Heavy brow head rotation reference
The heavy-brow head has a projecting brow ridge that shades deep-set eyes. Draw the ridge as a shelf across the forehead, then set the eyes back under it. Most of that weight is tone: the shadow under the ridge runs down over the upper lids, while in profile the brow stands only a little past the bridge. Follow the lined forehead and the strong nose with the same construction lines.
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 eyes at different angles
- How to draw the head in near profile
- How to draw the head in profile
- How to draw a brow ridge: front, three-quarter and profile
- The Loomis method for drawing the head, step by step
- 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 a long face: raise the features, keep the jaw
- How to draw nasolabial folds: where the smile lines start and stop
- How to draw different eye shapes
- How to draw different lip shapes
- How to draw ears from the front: height, flare and rim
- How to draw eye bags: the lines under the lower lid
- How to draw eyes from the front, step by step
- How to draw lips from the front, step by step
- 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 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.