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Anonymous asked:

What's your method to drawing profile views?

~~crying.~~

Ok, I’m just kidding but tbh profile views are one of my biggest weaknesses and I don’t have much of a method for dealing with them. I guess what I try to do when drawing profile view is to keep proportions and distances in mind at all times. Studying real profile pictures helps build up a mental library of where everything is supposed to go. These “rules” won’t always apply to every characters face/body structure or your art style but they’re pretty good to go by on a general basis. Here are some observations I made quickly just now for the head.

I forgot to mention it above but eyes/brows fit within a triangle shape between the cheekbone and the brow bone. Knowing where that area is is key for keeping eyes in place. Doing a study of bone structure will help with this.

Also lips! Depending on thickness, will go past the chin unless the skin of the mouth is being pulled back in a smile or the like. They usually do not go past the tip of the nose tho.

(* i said “how muscles in the neck work” but really i meant just where they’re at)

Again, there will always be an exception to these rules but it’s something to go on. Now for the rest of the body I’m not going to make an visual guides but here are some guidelines I go by:

REMEMBER THE SPINE. it’s not a straight line. depending on how a person is standing, their chest (man or woman) will protrude past their face.
women’s backs curve more than men’s
the curve in someone’s back will not go past their ear (and usually lines up with it)
legs are also not completely straight. they are at a slight angle.
elbows rest at the curve in the spine, hands a mid-thigh

And that is all the knowledge I can impart on you. I hope it helps some. The most important thing to take away from all this is to study from life and make observations as you go. It’s still going to take some practice to figure out how to put those observations to good use and it’ll also take time for them to become something you don’t even need to think about when drawing. Heaven knows I’m still trying to get the hang of it myself.

Good luck!

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Red and Blue make Purple

not to be controversial but everyone in the notes defending the concept of customer only bathrooms is a bootlicker