Drawing Faces From Any Angle

An old-fashioned art tutorial video. No series, just a quick lesson. I get asked about this a lot, so I wanted to jot down my personal opinions on how to best improve at drawing a face from any angle.

[uzomadrawsalot]

Art teacher :draw a head
Rest of the class: *starts with circle*
Sinix: *draws paper*

[Nomnomnom]

"you'll discover that the interior eye sockets have a lot of depth"
me: *cries in asian*

[divinosaur]

I have been shown the light. My art has been saved, my crops are flourishing, my skin is clear. Bless this video.

[jakubwoziwodzki]

Step one: draw paper
Step two: draw face

[Geiger]

at first: People should understand that there is NO definitive method. The ones crittizing Loomis' method or other methods are forgetting that. Instead we should experiment different methods and approchings, finding in each of them aspects that help us further. This "paper" approach is also very insightful and I will definitely make use of this. Thanks Sinix for sharing his knowledge with us :)

[mythicdawnist]

"They almost want to be human but they lack chins and things of that sort"

Me seeing my reflection while laying in bed, looking at my phone: *sweats nervously*

[marcobucci]

This is a great, practical lesson. Found myself using it in some recent work where I had to paint a bunch of partygoers from all angles. Thanks!

[HaystStudios]

"hey can you draw a face for me?"
"sure!"
*starts furiously drawing pinocchios*

[arjunpsk]

DUDE BRO!!!! This is the first video I watched of Sinix and I'm blown away by how easily he taught me this in less than 10 minutes. I'm not kidding; it's like I felt my brain rewrite neural connections to forget what I've know from my 32 years on this planet and re-learn this method.

This is what happens when teaching goes right. You get inspired to create. I know I am. Thanks, Sinix.

[melanieperez]

This video helped me DRASTICALLY improve my art. I seriously can't thank you enough. When I used to draw heads with circles I could never make them look up or down or with any dynamic pose. I'm so glad I learned this at a young age.

[arachnidsLor]

sinix, i really gotta say this, you are such a positive influence on my art - i dont even know how to describe it.
a few years back i was really awful at drawing (maybe i still am, idk) but i enjoyed it a lot, until i hit a brick wall, no more motivation, fun, i hated everything i worked on.
i found your shiny mech video through some yt recommendations or something and it just gave me that motivation back, that was probably 4 years ago. ever since then ive always been watching your stuff. while i do like your art style, i think the biggest influence youve had on my work was in terms of workflow, finding inspiration and most importantly: enjoying what i do. so thanks for that!
and you know, for the genuinely helpful informations about drawing fundamentals. I GUESS.
hope that comment wasnt too long and creepy. whoops.

[danielcondran]

seeing the curved "sheet of paper" just unlocked a part of my brain I was struggling with lol. foreshortening the facial details in the extreme poses is what I need practice on - like what you said they fall into that uncanny valley. Nice tips! Thanks for sharing, I'll be keeping this tool in my kit for sure.

[dovenart]

God, I've been struggling with the loomis method for more than a year now, and it never came out right. I spent an hour just drawing curved paper and already I can see a huge jump in the quality of my art and the organic forms of my faces.
This is really an awesome technique for people that can't get ridiculously technical! Thank you so much for sharing!

[ForgiveMyMadness]

I literally just started crying because I've avoided drawing for about 5 years because I couldn't improve on basic straight angled faces and bodies. I got frustrated that even though I enjoy art I want to be GOOD at it and being stuck drawing the same thing over and over made me discouraged. I dunno what possessed me to search this topic today and click on your video but... everything just clicked for me. The second you showed us the paper masks. I got it. Immediately. It's like my brain just needed the right teacher!! THANK YOU SO MUCH. I can finally move on from the place I've been haunted by for HALF A DECADE!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[darkvvulf]

This is blowing my mind. A lot of things just clicked.

[isadoratrale]

A really useful thing to do when first using this technique is legit cut up a piece of paper to reference. I find it more help if it's smaller, more square than regular and you're able to hold the paper in hand so you can draw it with the other.

[jorionedwards]

This seems better than the methods I see splattered across Youtube that say "from any angle" but only cover the same 3: profile, side profile, and maybe 3/4 view if they were ambitious. Plus they would only draw adult males. Proko was one exception to the angles part, but it takes so long to obtain any progress.

[dalulu]

My thoughts: Excellent, this I can do.
Opens up Krita, can't even draw a paper

[mookthemerc]

Thank you every character I draw is just looking straight and it's so irritating

[nook]

I've always drawn circles and wondered why my art looks so flat and lifeless!!! but this is so much better! I'm in love with your channel!