Quickly Draw Heads with the Loomis Method - Part 1
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- It’s been 6 years since I released my first youtube video on drawing loomis heads and now I think it’s time for a little recap and to give you some new info on it. Subscribe to Proko: bit.ly/SubProko
In this video, I’ll do a few quicksketch studies of the average loomis head from different angles.
Parts 2 and 3 will show you how to use a Loomis Head to fit any head type and an intuitive approach.
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Bro what app do u use to make a circle and line on z photo?
A
Same !
Now I can’t unsee it
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I started my career change as an artist by watching Proko's tutorial series, this was back in 2015. Now, it's 2022, I'm now a professional artist working on a video game studio and it's been a pleasant experience to revisit/relearn stuff from your channel. My humble beginnings started on this channel! Thanks so much for your hard work and dedication!
Any advice for somebody trying to take their first steps into the professional career side of an artist
@@scoob2263I do apologize for the late response, as for my advice, especially when reaching your dreams, there will be always a way (nothing is impossible for a well-determined person) but do understand the process and importance of hard labour & setbacks that will surely come..you cannot always have a shortcut, but there is no magic at all..just keep embracing the pain and the process..keep learning, take baby steps, and be the best of yourself everyday by investing upon thyself. lastly, always value the importance of proper network. If you have a chance to forge a connection with an art professional, don't miss that chance. I hope this helps good luck to your endeavor ;)
@@nicolaizafra9705 wow awesome that you stuck with it!
@@nathaniel5151 thank you
Shall you share your proko premium account?
If you ever feel sad , just remember , you exist in the same timeline as Proko so he could help you achieve your dreams as a drawing artist
Amen
:)
I love that concept.
Your awesome Proko.
Proko: *Draws circle*
Me: *Googles how to draw circle for beginners*
Bruh for real 😂😂😂😂😂😂💔
"First, draw a face, then erase some of the details and then erase the guidlines and you'll have a circle" thank me later
Ahahahah LOLL
th-cam.com/video/C9m9wcAO-sA/w-d-xo.html .
Learn stucture or just practice drawing circles lol
Me,: Alrighty Im Ready!
Proko : draws circle
Pause for 2hours
I feel you😅
HAHAHAHA at least you were able to drew a perfect circle
😄
that first paper cut is the deepest.
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1-what kind of pencil is that
2-who holds a pencil like that
3-why does it work so well
WATCH HIS ART SUPPLY VIDEO, AND HOW TO HOLD A PENCIL VIDEO. GO GO GO RN!
1. Im not sure lol
2. Me lol
3. It gives you (at least me) alot more control of the pencil when you draw with all your fingers
I believe it's just a charcoal pencil. People who draw with their shoulder and not just their wrist hold a pencil like that and that's why it works so well. Using your shoulder allows for a greater range of motion that your wrist alone can't achieve
1- Conte 1710 B
2- everyone? Lol
3- because you draw with your shoulder, it improves hand dexterity, and there is a greater range of motion than what you can achieve with just your wrist.
its called overhand grip
Proko be dropping tips for 6 years and still going
Sounds like Mandingo
It repeats tho
@@Alloniya True, but still he always has alot to say
Alloniya there always something new
Pazgon lo
This is literally my third time watching this. Well you know what they say, third time's the charm, wish me luck.
yeah, ive watched too many drawing tutorials for the face and head structure and i still havent gotten the hang of it.
you're not alone, so dont worry
I wouldn't maybe focus so much on these "construction" methods/ temples/guides, especially if you're already having trouble with this stuff. To me they actually make thing's more complicated to draw (first I gotta draw a circle, then this shape, then that shape, then 2 discs and a grid thang etc, just wanna draw a head!!!). What I do is just draw the head from scratch (usually start with the cranium/dome, regardless of head angle). Sometimes it will look very wrong (especially if new to drawing without "construction") but when you've drawn heads this way for long enough, you can usually get the right shape (to my eyes) with only 1 or 2 attempts. I think you just need a good idea of what the shape of the head "should" look like, and Im guessing this just comes from pure practice.
SAME LMAO
@@ncshuriken also dont forget reference
A year later did u improve ?
I come here to start a new hobby during this self quarantine 😄. Hope y'all are safe and healthy folks 💛💛
Grocery store workers be like:
@@frictionparticulus3583 what about the docs?
You too~
Did you develop some kind of artistic talent kr not ??
SAME :D
Iron Man's helmet is just a Loomis head with red and yellow chrome, change my mind.
Nobody gives a shit.
MoeJoe Gaming you just mad
@@mkiinebariemue7878 Yes, I'm very angry.
MoeJoe Gaming why tho?? They’re just making a joke
MoeJoe Gaming why you so angry bro?
Just a heads up this will take practice.
Was that supposed to be a pun
Good pun
@@francreeps4509 use your head a litle bit
@@justinchong9317 oh thank you
@@gavrilostojanovic7287 that was the joke
Wow! That helped a ton!!! It was quick and easy and looked natural the first try. Now I just need to do it 1000 x to develop a muscle memory for the natural lines. Looking forward to eventually studying the whole body. Thank you!!!
I feel so grateful that my Dad let me borrow his copy of "Figure Drawing for All It's Worth" (1948)! Loomis, Rockwell and the giants at Marvel comics were all the rage for me! Thank you for this wonderful tutorial! You ROCK!
Woah... Learning is real. I'm amazed how realistic my sketches look. This is amazing method and an amazing teacher.
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As a beginner artist who didn't go to art school, thank god for proko.
As an art student. Thank god for proko
@@daemon9449 are you studying fine art? Is it true they don't teach you how to draw?! If so that seems really weird to me 🤔
@@anima6035 It really depends on what kind of drawing teacher you get, some of them don't give a shit, others do. I got a little bit of both but it was not enough to cover everything
@@daemon9449 oh ok. I had the impression most university fine art courses expect you to already know how to draw or be damned. Which is kind of odd but I guess there are a lot of young people who can already draw by the time they get to uni.. I'm 33 and would love to study fine art at an institution but its daunting as Im still a beginner, I think I need some more practice under my belt.
Wishing you all the best in your studies! I imagine you'll do very well with all the extra curricular effort you are putting in!! 💖🌻
@@anima6035 Thank you very much
To me, the most difficult part of the Loomis method is figuring out where the cranium and oval is supposed to be. I feel like I mess everything up right after I draw the cranium.
It goes on the side of the head, from the top and bottom plane it's 1/3 down or up.
If you don't know where it's at in perfect thirds. Divide that circle by half. Then from the middle divide that a half again and that will make a third
Try reilly method it might look intimidating at first but once you get the hang of it drawing the head will feel very easy
trial and error. you will get a feel for it after a while.
try it out. if it looks wrong, then erase and try another way.
soon you will see the pattern.
also, watch the video on drawing shapes in various forms. that helps a lot with this concept.
watch the previous video
@@Crashgen 1/3rd? So you're telling me the width of the head is 1/3rd of the width of a circle. That is not correct.
Edit: I see what you are saying now. Divide the height into 6ths and make the cut-off circles the middle 4/6ths of the height.
Draws a perfect freehand circle, that alone is a skill
drawing a circle is easy, start by roughly sketching out a head, then rubbing out the parts you don't need.
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OH MY GOD THIS IS SO HELPFUL! I’ve recently been feeling so bothered with my method because it would leave my head shapes so unproportionate and finally I found a method that works well! I will definitely be looking into more of Loomis’ method, thank you for sharing this.
I just did the portrait course this year, brought my portraits to a whole nother level, Happy to see you revisiting it, as I was considering running through it again to strengthen the lessons. The first charcoal portrait I did after taking the course won our regional fine arts exhibition! Thanks, Stan!
Watching Proko is like listening to a soothing spa music. The difference is, I learn something invaluable.
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Hi - I'm so delighted to discover you and your videos this morning! I am referring all my drawing students - I can demo in class, but this way they can review and replay what they need without having to try to see around my hand, other students, etc. Love your friendly, easy to watch approach. I'm a fan already ❣️
Loving 12 Days of Proko! I have been following you for some time now, and I am constantly recommending your videos to other artists and students. Thank you so much for what you contribute to the art community!!
Took me several hours to get that initial perfect “cranial mass”
This will be good for you in jail to pratice head.
Same
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You absolutely need to know that you are a God of your field of interest, so simply explained, I've literally never been to such a great teacher on TH-cam. 💜✨
This is so helpful. To me, looking at references can only do so much. When I legitimately learn the concept of how to draw a head to get the proportions right, I can understand where everything starts and ends to better draw.
Thank you for all your vids. My sketching has greatly improved by watching your lessons.
Perfect method I learned from your first video of Loomis years ago. Has helped a bunch
Out of all the videos I’ve watched this week on heads, this is the one that really clicked! Great explaining and easy to understand. Ty
you are the best art teacher ever. I am so grateful to you for sharing your mastery of drawing anatomy. You are a gift from nature or our Creator to make this world a beautiful one. Thank you, Sir. I was an art teacher in high school several years ago.
Ah, I remember when I thought I could draw.
Just...same here
Nows a good time to see if you CAN draw now
Same here, though, it's an time period that only took place in my head canons
@Flandre Scarlet Practice makes better.
A true mood.
Perfect timming, I was just rewatching the head ones
Me too! Love the timing on this vid :D
I could never find a good tutorial on how to draw heads like this, but now I finally get it! Thank you so much!
Me: Okay, got it, simple...
My brain: Who am I, what am I, where am I, how am I here?"
This is random but can I just recommend the song Exogenesis, part 1 by Muse
@@vii6429 It's good, thanks!
@@spooky6049 yay!!! Glad you like it, you're welcome😊😊
I love the casual vibes I'm getting from this video! I remember watching your Loomis video a couple of years ago and I was mind blown and did those heads for days in my dollar store sketchbook.
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I've learned it in nine minutes and now i shall practice drawing heads and bodies everyday and or mix them together. Thank you proko.
I got his books on recommendation. The books are really good but sometimes its nice to people actually draw it with video get a better understand of the practical side. Thanks Proko
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THANK YOU!!
I cannot tell you how many videos i opened up looking for information on the Loomis method and ended up learning barely anything. A couple people did videos on it and didn't say a word on explanation. They did a drawing using it but didn't explain at all what they were doing.
YOU were GREAT! I'm definitely subscribing. Thank you so much! I was ready to pull hair out.
Very interesting using an Afro model. I did portrait painting in Africa for several years and instinctually struggled with the lengths and set of the jaws! My brain was used to European and it took a while to appreciate that most of the beautiful African I painted had a fundamentally different set and proportion! I’d like to mention my favorite model, a refugee from Zimbabwe called Lwazi who could sit motionless for hours with a perfect expression of peace radiating from her. When I asked her how she managed this she just replied in her equally beautiful voice
“I pray…”
Hi. Can you link your art? I'd love to see!
Cringe..
Cringe
Yeah that Homo Erectus dna hits hard. Nothing says beauty like a jutting primate muzzle and receding forehead. I know it gives Proko a boner.
Did my very first Loomis head rights along with you just now! Fantastic, freeing way to perceive and draw at the same time!
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I really wasnt expecting much but i am shocked over how much this helped me improve
Your line control is so phenomenal!
Your ability to convey this method is simply amazing! Whenever I watch one of your videos I am instantly transfixed to every word that is spoken, and every mark you make on the paper! You have my utmost respect sir!
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The best tutorial that I find on YT, graatz.
The thing I'm most grateful for in your vids, is that you sketch DARK ENOUGH TO SEE onscreen!
Are you kidding me? How helpful are these vids!!! Watching all 3 for a second time to get the basics.
Your free and premium lessons have helped my art so much 😭 thank youu. Worth every minute and penny!
Also wow you look how I feel. Hope you're okay!
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Awesome content very helpful for noobs like us
Lol. Not noobs 4 me
this really helped thanks. Been years since I drew anything but I immediately managed to start drawing again without problems
Thanks, your videos are helping me to understand the process because your teaching methods are simple and effective.
Definitely helpful!! Can’t wait for tomorrow ;P
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Your drawing instructions with the loomis method are so useful! Ypu explain it very clearly and it's fun to practice. Keep up with the good work! Many thanks.
P.s. and did I say it's very inspiring
This is the method i really want to know it will make it more easier than using a grid. Thankyou man!
Thanks to people like this, art is for everyone.
Thanks proko
3 years training drawing heads and faces
Me: Ok, I think I know how to do this
Proko: I'm gonna stop you right there
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this is so great- I am pretty much "self taught" as a pencil artist, and have mostly just drawn animals and people with no particular formulas or shapes as a reference, just looking at a photo and going for it, and they are pretty good. But I want to be REALLY good, so I felt I needed to sharpen drawing skills with another method, this is perfect- can't wait to check out the others and see where I get in a year :)))))) thanks so much!
Thank you for this series. Best I have seen on TH-cam! 🙋🏼♀️
after drawing my entire life, i still love to find these videos. As an artist you never stop learning
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My then five year old son (2 weeks before he turned 6) drew together with me the side profile of a man's face, using the Loomis method. I was blown away as what he drew actually looked like a real person! The construction lines were far from perfect, circle was closer to an oval and some of the lines were less than confident, but the end result amazed me!
First of all, thank you a lot for this video! You are one of the best resources for learning I have ever found. From editing, to music and humor, everything is on point.
I have a question in regards to one aspect of the loomis method: In your older video you draw the (as you put it) rythm of the cheek/jaw from the chin to the ear, in this new video you draw it from the chin to the top of the forehead. What is the benefit of doing it that way or is it more a head to head situation? If anybody else knows, feel free to answer as well!
Again, thank you so much!
They’re just two different rhythms. The one from the forehead to chin attaches the side plane of the jaw perfectly to the side of the cranium. So it makes more sense as two forms that lock together. The one across the cheek defines the cheek bone which is an extension off the side plane.
Simple technique hope you like thisss 😍👇🏻👇🏻
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@@FHBart why
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This is, by far, the clearest explanation of this method I have seen.
Very much appreciate the video. Learned how to draw people somewhat but this video kind of helps me wrap my head around much of what I have already learned.
Wow! Your posts make me so solid! Keep up the good *hard* 😉 work!
Your awesome proko. Wished you can be my art teacher. You explained so simple. Took me awhile to catch on. Need to work on shadowing. Drive trucks for living. Draw a lot on downtime
Whoa, this just helped me so much, I feel like i didnt understand proper head drawing at all before approaching it like this. I mean I could wing it, but i never used rules to dictate any sort of a process. This is awesome!
These are great advice for beginners, I never used it, I will start to see how it go for me.
Thank you
Thanks proko you really helped me!
Отличный урок. Все доходчиво, понятно и интересно. Без лишней лирики. Спасибо вам большое. Желаю успехов и процветания.
This tutorial is the best.After i watched it and after 2 hours of practice i can draw heads perfectly.Thank you
Ah-HA! I've been trying to figure out the Loomis proportion for years. I don't know why I couldn't get it right before. This explanation finally makes sense! Thanks for making these!!!
Thanks, Prof. Moriarty, this was helpful.
OMG :v I can't (des)see more
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Great video. Thank you. I learned something new today.
This is unbelievable! Thank you, I suddenly can draw a face? its crazy,,, I am planing to watch every single video you have done. Thank you again
Used this right after finishing the video I'm extremely satisfied thanks for posting!
I’ve heard many artists saying the Loomis method is very controversial, and that it loses the uniqueness of a face, but honestly for artists that like to sketch and quickly create a face, this method is perfect! I like to draw portraits but I always found it hard to find proportion in the head, this method really took my drawings to the next level! Now I feel confident in drawing any face and enjoy it!
Why is not anyone talking about this that he can draw a perfect Circle ⭕ lol.
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The first Loomis method tutorial I understand. Thank you!
This is the best video tutorials for beginner artist, you made them as simple as possible! Thank you so much Proko !
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Important note which he explains later in the video: To oval that chops off a part of the head needs to be the size 2/3 of the circle. I struggled a lot with it
so Loomis heads are basically simple Iron Man helmets
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thank you so much for the tutorial, I've found many methods and I just couldn't learn from them as they were overwhelming, your tutorial was really simple and clear, thank you
thanks for the teachings master proko, i postponed the studies but i am very satisfied with your classes, it was easy with your explanation.
This is so hard.
And try again u got this.
Nothing is hard.... Keep trying
Broo why comments are so fresh
@@OgMovieGamer😂😂😂😂
It was hard for me too at first. But around 15-20 heads later I got the hang of it. And I'd advise revisiting the video every now and then to make sure you're doing it the right way.
"Draw a circle"
"Okay, I give up"
Wow that line drawn at 5:30 just gave me the "ah ha!" moment big time. The cross in the circle tracks the eye/head pointing direction! I kept drawing that cross more-or-less vertical regardless of head orientation... which sounds awfully silly now. My heads are instantly 10x better, bravo.
i have been watching Stan P. On YT since almost the beginning and he’s matured into a husband, dad and multimillion YTer. Congratulations to you, and great continued success in your art career and life in general.
I actually use a box to draw heads now, it's easier to define perspective for me, but I'm definetely watching these
XD I actually was just told about the box method, its easier for me aswell nice to see im not alone.
@@nerdycurls6253 Yeah, I was mindblown when I saw how much easier it is to manipulate the box xD
Box method > everything else.
Well... It's not exactly better it's just way easier to use imo. Makes a lot more sense
Hey, I used to do the exact same, but I've found that I tend to give too much of a boxy shape to what I'm drawing, but when I started implementing both systems, using the box to place it in space, and then the Loomis method to define 3D shapes, everything got way better
If you know how spheres and ellipses work in perspective, this approach is a lot more simple and quick for laying in heads in extreme perspectives.
Thanks for the tutorial i learned a lot , and i want to teach it to my schoolmates who want to draw too :)
Edit: my schoolmates are hard to learn lol , so i recommend your channel to them
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OK so from now u became one of my favorite Artists!😍❤....Thankyou so so much sir!🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you so much. I am back to drawing after a few decades :) I was always drawing based on sense and no knowledge. This is a GAME CHANGER!!! Love the tips. I'll be a student of Proko academy :) Hvala lepo
u ok bro?
RYUUy I was thinking the same!
Same he looks very tired/sad
Parenting, perhaps
Probably, hope he'll get sole rest some day
Me too I thought the same. A bit worrying
Great video as always. Learning so much. Also, are you currently working on a film? 'The Dark Knight' is my favorite.
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Wow make it look so simple.. You're legend Proko. Thank you..
i was watching this again and I think proko sounds bitter, specially in the beginning, he's usually so light hearted and fun.
god making humans be like
3:58 Me: *Watches this video*
Also me: "Wait is that Yoni? That looks like Yoni from my figure drawing class"
Proko: "And here we have Yoni"
S H O O K
Veronica is also in the Code Babes youtube channel
I am so appreciate of this video. Thank you for breaking it down so clearly!
Thank you so much! I just remembered how much I love drawing and will start again!
good video!
Art Assignment: *exists*
Proko: Come, this is no place to die
Best explanation of the basic Loomis method…bar none!