Drawing Portraits - Anatomy & Structure of the Head

The following video lessons are by master draftsman and painter, Stan Prokopenko, teacher at the famous Watts Atelier of the Arts in Encinitas, California. You can't get much better instruction than this, without paying a lot for it. Try drawing along!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a different approach to drawing the head, by artist Scott Waddell, of the Grand Central Academy in New York City. Instead of Stanley's constructionist approach, Scott draws by measuring the outlines with his pencil, and looking for correct angles "tilts" in all the positive and negative shapes. Scott's drawings look flat at first, but he fleshes them out to incredible detail. It's a little like if Sheldon from Big Bang Theory were an artist: