Full lips head rotation reference
The full-lips head carries a mouth that stands forward of the chin and the nose base. In profile, measure how far the lips project past a line from the nose to the chin before you draw their shape. Wrap the mouth around the curve of the teeth in the turned views, so the far half shortens. The narrow jaw and smooth skull keep the larger shapes simple.
Pencil studies through the turn
Turn this head yourself, one angle at a time: head turnaround reference.
Front, three-quarter and profile in tone
Guides that draw this head
- Drawing different face shapes from one construction
- How to draw the head in profile
- How to draw the head in slight three-quarter view
- How to draw the mouth and lips at different angles
- Face width proportions: the eyes, nose and mouth measured on ten heads
- How to draw a chin: front, three-quarter and profile
- How to draw a forehead: the slope, the brow step and where it turns
- How to draw a heart-shaped face: a narrow jaw under a full skull
- How to draw full lips: front, three-quarter and profile
- How to draw different eye shapes
- How to draw different lip shapes
- How to draw ears from the side: width, lean and placement
- How to draw ears in three-quarter view: width and placement
- How to draw eyes from the front, step by step
- How to draw lips from the front, step by step
- How to draw lips from the side: where the corner goes
- How to draw the iris
- How to draw the philtrum and cupid's bow
- How to hatch a face: which way the strokes run
The head guides in order use the same construction for every head.
Keep drawing
The full lips head at all sixteen angles, full size, with its turnaround loops and a practice sheet, is in study pack 08 and in head rotation volume 2.