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How to draw the head from behind: 202.5° reference

Heavy brow at 202.5 degrees. Compare the pencil drawing with the tonal study.

Head rotation reference, Heavy brow, 202.5 degrees near-back view, pencil drawing
Pencil drawing
Head rotation reference, Heavy brow, 202.5 degrees near-back view, tonal drawing
Tonal drawing

Drawing this angle

At 202.5 degrees, the head has turned a little beyond the back view. Compare it directly with 180 degrees to find the shift in the ears and the rear outline. One side of the skull now presents more of its side plane while the other recedes. A small difference in those widths can communicate the turn without much internal detail.

Place the neck after the skull and check whether its visible sides enter at the same height. Follow any overlap at the base of the head before drawing a continuous neck contour. Avoid copying the 157.5 degree view as a mirror image: the paired plates let you observe differences in this particular head and in its shading. In the tonal study, locate the broad change across the rear surface. Make two small sketches side by side, one of the back view and one of this angle, and keep only the marks that distinguish them.

No guide covers this angle yet; the head guides in order start from the front view.

See the full turn

Compare all ten heads

Keep drawing

The heavy brow head at all sixteen angles, full size, with its turnaround loops and a practice sheet, is in study pack 10 and in head rotation volume 2.