Soft planes head rotation reference
The soft-planes head is a younger face where most turns happen gradually. With few hard edges to hold on to, the construction lines do more of the work: keep the brow line and the center line curving around the form at every angle. Compare the rounded cheek with the short jaw corner, and use the tonal plates to find where the side plane begins.
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 three-quarter view
- How to draw an older face: folds that sit on the planes
- 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 chin: front, three-quarter and profile
- How to draw a forehead: the slope, the brow step and where it turns
- How to draw a round face: one curve from the ear to the chin
- How to draw a symmetrical face, and when it should look uneven
- How to draw nasolabial folds: where the smile lines start and stop
- How to draw an eye from the side: the wedge, the lids and the iris
- How to draw eye bags: the lines under the lower lid
- How to draw eyelids: the lid line and the crease
- How to draw eyes from the front, step by step
- How to draw lips in three-quarter view: the two halves
- How to draw nostrils: size, spacing and shape
- How to hatch a face: which way the strokes run
- Side profile proportions for drawing, measured on ten heads
- Three-quarter face proportions for drawing, measured on ten heads
- How to draw an oval face: the round curve in a taller box
The head guides in order use the same construction for every head.
Keep drawing
The soft planes head at all sixteen angles, full size, with its turnaround loops and a practice sheet, is in study pack 06 and in head rotation volume 2.