I already know and stuff I should work on, instant subscribe
Love your videos. I'm starting from scratch, it would be very helpful if you could make a playlist in the order that people should watch your videos in.
Wow, this is one of the most intuitive methods for head constructions lines I've ever seen, your explanation is super helpful while also being straight-forward. Amazing how much depth in the form you can get from such simple lines, definitely need to try this. Thank you!
Thank you I'm glad it works so well for you if you do decide to share your work we've got a discord with people who would love to see it, myself included
I added this video to my watch later thanks to the cute and funny thumbnail. I instantly subscribed and sincerely wished my procrastination hadn't delayed me this long right after watching this esteemed tutorial
Hey man thanks for this video, I never measured my heads and features before, I pretty much eyeballed it and got mixed results, but I think I'm seeing some improvement when i try to draw heads using this method, thank you.
dude your vid’s came and literally fixed the exact problems i was having, much thanks, also i’ve been binging your videos and it’s like i’m in a learning trance 20+ mins flew by like it was nothing!
Idk, I can't really follow the actual demonstration ("Female Head instruction") at all. The "channels" are super vague and the audio is like at least 10 seconds off from what is currently happening in the video, making it super confusing to try and follow. And then I can't even get the same result anyway cause it's not a video about drawing hair or stuff. Feels odd to not show the result as nude heads here. Feels like that should be the part of the video where what's broken down into small parts before gets combined, while re-emphasising each part, but ends up just speeding through it or something But judging by all the other comments guess I'm the only one with an issue here
That's really good feedback, the audio being out of sync I'm not sure what happened there that's something I'm still working on, I'm still fairly new to video editing and publishing. As far as the breakdown into smaller more easy to digest pieces, that's also something I'm working on so I'm glad to hear the efforts going to the right place. Again, that's really great feedback and I appreciate it
This breakdown makes everything so much easier and stress free to think about. Starting out as an artists is so hard when you don't know anything and there's so much noise of videos and tips and rules and guidelines as soon as you try to learn that it can just overwhelm me. This shows clearly that even if I don't want to do full on realism it's still safe and correct to learn these guidelines and specific fundamentals. This removes so much headache of trying to figure out what the right thing to learn is without scrambling from one thing to the next and giving up.
There are points in this where you lost me as your mouse / pointer gets lost in the background and I'm spending more time LOOKING for what you're working on rather than following along with you. 11:00
Yes, I was a bit worried that I had too much going on on screen for it to be easily recognizable. my hope is that the general step is visible across all the images and that the voice helps clarify what I'm working on in that given moment, and what the viewer should be focusing on
Heads are certainly tricky. I thought I was doing great heads on my own, but then I see there are so many ways they can be better. Yet, even with this tutorial, I feel like I'm struggling to really get these right. Especially the eye line, brow angle and such. And it's weird, because he explains it perfectly fine, so I can't understand why mine just don't seem to come out like these. I also don't really know where to place the eyes, exactly. I notice on some of the sketches here (male faces), the eyes are on the eye line, but the second one is below it, the third one is above it. Does that kind of thing just involve knowing the character you're drawing, or is there a method I'm missing here? I know some things just take practice, but if I practice doing it wrong, that's not gonna help. Also, question, would it be beneficial to "reverse engineer" the techniques shown here, in the sense of trying to apply some of these guide lines into the kind of method one may have self-taught themselves to see if the shapes hold up and slowly make adjustments as needed? Or is that not a viable tactic for learning this? It's just a thought I had while practicing.
So those are both very good questions. On the first question about placing the eyes, if the eyes are further up the head it will give the face a very stoic or brutish appearance, end of the eyes are placed lower down it will make the face look more feminine or more childish. Pretty much any height is valid, but understand that it will stylize the face and also produce a different impression in the viewer. As far as reverse engineering the process goes, I'd encourage you to take on any parts you feel work modify them in any way you see fit, everything I go through in my videos is a suggestion what you do with it and how you apply it is going to be up to you to decide. I hope that helps
Your videos are great and very informative. Would you be willing to make one showing an easy way to draw kawaii / chibi figures? From 1, 1.5 and 2 heads high also variations of simple hands, feet. Thanks and I can't wait to see your next video
Thank you for your work especially the fact that you took your valuable time to even prepare homework to be done, I can’t appreciate your efforts enough, i hope this will finally help me understand how to draw faces because they seem to be my biggest weakness.
They can be really challenging, I hope this works for you and if you do feel like sharing your results I'd love to see them if you want to put them in the discord
All of these videos are wonderfully helpful, thank you! However, you should probably know that the visual for the "boys and mens heads" portion cuts off early and desyncs with the audio as the "female head instruction" starts at 10:23
Yes someone else pointed that out I don't know how to fix that after I've published the video, and it looked fine in the preview so I'm not sure what happened
line drawing is another thing a lot of people have asked about. I do intend to make a video about it once I've covered the basics of figure drawing so stay tuned
Can you please give some advice regarding your pressure sensitivity settings? I have a consistent issue why my drawings don’t end up well due to me not being able to effectively vary my line width, though I really struggle with finding settings I can adapt to. I’m not even sure what kind of curve I should go for, and I haven’t made any decent progress in a couple of months because of this. Any help will be extremely appreciated!
So I don't have pressure sensitivity controlling line width. For me the pressure sensitivity only controls the transparency of the stroke. So for my line art I just have high smoothing standard thickness the entire way, and then I have a second pass with no smoothing on the same brush where I add danca bits in all the crevices and darkest spots to simulate ambient occlusion. But none of these really require anything from my pressure sensitivity. The only steps that do need prices sensitivity some of the effects later on and some of the shading and erasing
I didn’t really understand much about the eye line and dividing it into 3, you put some diagonal lines around the eye line and draw the eyes from there, but when I do it I still can’t put the eyes right, could you please go more in detail about the eye anatomy and how it looks like in different angles?
Yes, in fact you're not the only one to have some challenge in that particular part. I made a second home worksheet to help scaffold that part of it so have a look in the description it should be there now. You can also share your work in the discord where myself and other people can help you more directly
Now THIS is some gourmet shit right here! I was doing a head structure study today (by using the Asaro head along with skull models) and this masterpiece showed up. It also helped me finally get the eye - cheek curve & jawline proportions right too!
i like this method and i'm going to try and practice it, but feedback on the video: it feels like sometimes your spoken steps are out of sync with your drawings. Like at 11:22 your saying to draw a line down the centre line of the face, but the illustration shows you drawing lines down the side of the face. then at 11:28 your drawing another horizontal line, but by the time your talking about this step, the drawing has already moved on. I think its fine to have the demo just be a sped-up recording of clip studio, but it'd be nice if you sped up or slowed down the footage in your video editor software so that it stayed in sync with your spoken steps. I'd also recommend trying to draw more diagrams and things on the side. 'the eyes should be half way down the full length of the head'. ok but what constitutes the full head? like, yeah i'm pretty sure i know what you mean, but its just another little hurdle that's making it harder to tackle the major hurdle of following the video and drawing the head. Otherwise nice video, like usual. i love your art style and you seem to upload really frequently, so i'm looking forward to seeing what you put out next.
Yeah I did have some trouble getting the sync right on this video, the file comes out fine when I play it on my local machine but for whatever reason when I upload it to TH-cam there's a section that falls out of sync.
Almost everything in this. The only thing missing is the part when you make a saturates orange blurry line on the shadows border. Adds a lot and would love U to explain this part of the process…
Haaa, this is a tough one, I feel like I keep running out of space within the initial sphere of the head and so it looks all rather squished. I'm usually drawing in a sketchbook and try to fill out the pages with multiple attempts, should I draw at a larger scale for this one?
I found it a little difficult to follow this one. I think because your initial covering of the guiding principles is said at the same speed as the following commentary on it. Maybe my adhd devalues that information because it feels like you're itching to get onto something else. But once i slowed it down and went back a few times there are some great insights here. I noticed that often I confuse the jaw bone and the cheek bone, because one or the other is often hidden behind the face or is not part of the outline in front of the face, understood this by observing your use of the jaw thirds
In the head instructions it's kinda weird because what u say it's behind of what u do on the drawings, and that is kinda weird for who's watching, mainly for no English speakers
Don't worry too much about getting the circle right you can gradually tune that shape as you work on the sketch. So never get too hung up on getting the construction shapes geometrically perfect, you have time and future steps to adjust it as you go
Oh right, yes that's me adjusting the levels under image adjustment. I have a video on post processing that goes over this in detail, I'd link you directly but I'm out on my phone RN I'm a the one with the elf in.the red bikini in the thumbnail
Watching your videos has given me a hope to learn how to draw fluently; even as I struggle w/ the very basics of shapes and not just immediately giving up on sketches that don't immediately look like they do in my mind
Thanks for the video! You definitely know what you are talking about and you are very thorough with your explanations. I feel like I learned a lot! One request / criticism that I would like to share is that I find myself struggling to follow along some times due to the editing. There are many times where the stage in the drawing that you are in is either behind or after the commentary. For example, I really struggle to follow the female head instruction section because it is not clear which line you are talking about. I also think that it would help to annotate either through editing or in clip studio which lines and shapes you were referencing. For example, which line is the brow line? Which line is the caved in line? etc. I found myself having to do that myself because I just wasn't sure why certain lines were drawn, and then which line is which. Either way, thanks for the lesson!!
Thank you, and yes that's really good criticism I'm very new at making videos and video editing so a lot of things are challenge, with timing being one of the more challenging parts of it overall. It's definitely something I'm working on
I know, newgrounds is a bit old fashioned but it's the last website left there isn't selling the last stuff as AI training data. It feels like a Terminator movie where everyone's hiding in the old disused subway tunnels so that the robots don't find us
This video is 100% clear, but I think the most difficult part, is to understand when the angle of eye sockets is placed correctly. The rest of the video is super cool and detailed, insta followed your channel c:
You're quite right alot of other people have experienced challenge with that I'm thinking of giving out a bit more attention when I do a video focused on just drawing eyes. I also made an updated homework sheet to go with this one that has a more scaffolded approach to constructing that part of the face. The updated homework sheet is in the description now
@@LinesSensei Thank you so much 💙 I'm going through a super tough period, but as soon as I can, I want to be more present in discord server + I want to follow the homeworks properly c: you're a great teacher 🙏
It’s late night I been sketching and practicing lately but the attempts have left a bad taste this is exactly what I needed THANK YOU FOR SHOWING UP IN MY RECOMMEND 🙏🙏
The video is nice. My only gripe is the syncing is a bit off in certain parts which can get a bit confusing at times. Other than that, a great tutorial.
I absolutely do plan on making a video about distance and atmospheric perspective. This use of atmospheric perspective local to the figure is not something that actually happens it's just an artistic choice you can make but it functions on the same principle. Essentially the further away something is more particles in the atmosphere light bumps into its way making it more blue less contrasting and less saturated.
This is actually amazing, the normal loomis method i follow doesnt look right when i use it on anime faces but using your method really helped! Thank you so much.
I'm glad you like it, the Loomis method is what this is based off, with the ways I've changed it to use with anime faces. So it's probably best considered to be a Loomis variant
Chotto matte! The man speaks Japanese too!? You can't just magically pop up like this with no information or anything and just do this like it's nothing! Oh wait... you just did... huh. *speechless*
@@LinesSensei あ、すみません。まだ勉強な日本語をします。あまりじょうずではありません Ah, excuse me. I'm still learning Japanese. It's not *that* good. ...that said, I did recognise there was something different about it, I assumed it was just casually speaking 🤔 I didn't actually fully understand the statement though 😅
Just discovered you, thank you so much for uploading. Could you do a tutorial on drawing hair? There's not enough out there especially for drawing men's hairstyles.
That video is like 60% done currently. I recorded the footage for most of the instruction I'm halfway through the speedpaint bit for the end, I just have to do the voice over and edit so give it three to five days maybe?
Hmm interesting, I’m just curious on how did you use the selection tool for colouring and shading, as even though I have seen many professional do it, I personally do not know how to work with it at all 😅
So, i set the flats layer as the selection source, and then I set the magic wand the only reference the selection source layer. CSP has this, so does Sai. some software like PS doesn't, but in that case you can just set the magic wand to only reference the active layer, and then switch to your flat layer when you want to make a selection. Then switch back to whatever layer you're working on. one bit of advice that can help is make sure you lock your flats layer or you will accidentally select it and then start painting on your flats instead of painting on your shading or whatever layer
So toriyama's eyes I just very stylized realise so they dug in like normalise the only thing that's really different would be how tall they are and how toriyama will draw a much narrower gap between the eyes in the middle but otherwise they're pretty straightforward. If you're having trouble with them feel free to join the discord we have an arts help and critique channel and a lot of people there, myself included who be happy to take part in helping
The eyeline is definitely NOT in the middle of the full height of the head, at least not in the heads you drew, so what did you mean at 11:51? Looks like you’re just moving the middle line down by the same distance from the circle to the chin.
So that is an excellent question. The eyes will be in the midpoint of the head, if you draw them slightly above that line the figure will look brutish and caveman like. If you draw them below that line they'll look more childlike or more feminine. I choose to draw them at or below but there are other choices you can make, those are style choices for you to decide where you want them to be
thank you, and if you do decide to have a go we've got a great discord you can share your work on, and i'm planning to do a very beginner focused series further down the line as well so stay tuned
@@LinesSensei already in the discord 👍🏾, although I’m a beginner 3d artist not exactly in line(pun not intended 😀) with your work. I don’t know how 3d art will help in the community
This man is literally the perfect TH-camr. Appears out of nowhere, posts satisfying tutorials and blows up like TNT
I even have the bagpipes pre-prepared for my inevitable apology video
@@LinesSensei 🤣🤣🤣. That... Was a good one.
You're literally speed running TH-cam rn. More grease to your rollerblades. Also, desperately waiting for a hair and boobs tutorial.
Any tips on CSP about Coloring Line art and ways to set your settings so the colors are where we want them to go etc ?
How his channel hasn't exploded yet is an injustice of the highest order.
@@montireddragon927well personally, colouring the lineart should be easy, In my case maybe you could try to alpha lock your line art layer, and just colour it with the colour you want (you SHOULD have your colour and lineart layer separated 😅) and in terms of easy access to the colours, im not too sure as most of the time I use the eye dropper
dude is speedruning the best art content on youtube.
That is very nice of you to say I appreciate it, especially given how absolutely god-mode some of the artists are on youtube
I feel like a random Lines Video with 2000 clicks popping up on my feed was just as much a blessing for me as it was for him.
Absolute treasure trove of content right here and I'm glad to be on the ride
@@kchnbrn for me as well, even with after watch a bunch of other tutorials this (and the one about body) he made are by far the most helpful for me.
Hi sensei, your “how to draw female body really helped a lot. Could you make a video on how to draw the body in dynamic poses. That’s one thing i struggle with. Thank you for posting these amazing tutorials.
I would recommend using reference a lot for that. I'm often get stuck with no inspiration so I just use reference for interesting poses or just something that would get me drawing and not just sitting there empty.
that is an excellent request, and I absolutely plan to do bodies in motion and perspective, that's going to be after level 1 which was just getting people familiar with the form before we start doing anything to adventurous with it.
so yes, they are in the pipeline, I promise
Amazing, thank you! I would also greatly appreciate an advice on how to practice to get good at drawing these poses and characters in general. What to draw and how detailed? Do studies? Cram croquis? Is photo reference a must? Can I learn from stylized art (manga/anime -- this is my goal) and just bridge the gap with real anatomy reference? Etc.
(EDIT: Sorry if it's been already covered in other videos, I just started watching and still catching up!)
Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Figure Drawing is a great book about this!
He's better at men than women though
yeah that book is excellent, Burne Sempai don't miss
One of the things I enjoy about drawing heads is that it's good when it's not consistent because same face syndrome can cause perfectionists to overload.
Agreed 100%
It's best to be deliberate with your inconsistencies and be able to draw the same character multiple times as well as other distinct characters.
"Im hoping to make this a full-time job" Bro you draw like this already is your fulltime job, amazing work bro.
I should probably clarify I mean a full time job like where I can afford things like food and shelter
@@LinesSensei Well-fed artist? That's a nice fantasy...
@@UserHey not unless very specific furry art
This man filling the gap that MikeyMegaMega left.
This is such a good video. Been attempting to draw and having issues with eyes looking good and this explains how to dig them in and worry more about the rule of 3rds and the eyes will kind of fill in themselves.
I'm sure he'll be back from the shops with the milk any day now
@@LinesSenseiwell, it usually takes about 8-9 months before any milk starts being produced anyways- **we aren't talking about the same kind of milk, are we**
Definitely, mikeymegamega never actually worked for me, his method just doesn't help me and it's too intuition based. He just kinda does shit that's magic and expects you to some how follow along. This guy is much more helpful.
@@MALICEM12 Mikey doesn't teach fundamentals he teaches how to draw what the current topic is, so he was never going to walk you through the basics because it's a follow along thing.
@@parystyrell
Yeah that's the problem. Even when he's showing "here's how you draw this" he doesn't actually show it. He just expects you to be able to keep up with his skill. It's actually not very helpful alot of the times
Yet again, a masterpiece. I've watched a dozen videos on the topic, read tutorials and guides... But the way you explained the-- gosh *everything*. It's unambiguous, clear and far more intuitive to me now where and how eyes should be drawn, where and how the mouth should be drawn, how to shape the face and head. Again... It feels like you've revealed the true form of a method everybody uses having to work around those steps. Bravo.
Wow that's very high praise, I appreciate it and I'm very glad it clicked with you, thank you very much
I keep rewatching your stuff, and suggestion maybe a nose tutorial as well as different nose types I myself struggle drawing pointy noses from a front view
That's a very good suggestion I think that could be a good short video idea I appreciate it, I'll add it to the list
I love that I can stream on your discord, I have met so many new friends and artists there. Cheers and thank you Lines. Amazing as always
That's wonderful to hear, I'm really happy it's working out so well for you!
i started drawing this year and have been drawing every day since jan 1st. some tutorials have helped a bit, but somehow Lines' tutorials have made me make improvements i honestly didnt think i was capable of
Keep it up!
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Thank you for watching I appreciate it
aint even artist but came here to appreciate art
Thank you the appreciation is much... appreciated
Ah yes, the almighty algorithm had brought me here.
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I am a little confused by this because Proko put the thought in my head that the brow and side plain touch so I have been using that to figure out where that side plain would go and how far it expands but that rule does not seem to apply here and I was under the impression it applied and worked for everything😅
So nothing absolutely works for absolutely everything. Proco's method works and it works great. My method also works OK. But with any method you are going to find cases where what you want to do, and what the method accommodates will not always meet up. so always treat any method as a starting point and be willing to work outside of it
Content so good i'm tempted to archive it so it won't someday just disappear from the internet
As long as Google doesn't disappear we should be fine.
Hi ive been following your guide step by step. a lot of great information especially linework and shading helped out a lot! but i think youve missed one important step. how to use these rules and measures of body in a more dynamic pose. it would be awesome to have a video in between lesson 1 and 2 that goes a bit more into posing and perspective of said elements. great tutorials, thank you!
thanks, and yes bodies in motion and bodies in perspective are planned, i wanted initially to get people familiar with the form, and then start doing more interesting stuff with it, so stay tuned
i am once again commenting to help your videos gain favor with the algorithm gods.
algorithm be praised
Sensei should get 3.5 million subscribers for his incredible, understanding and good tutorials than I've ever seen
That's really nice of you to say, the positivity means a lot to me
3.5?, even 5m wouldent be enough for how good these tutorials are
This works for everything except Toriyama’s dragon ball art style. Not only are there a ton of iterations, a bunch of Dragon Ball character face anatomies even literally bend space time and break 3D dimensions. Their faces are also scrunched in the middle unlike other art styles, so I had to un-learn everything I practiced before in order to even grasp the fundamentals of Toriyama’s art style.
You want a real mindbender, try Sonic the Hedgehog. His entire head is one merged eyeball with two pupils. There isn't a drawing method that can accommodate that level of lovecraftian insanity.
@@LinesSensei Never thought of that man! I tried drawing sonic today because of you and now I understand why he’s so hard to draw. Anyway, keep making these awesome tutorials; they’re great and still helped me a lot despite the struggles. You’re awesome man
those are some very.. um cultured artstyle choices in these thumbnails mister Lines.
I am who I am
I've been on and off drawing for a couple of years from myself being my worst critic, these videos popped on my recommended and you got me back into drawing after months not doing so, easily one of the best informative art videos I've seen in a while.
Keep up the good work!
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Hey lines, could you maybe doa shading tutorial? When I try shading, it just makes it look like my characters have vitiligo!
that's absolutely on the list, and getting closer every week!
Hey, im having trouble doing "Line 1: Upward tilted" from the homework, can someone who has done it share it with me, please?
Someone else had the same issue and I've posted something in the homework section on the discord about it so pop in and have a look and see if it helps
Cheers I've recently begun watching your videos and I feel an urge coming up to do more drawing, and start working the art on a computer. I would however need to invest in a... "drawing app" thingy and optical board and pen.
thats great to hear, and remember, krita is free and a second hand Huion is less than a hundred bucks!
As someone who isn't a complete beginner but no where near a pro - your vids have been the perfect inbetween of stuff I already know and stuff I should work on, instant subscribe
Can't watch yet, but I really hope this video helps me shape my faces. The chin is hard
i hope so too, let us know how you go
Love your videos. I'm starting from scratch, it would be very helpful if you could make a playlist in the order that people should watch your videos in.
The explanation for the "Female Head Instruction" chapter is desynced with what is happening onscreen making it disorienting.
Yeah I noticed that too I have no idea why that happened it was fine in the preview, I guess one of nature's mysteries
Do you have discord server to join ?
check the description.
@@clichebonaparte2601ohh ops 😅 thanks 🙏🏻 😊
Wow, this is one of the most intuitive methods for head constructions lines I've ever seen, your explanation is super helpful while also being straight-forward. Amazing how much depth in the form you can get from such simple lines, definitely need to try this. Thank you!
Thank you I'm glad it works so well for you if you do decide to share your work we've got a discord with people who would love to see it, myself included
Hi sensei I’m struggling with drawing the right circle do you have any tips or recommendations the jaw also is off for some reason
I just discovered your channel and the content are insane thank a bunch
Thank you, I'm really glad it helped
I added this video to my watch later thanks to the cute and funny thumbnail. I instantly subscribed and sincerely wished my procrastination hadn't delayed me this long right after watching this esteemed tutorial
Well I'm glad you did get to watch it when you did, I hope you enjoyed it
Hey man thanks for this video, I never measured my heads and features before, I pretty much eyeballed it and got mixed results, but I think I'm seeing some improvement when i try to draw heads using this method, thank you.
That's awesome I'm delighted to hear it
Any hope for a clothing tutorial anytime soon?
There is absolutely I'm planning to do hair and then hands and feet after this and then the one following that should be clothing, hopefully!
these art tutorials really been remotivating me to draw
That's wonderful to hear I'm delighted to hear it's helped
dude your vid’s came and literally fixed the exact problems i was having, much thanks, also i’ve been binging your videos and it’s like i’m in a learning trance 20+ mins flew by like it was nothing!
That's awesome I'm delighted to hear it was helpful
2:05 shugo chara mentioned???!!
My sacrifice to Pele paid off cuz this is a godsend
The footballer?
@@LinesSensei The Volcano
OK, you know this is a confident artist when they show you the rough process from scratch! Great stuff!
That's very nice of you to say, thank you
Do you have a pdf with the proportions?
I don't have any written documentation for it. If I do ever make a book I'll let you know !
Idk, I can't really follow the actual demonstration ("Female Head instruction") at all. The "channels" are super vague and the audio is like at least 10 seconds off from what is currently happening in the video, making it super confusing to try and follow.
And then I can't even get the same result anyway cause it's not a video about drawing hair or stuff. Feels odd to not show the result as nude heads here.
Feels like that should be the part of the video where what's broken down into small parts before gets combined, while re-emphasising each part, but ends up just speeding through it or something
But judging by all the other comments guess I'm the only one with an issue here
That's really good feedback, the audio being out of sync I'm not sure what happened there that's something I'm still working on, I'm still fairly new to video editing and publishing.
As far as the breakdown into smaller more easy to digest pieces, that's also something I'm working on so I'm glad to hear the efforts going to the right place.
Again, that's really great feedback and I appreciate it
This breakdown makes everything so much easier and stress free to think about. Starting out as an artists is so hard when you don't know anything and there's so much noise of videos and tips and rules and guidelines as soon as you try to learn that it can just overwhelm me. This shows clearly that even if I don't want to do full on realism it's still safe and correct to learn these guidelines and specific fundamentals. This removes so much headache of trying to figure out what the right thing to learn is without scrambling from one thing to the next and giving up.
Wasnt expecting the Japanese lol
wait till you hear my Spanish inquisition
Thank you for sharing your knowledge Sensei! 🙏
Thank you for watching the video I appreciate it!
There are points in this where you lost me
as your mouse / pointer gets lost in the
background and I'm spending more time
LOOKING for what you're working on
rather than following along with you.
11:00
Yes, I was a bit worried that I had too much going on on screen for it to be easily recognizable.
my hope is that the general step is visible across all the images and that the voice helps clarify what I'm working on in that given moment, and what the viewer should be focusing on
Man what is the Music you used in 26:35 i really want that....
OK! here's the deal :"I'll subscribe to your channel, and you do you !" (Make more art tutorial) SENSEI!🥰
I feel like I can deal with that, you're on
Heads are certainly tricky. I thought I was doing great heads on my own, but then I see there are so many ways they can be better. Yet, even with this tutorial, I feel like I'm struggling to really get these right. Especially the eye line, brow angle and such. And it's weird, because he explains it perfectly fine, so I can't understand why mine just don't seem to come out like these. I also don't really know where to place the eyes, exactly. I notice on some of the sketches here (male faces), the eyes are on the eye line, but the second one is below it, the third one is above it. Does that kind of thing just involve knowing the character you're drawing, or is there a method I'm missing here?
I know some things just take practice, but if I practice doing it wrong, that's not gonna help.
Also, question, would it be beneficial to "reverse engineer" the techniques shown here, in the sense of trying to apply some of these guide lines into the kind of method one may have self-taught themselves to see if the shapes hold up and slowly make adjustments as needed? Or is that not a viable tactic for learning this? It's just a thought I had while practicing.
So those are both very good questions.
On the first question about placing the eyes, if the eyes are further up the head it will give the face a very stoic or brutish appearance, end of the eyes are placed lower down it will make the face look more feminine or more childish.
Pretty much any height is valid, but understand that it will stylize the face and also produce a different impression in the viewer.
As far as reverse engineering the process goes, I'd encourage you to take on any parts you feel work modify them in any way you see fit, everything I go through in my videos is a suggestion what you do with it and how you apply it is going to be up to you to decide.
I hope that helps
Your videos are great and very informative. Would you be willing to make one showing an easy way to draw kawaii / chibi figures? From 1, 1.5 and 2 heads high also variations of simple hands, feet. Thanks and I can't wait to see your next video
That's a good idea and shouldn't be too hard to make I'll definitely add that to the list
Wow this is so informative. Thank you so much - was just getting back into art and this is such a helpful study!
Glad it was helpful! If you do have any results you're particularly proud of, I'd love to see them if you want to post them in the discord
Thank you for your work especially the fact that you took your valuable time to even prepare homework to be done, I can’t appreciate your efforts enough, i hope this will finally help me understand how to draw faces because they seem to be my biggest weakness.
They can be really challenging, I hope this works for you and if you do feel like sharing your results I'd love to see them if you want to put them in the discord
All of these videos are wonderfully helpful, thank you! However, you should probably know that the visual for the "boys and mens heads" portion cuts off early and desyncs with the audio as the "female head instruction" starts at 10:23
Yes someone else pointed that out I don't know how to fix that after I've published the video, and it looked fine in the preview so I'm not sure what happened
I'd be interested to hear how you'd go about emphasizing the importance of line weight when it comes to characters.
line drawing is another thing a lot of people have asked about. I do intend to make a video about it once I've covered the basics of figure drawing so stay tuned
@@LinesSensei Looking forward to it, LinesSensei!
This video made me realize how much I don't know about Anatomy
I felt the same way making it, I don't think the journey ever ends
I use your tutorial as reference to model my character in Skyrim : >
Thanks a LOT for all those presentation of structure under surface!
Thank you I'm glad you found it helpful
Can you please give some advice regarding your pressure sensitivity settings? I have a consistent issue why my drawings don’t end up well due to me not being able to effectively vary my line width, though I really struggle with finding settings I can adapt to. I’m not even sure what kind of curve I should go for, and I haven’t made any decent progress in a couple of months because of this. Any help will be extremely appreciated!
So I don't have pressure sensitivity controlling line width. For me the pressure sensitivity only controls the transparency of the stroke. So for my line art I just have high smoothing standard thickness the entire way, and then I have a second pass with no smoothing on the same brush where I add danca bits in all the crevices and darkest spots to simulate ambient occlusion. But none of these really require anything from my pressure sensitivity. The only steps that do need prices sensitivity some of the effects later on and some of the shading and erasing
I didn’t really understand much about the eye line and dividing it into 3, you put some diagonal lines around the eye line and draw the eyes from there, but when I do it I still can’t put the eyes right, could you please go more in detail about the eye anatomy and how it looks like in different angles?
Yes, in fact you're not the only one to have some challenge in that particular part. I made a second home worksheet to help scaffold that part of it so have a look in the description it should be there now. You can also share your work in the discord where myself and other people can help you more directly
Now THIS is some gourmet shit right here! I was doing a head structure study today (by using the Asaro head along with skull models) and this masterpiece showed up. It also helped me finally get the eye - cheek curve & jawline proportions right too!
That's great to hear I'm really happy it helps
i like this method and i'm going to try and practice it, but feedback on the video: it feels like sometimes your spoken steps are out of sync with your drawings. Like at 11:22 your saying to draw a line down the centre line of the face, but the illustration shows you drawing lines down the side of the face. then at 11:28 your drawing another horizontal line, but by the time your talking about this step, the drawing has already moved on.
I think its fine to have the demo just be a sped-up recording of clip studio, but it'd be nice if you sped up or slowed down the footage in your video editor software so that it stayed in sync with your spoken steps.
I'd also recommend trying to draw more diagrams and things on the side. 'the eyes should be half way down the full length of the head'. ok but what constitutes the full head? like, yeah i'm pretty sure i know what you mean, but its just another little hurdle that's making it harder to tackle the major hurdle of following the video and drawing the head.
Otherwise nice video, like usual. i love your art style and you seem to upload really frequently, so i'm looking forward to seeing what you put out next.
Yeah I did have some trouble getting the sync right on this video, the file comes out fine when I play it on my local machine but for whatever reason when I upload it to TH-cam there's a section that falls out of sync.
Almost everything in this. The only thing missing is the part when you make a saturates orange blurry line on the shadows border. Adds a lot and would love U to explain this part of the process…
So I actually went over that in a separate video I'll give you a link to the video at the right timestamp th-cam.com/video/qzbhm4UkYdA/w-d-xo.html
where has this man been all my life
You're very much appreciated thank you man. That is a sub from me.
Thank you I really appreciate that
Blue girl is best girl.
they always are
I wish someone would actually talk about the video instead of other videos they've watched
Hey so long as we're talking about art I see that as an absolute win
Well done on the face tutorial please may you do a how to draw hair tutorial I need it so much THANK YOU
It's like 60% done couple more days we should be there
Haaa, this is a tough one, I feel like I keep running out of space within the initial sphere of the head and so it looks all rather squished. I'm usually drawing in a sketchbook and try to fill out the pages with multiple attempts, should I draw at a larger scale for this one?
Whatever scale makes you comfortable is the right one!
I found it a little difficult to follow this one. I think because your initial covering of the guiding principles is said at the same speed as the following commentary on it. Maybe my adhd devalues that information because it feels like you're itching to get onto something else. But once i slowed it down and went back a few times there are some great insights here. I noticed that often I confuse the jaw bone and the cheek bone, because one or the other is often hidden behind the face or is not part of the outline in front of the face, understood this by observing your use of the jaw thirds
that's great feedback, and yeah pacing is something I'm still struggling with
In the head instructions it's kinda weird because what u say it's behind of what u do on the drawings, and that is kinda weird for who's watching, mainly for no English speakers
whats thats sketcher pencil? im really curius bc it looks sick, great video btw
That's just the default hard edged round brush, nothing special I promise.
Wake the fuck up samurai! new Linessensei tut just dropped
big issue for me isto draw those circular guide lines withing the circle. They always feel like i placed them wrong.
Don't worry too much about getting the circle right you can gradually tune that shape as you work on the sketch. So never get too hung up on getting the construction shapes geometrically perfect, you have time and future steps to adjust it as you go
can you explain from this part 34:26 .. the deep fried thing doesnt show up on your screen so idk what you doing
Oh right, yes that's me adjusting the levels under image adjustment.
I have a video on post processing that goes over this in detail, I'd link you directly but I'm out on my phone RN
I'm a the one with the elf in.the red bikini in the thumbnail
I really like your instruction, can you make a painting instruction video please?
That is absolutely on the list already so stay tuned
TYSM u are a great teacher, keep cooking 🗿👍🏻
thankyou i really appreciate that, i will do my best to "cook" more
Thanks youre amazing
No, you're amazing!
I'm late, Excellent video again Man
theres no early, no late, i'm just happy people are here
@@LinesSensei and thus, why you're the Goat
Watching your videos has given me a hope to learn how to draw fluently; even as I struggle w/ the very basics of shapes and not just immediately giving up on sketches that don't immediately look like they do in my mind
I'm delighted to hear that it's giving you hope thank you for letting me know and good luck with your art journey
Thanks for the video! You definitely know what you are talking about and you are very thorough with your explanations. I feel like I learned a lot!
One request / criticism that I would like to share is that I find myself struggling to follow along some times due to the editing. There are many times where the stage in the drawing that you are in is either behind or after the commentary.
For example, I really struggle to follow the female head instruction section because it is not clear which line you are talking about.
I also think that it would help to annotate either through editing or in clip studio which lines and shapes you were referencing. For example, which line is the brow line? Which line is the caved in line? etc.
I found myself having to do that myself because I just wasn't sure why certain lines were drawn, and then which line is which.
Either way, thanks for the lesson!!
Thank you, and yes that's really good criticism I'm very new at making videos and video editing so a lot of things are challenge, with timing being one of the more challenging parts of it overall.
It's definitely something I'm working on
@@LinesSensei If you are new at making videos then you are already doing really well.
Excited for future lessons! :)
Are those newgrounds links? Is it the 2000s? Awesome!
I know, newgrounds is a bit old fashioned but it's the last website left there isn't selling the last stuff as AI training data.
It feels like a Terminator movie where everyone's hiding in the old disused subway tunnels so that the robots don't find us
This video is 100% clear, but I think the most difficult part, is to understand when the angle of eye sockets is placed correctly. The rest of the video is super cool and detailed, insta followed your channel c:
You're quite right alot of other people have experienced challenge with that I'm thinking of giving out a bit more attention when I do a video focused on just drawing eyes. I also made an updated homework sheet to go with this one that has a more scaffolded approach to constructing that part of the face. The updated homework sheet is in the description now
@@LinesSensei Thank you so much 💙 I'm going through a super tough period, but as soon as I can, I want to be more present in discord server + I want to follow the homeworks properly c: you're a great teacher 🙏
It’s late night I been sketching and practicing lately but the attempts have left a bad taste this is exactly what I needed THANK YOU FOR SHOWING UP IN MY RECOMMEND 🙏🙏
Thank you for watching it, and thank you to the algorithm for bringing us together
The video is nice. My only gripe is the syncing is a bit off in certain parts which can get a bit confusing at times. Other than that, a great tutorial.
Yeah I'm not sure why that happened the file's fine but whenever I put it into TH-cam it comes out de-synched for that section
Oh man I’m so excited to watch this.
Every one of your videos I learn a great new technique
that's really cool to hear if you want to share your results don't forget to put them up on the discord
Can you show more how to do the atmospheric perspective? I see it alot where a part will look more faded kinda and never knew how to get that effect
I absolutely do plan on making a video about distance and atmospheric perspective. This use of atmospheric perspective local to the figure is not something that actually happens it's just an artistic choice you can make but it functions on the same principle.
Essentially the further away something is more particles in the atmosphere light bumps into its way making it more blue less contrasting and less saturated.
I’m 13 and I’ve been drawing for 8 years and this is super useful TYSM 💗🙏
It's good to see you taking it seriously at such a young age, I'm very excited to see where you go skill wise
@@LinesSensei thank you youre my inspiration 🩷
This is actually amazing, the normal loomis method i follow doesnt look right when i use it on anime faces but using your method really helped! Thank you so much.
I'm glad you like it, the Loomis method is what this is based off, with the ways I've changed it to use with anime faces. So it's probably best considered to be a Loomis variant
thank u linessensei for one more tutorial >:3
Thank you for watching it I appreciate it
certainly the best tutorial i've ever seen ! Thanks !
Thank you, that's really nice if you to say especially given how good some of the tutorials are out there here on TH-cam
Chotto matte! The man speaks Japanese too!? You can't just magically pop up like this with no information or anything and just do this like it's nothing! Oh wait... you just did... huh. *speechless*
Thank you I'm glad no one noticed my terrible kansai accent and pronunciation, and was instead surprised by the fact it was another language
@@LinesSensei あ、すみません。まだ勉強な日本語をします。あまりじょうずではありません
Ah, excuse me. I'm still learning Japanese. It's not *that* good.
...that said, I did recognise there was something different about it, I assumed it was just casually speaking 🤔 I didn't actually fully understand the statement though 😅
Hi Sensei Thank you For The Video Keep It the tutorial The Best Art That I have seen In TH-cam
It's very nice of you to say, especially considering how many good artists there are there. Thank you
Just discovered you, thank you so much for uploading. Could you do a tutorial on drawing hair? There's not enough out there especially for drawing men's hairstyles.
That video is like 60% done currently. I recorded the footage for most of the instruction I'm halfway through the speedpaint bit for the end, I just have to do the voice over and edit so give it three to five days maybe?
@@LinesSensei can't wait!
Hmm interesting, I’m just curious on how did you use the selection tool for colouring and shading, as even though I have seen many professional do it, I personally do not know how to work with it at all 😅
So, i set the flats layer as the selection source, and then I set the magic wand the only reference the selection source layer. CSP has this, so does Sai.
some software like PS doesn't, but in that case you can just set the magic wand to only reference the active layer, and then switch to your flat layer when you want to make a selection.
Then switch back to whatever layer you're working on.
one bit of advice that can help is make sure you lock your flats layer or you will accidentally select it and then start painting on your flats instead of painting on your shading or whatever layer
@@LinesSensei ahh I see, thanks bro this was extremely informative 👍
nice tutorial my issue is the eyes for me i can draw toryama style but realistic i cant draw the eyes on the skull
So toriyama's eyes I just very stylized realise so they dug in like normalise the only thing that's really different would be how tall they are and how toriyama will draw a much narrower gap between the eyes in the middle but otherwise they're pretty straightforward. If you're having trouble with them feel free to join the discord we have an arts help and critique channel and a lot of people there, myself included who be happy to take part in helping
you made it look so easy i thought i could do it, i tried to use the same method and mine look like crap
Don't worry, every time you do them they look better and better.
So keep at it you can definitely do it!
The eyeline is definitely NOT in the middle of the full height of the head, at least not in the heads you drew, so what did you mean at 11:51?
Looks like you’re just moving the middle line down by the same distance from the circle to the chin.
So that is an excellent question.
The eyes will be in the midpoint of the head, if you draw them slightly above that line the figure will look brutish and caveman like. If you draw them below that line they'll look more childlike or more feminine.
I choose to draw them at or below but there are other choices you can make, those are style choices for you to decide where you want them to be
@@LinesSensei Got it, so just the voiceover describing the method but when you draw each you make a decision on where it looks right
Have no idea how to do shades, neither eyes neither mouths neither hair
While I do plan to do a video on shading it's a bit further down the line so stay tuned
I don’t draw but I love watching your tutorials 👍🏾
thank you, and if you do decide to have a go we've got a great discord you can share your work on, and i'm planning to do a very beginner focused series further down the line as well so stay tuned
@@LinesSensei already in the discord 👍🏾, although I’m a beginner 3d artist not exactly in line(pun not intended 😀) with your work. I don’t know how 3d art will help in the community
TH-cam really know what i needed, i was gonna search abt head proportion then this video pop up❤
Awesome I'm delighted it's useful and grateful to the algorithm for sharing it