New 3 HOUR TUTORIAL - THE HUMAN HEAD - coming soon!

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This 3-hour technical studies tutorial is aimed towards intermediate to advanced artists.

The Human Head tutorial explores, dissects and explains the daunting and technical subject of the human head. 

The common way that many artists tend to approach the study and execution of the human head and face is often to "simplify" the human form, to facilitate the understanding of what might seem, a very complicated and intimidating structure. 

This tutorial however aims to demystify this beast and attack the subject head-on (excuse the pun), by offering artists the means to study, understand and furthermore, use their new found technical knowledge to cater to whatever artistic style they wish to explore, be it hyper-realism to all-out cartoon exaggeration. 

Although this tutorial is aimed primarily at intermediate to advanced artists, the subject discussed in this tutorial is one which beginner artists need to adopt early on in their career to avoid making the common mistake of relying on "shortcuts" which in the long run, end up sending them down a spiralling path of misinformation and confusion. Like the expression goes "take the long short cut". 

With that in mind, by the end of this tutorial, your knowledge and control over human facial anatomy, be it male or female, young or old, thin or thick, beautiful or homely, realistic or abstract, will be far more solid and less frightening. You will have the tools necessary to understand and manipulate the human facial form to create powerful, technically sound and most importantly, believable characters.

Subjects explored:

- And in-depth study of the generic adult human skull

- The uniqueness of the male vs. the female skull

- Studies of the human skull in toddlers and young children (2 and 6 years old)

- Useful tips for finding and remembering proportion and placement (frontal, profile and 3-quarter angles)

- Finding and exploring the understructure of a human face (male, female, young, old, thin and heavy)

- Understanding how bone structure influences a characters "look"

- A brief study of the muscles of the human face (which ones have the greatest influence on a characters appearance)

- A brief study of blood vessels and arteries, and how they transport blood to specific parts of the face

- Translating technical and anatomical theory into the world of under-painting to render believable skin

- "Breaking the rules" of human anatomy. How the understanding of human anatomy can translate into fictional "fantasy" characters

- Using traditional under-painting techniques to render human skin and eyes on a cartoon-style character