Deep folds head rotation reference
The deep-folds head is an older face, and its creases sit on top of the planes rather than replacing them. Place the brow, cheekbone and jaw first, then lay the fold from the nose to the mouth corner along the front of the cheek. In profile the jowl hangs below the jawline and the neck shows its cords. Keep each crease following the surface it sits on as the head turns.
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 near profile
- How to draw an older face: folds that sit on the planes
- 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 symmetrical face, and when it should look uneven
- How to draw eye sockets: the hollow the eye sits in
- How to draw nasolabial folds: where the smile lines start and stop
- How to draw a nose from the front: length, wings and bridge
- How to draw eye bags: the lines under the lower lid
- How to draw eyes in three-quarter view: the far eye
- How to draw the iris
- 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 deep folds head at all sixteen angles, full size, with its turnaround loops and a practice sheet, is in study pack 05 and in head rotation volume 2.