Square jaw head rotation reference
The square-jaw head has a flat cheek plane and a firm brow. Draw the jaw as a box seen in perspective: in the three-quarter views the near corner stays wide while the far corner tucks behind the cheek. Check that the chin keeps its flat front as it turns, and that the jaw line meets the ear rather than stopping short of it.
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 ears at every angle of the head
- How to draw the head from the front
- How to draw the head in near profile
- How to draw the head in slight three-quarter view
- How to draw the head in three-quarter view
- How to draw a jawline: front, three-quarter and profile
- How to draw a forehead: the slope, the brow step and where it turns
- How to draw a square face: hold the width, then turn the corner
- How to draw full lips: front, three-quarter and profile
- How to draw a jawline from the side: where the corner goes
- How to draw a nose in three-quarter view: where it meets the cheek
- How to draw different lip shapes
- How to draw eyelids: the lid line and the crease
- 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 square jaw head at all sixteen angles, full size, with its turnaround loops and a practice sheet, is in study pack 07 and in head rotation volume 2.