Loomis Method, How to Find the Centerline Part 1

[@The-Entelechy]

This is the best tutorial because all the new ones never show the process. They just tell you to draw two circles without showing you how to derive the measurements and placements

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad you enjoyed the video. Thank you for your comment.

[@noctu210]

While watching all those videos on the Loomis Method, I always wondered about the proportions between the circle and ellipse... Finally, found the answer! Thank you so much!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I’m glad you enjoyed the video.

[@sixpathspanda]

I'm one month into drawing and there is so much to learn. thank you so much for your videos, you're a great teacher!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you I am glad your are enjoying the videos and finding them helpful.

[@oceaniccurrents]

Are you still drawing? I’m almost 1 month in

[@somebodyoncetoldme1704]

How are you holding up 2 years and a month in?

[@pronoun171]

I would be lost without your videos. Thank you the effort and the depth you provide in your explanations.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad they have helped! Please help get the word out.

[@aashutoshkashyap1886]

10:50 he is using a katana blade instead of scale.

[@mackels716]

You have the most accurate, most precise and most comprehensive set of videos about Loomis. Thank you Master!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you Mik. I am glad you enjoyed the video. Parts 2 and 3 really compete the approach for finding the center line this is really just a first step.

[@alexbarb2829]

master is a good term a lot of my actual teachers in my school don't even draw Loomis's method

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

@@alexbarb2829 I wasn't trained in Loomis in college either. I came across later in my professional career. There are other methods along with measuring, triangulation, basic proportions and so forth but I recognize Loomis would have taken my drawing to a professional level quicker if it had been taught to me in school.

[@emmajones403]

I've been struggling along with the Loomis method for years and never getting it quite right and the same with art books that show how to construct the head from a box and this is the first tutorial I've found that put them both together and actually makes sense. My heads are looking more 3d already, thank you so much!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Ism glad you enjoyed the video!

[@Minotona]

I think you're skipping the basics. Try to really really MASTER spatial geometry, and the fundamental shapes like cube, sphere, ellipse, triangular and how they rotate in different axis and planes to the exact degree. Then you can figure out Loomis method by yourself or even make your own method

[@henryshearman5550]

That really helped my understanding and taught me some new things, thankyou.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Glad it helped. Thank you for watching.

[@snoo333]

thanks a lot, learned so many things today. not in art school or anything. just like to watch how is made. thanks

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am lad you enjoyed the class!

[@patklim761]

You are a great teacher...Thank you so much!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you I am glad you enjoyed the video.

[@hugomartinez536]

you have the best loomis tutorials

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Hey Hugo Thanks for the comment. I appreciate it.

[@jewelnavarrete3935]

Hope I got this right, draw the circle first and then put it in a box. Glad you demonstrated that. I am drawing 10 heads a day to get caught up on my drawing. It takes alot of commitment and practice to my art to get better and to feel more relaxed about the process.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Hello, I appreciate your questions. You create the circle and the ellipse that is 2/3 the height of the circle the you create the centerline that divides the front of the face from the side of the head. The you create a line on the outside of the face. Using the forehead and nose line and the two vertical lines. We use "x" marks the spot to find the middle. That is the first step. Part 2 and 3 finish the procedures for creating an accurate centerline. Thank you again for watching.

[@mx9060]

Hi, im confused at 26:00, for the 3/4 head, why are the horizontal lines not slanted inwards, as they are going away from us?

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

It's an artistic choice. It's about the implication of size, distance, and point of view. The more convergence you have to the vanishing point, the more distortion you have, the less the lines converge to the vanishing points, the less distortion to where you keep the lines parallel. Portrait photographers would tell you to be further away from the subject and zoom in, this will give you lines that have almost no convergence. If you move closer, the vanishing points move in, and you have more convergence to the vanighing point, and the portrait will start to feel more like a caricature. It just depends on what you want to do. So you can exaggerate or soften the perspective depending on what you want to do.

[@ScilexGuitar]

I feel like a lot of people just skip learning to draw boxes, spheres, cylinders but mostly PLANES in different perspectives and jump straight to "ok lets draw a head using this cool loomis method I found". I was one of those people and i never understood how to construct it properly. But after practicing simple forms, contour lines, center lines in perspective, when I got back to loomis head I felt like I was drawing in 3D, I was placing the centerline on an actual 3D form

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for your comment. I am glad you enjoyed the video. Combined with learning perspective basics Loomis and Reilly are very powerful methods.

[@noirwerewolf1111]

Thank you for this ONE!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@hosseinesmaeilisohi5472]

Spectacular, Thanks

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@fahime.1007]

Thank you very much🍃

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

You're welcome 😊

[@Trylobyte]

Left most (3/4) view at 22.00mins -that method only produces a centre line left of measured centre if the brow line and/or the nose line are drawn in perspective first. Otherwise you just get measured centre and then still end up guessing!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Hello Richard I appreciate your comment. This video is to help people getting used to finding the middle using "x" marks the spot. Part 2 of the video shows how to find perspective middle and take the guesswork out of the process.

[@Scale48]

I can't believe I've found a left-handed artist. Almost got to thinking I might be the only one.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for watching! There are alot of left handed artists out there you are not alone. :)

[@ArneList]

@@KevinMcCainStudios I am also lefthanded, but the other day, I found myself using the right hand for a broader background. I was surprised, but this is, how I also paint walls.

[@mikeynyc6857]

Another amazingly talented left handed artist is Alex Tzavaras from simplify drawing and paining. I watch them both.

[@MsZzzipper]

Yes. I’m a nurse, and “nursing intuition” is sometimes carried as a magical enhancement that only few nurses carry. I’ve often thought that it’s the years of practice, or exposure to families in healthcare. A type of cultural capital, I think. I really appreciate your down-to-Earth teaching style. 😀

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad you enjoyed the video. Thank you for the compliment.

[@somebodyoncetoldme1704]

4:05 how is this 1 point perspective? All the lines are parallel. They should be converging.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Hello, I appreciate your comment. When ever you are drawing as an artist we simplify objects. Artist will talk about the "Head in a Box" to describe the perspective. However the truth is the head is a wedge shape not a box. The box is a simplification. The box that is 90 degrees to the "Line of Sight" and is created with a true rectangle the lines are kept truly parallel as a simplification. I appreciate you watching the video.

[@tyroneperry5008]

Thanks. Really helpful.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@waheedalbalushi4443]

Thank you💙

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

You’re welcome

[@xvarzka33]

Great video, thank you

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@davidross8668]

I just started learning to draw and your videos are incredibly informative. One question, how did you develop such amazing hand control? your strokes are so relaxing and precise, your lines and circles are amazing, I cant get near to a decent circle or straight line.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I practice lines and circle for 15 minutes everyday before drawing or painting. It helps with precision.

[@InkRebellion]

Brilliant!!!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad you enjoyed the video.

[@supernova7848]

Thanks ! Very well explained !

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for your comment.

[@marylouniebrugge9174]

Wow do you know what angle to wrap the middle line up over the head at 3/4 view?

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

The curve will echoe the curvature of the ellipse. This is mostly through feel from drawing thousands of ellipses. If you're not familiar with ellipse is start getting to know and drawing ellipses and the perspective of ellipses.

[@moorek1967]

@@KevinMcCainStudios Yes, good advice. But if you don't know the correct way to begin with, then you will build your foundation on the flawed perspective so you go on to make 1,000 ellipses the wrong way because of habit. Sorry to make a negative comment, but I have the same question as the poster.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

@@moorek1967 Thank you for your comment. First off we need to clarify some things. The is no such thing as a flawless drawing even from the most amazing artist you can point to, their drawing will have a certain amount of error build into the drawing. However it can be a small enough error that the eye won't perceive it. That is what we are shooting for, close enough that people can't perceive there is an issue. To answer the question of the angle, one needs to know about the major and minor axis for drawing ellipses. The ellipse drawn on the ball for this head uses an ellipse that is truly vertical or pretty close. If the ellipse representing the side of the head is 30 degrees with a vertical major axis then the center line ellipse that we are building off of would be 30 degrees with a vertical major axis and that ellipse would wrap the sphere or ball of the head. Now you could formally plot all this in perspective using boxes instead of free hand but you would gain very little.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

@@moorek1967 Also part 3 of this series shows how to do this.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Also part 3 of this video shows where to wrap the center line and how to do it.

[@keshavyaduvansh4530]

Thank you so much

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for watching.

[@girishamarchheda8269]

What is difrant 1poin añd 2 point

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

True front view and true profile are 1 pt perspective views. All of the 3/4 views are 2 pt perspective.

[@tsdobbi]

Thankyou for this. Even in Loomis's drawing the head and hands, specifically for certain perspectives it lacks the process and I would find myself not knowing what to do. I kinda ended up doing a hybrid of Loomis and the Huston method. Putting like a half cylinder as the "mask" of the face at the angle I'm going for. The square on the front kind of accomplishes the same task.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I appreciate your comment. I am glad you enjoyed the video.

[@JoyZoneYT]

You need to read the text linked to the images and not just look at the images. All of the information is in the text.

[@afolabiadegorite4815]

Thank you for these videos plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz keep them coming!!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I will, thank you for watching the video!

[@ammonhawkins1968]

Ty so much

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Your welcome. Thank you for watching!

[@alessandrosoeiro2723]

Muito bom!!!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Obrigado

[@remana8398]

Thank you😔❤

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Your welcome! Thank you for watching

[@TT-ei1ge]

嗯thank you

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@libernovuss]

I tried to practice during the video, but I caaaaaaaaan't ): I will need to watch this video lesson again and again ):

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Did my explanations seem confusing? Let me know how I could improve the video. I will make more videos explaining the subtle concepts of Loomis. If you go to sketchfab.com they have some 3D Loomis head you can position and sketxh from if that helps. You will have so do a search for the Loomis head on sketchfab.com bur it's a great resource.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Also I appreciate you watching the video and trying to use the concepts. Thanks so much.

[@libernovuss]

@@KevinMcCainStudios Thanks for the concern, professor! Your explanation is great, really, I see all the videos for that reason. I believe my problem is the lack of practice. I have the impression that I lack practice on straight and curved lines . But i will get there at some point. Thanks for the indication and the time. (and of course, sorry for the translator english).

[@lisafred1362]

Do you have a video on how to do the side slice in 3/4 view? Mine are always wonky shaped. That makes the dias inside wrong. I know it is 1/3 of the total head space lopped off, but that doesn't help. Is there a way to do that slice in a foolproof way? Maybe I should draw a box for the side plane, then draw the ellipse inside instead of the ellipse and drawing the box outside... Heeeelp. I especially have trouble when the ellipse has a lot of box space on the far side away from head. (For example, when top of head extends down into far side of ellipse.) Thanks.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

If I understand it your having troubles with the ellipses. As long as the ellipse touches the 1/6 line from the top and the 1/6 line from the bottom and you create a vertical ellipse(the major axis is vertical) within those to lines it should be okay, the ellipse doesn't have to be perfect. If you have trouble drawing ellipses and circles practice doing those freehand for 5 minutes three times a week. I also have 3 videos on ellipse drawing. I hope that helps. Here is the first one kzbin.info/www/bejne/noTClKWwf8-em8U

[@heliusfacenna4109]

@@KevinMcCainStudios I think the issue might be in finding the line that marks each side of the facial plane? Is this to do with drawing a square that hits hairline and under the nose? Is it that square that gives you the correct placement for the sides of the face?

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

@@heliusfacenna4109 Yes the sides of the square gives the sides of the face on the left side in this case.

[@marybuffaloe1688]

drawing head what size

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for your comment. I am not sure about your question. You can use this on a head of any size.

[@staceylynnash]

Why isn’t the top right box 2 point perspective?? 😮

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Hello Stacey thank you for your question. Anytime a box is created with a true rectangle, that box is in 1 pt. Perspective. This is a 1 pt perspective box rotated slightly to the left. I hope that helps. Thank you again for your comment.

[@MrBKuv]

This is brilliant. I’ve been studying loomis method and it’s great until I go to draw someone and the features of most people are asymmetrical.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad you enjoyed the video.

[@devantecarter1441]

Step one draw a perfect circle 🫠

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for your comment. Your circle doesn't need to be perfect. Especially since it's going to be modified.

[@devantecarter1441]

@@KevinMcCainStudios lol you’re right, I have to get past wanting it to look exactly like yours

[@tulaysenturk8725]

Süpeeer helpfuull

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you I am glad you enjoyed the video.

[@paulrichardson4715]

I was wondering why this looked so natural to me, then I realised your a fellow lefty 😂

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for watching. If you watch part 2. It gives you the second part for finding the centerline. Check it out.

[@paulrichardson4715]

@@KevinMcCainStudios Thanks, I definitely will.

[@maxb1952]

We have the same phone case

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for watching

[@laurenceelfenbein7772]

Ditto

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you

[@Constantinesis]

First time I see exactly how much of the sides should be cut. I think not even Loomis doesn`t shows this.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad you enjoyed the video!

[@neverhavingfun]

👁🔺

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for watching

[@dc-wp8oc]

Appreciated the information and agree this is a worthy foundational skill, but found the explanations verbose and too repetitive.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for you're comment

[@jcepri]

good video, but a bit too repetitive.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for watching

[@JoyZoneYT]

Repetition makes for a good ingestion of information. This way, coming out of the video, you have retained most of it because it was explained and repeated throughout.