Loomis Method, How to Find the Centerline Part 3

[@AlCold8]

For someone with a rather mathematical way of learning things, this tutorial comes as a blessing.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

@@AlCold8 I am glad you enjoyed the video.

[@NorbertGrill]

Absolutely great explanation. I have seen many videos on this topic. Never before could I say afterwards that I could at least understand it. Now it's time to practise, practise and practise again. Thank you Kevin

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Hey Norbert I am glad you enjoyed the video!

[@Elizabeth-gf9gr]

Wow, I'm blown away at how much I learned in just this one video. You have a great teaching style! Many thanks from a beginner artist! :)

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad it was helpful! Thank you for your comment.

[@billwolfificationjr7592]

just finished watching your 5th video about loomis, I never comment on videos here, but that was incredibly helpful and definitely the best deconstruction of this method I've seen so far, thank you

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for the wonderful comment! I am glad you enjoyed it. I hope you can incorporate the concepts onto your drawing.

[@xDukii]

you are an incredible teacher. thank you so much

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@habibulbashar2969]

I'm sooo happy to get like this video... Thanks

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@BaileysDad]

"if you get too much into the drafting part of this, you can lose sight of the portrait..." - good to hear there needs to be a sense of balance in this process. I get so caught up in the technicality sometimes. Thanks!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Balancing the technical and the creative is so difficultat times yet so important. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@colinbird6436]

Brilliant, easy to follow, enjoyed the video, cheers.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@ZuleykaK]

I love your videos! I feel like I’m in a real class. Great explanation and great pace. I don’t need to constant rewind. This also helps me get the inner circle size correct for different angles

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@ZaidAli-iv5eb]

I always watch your videos and learn from them thank you.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@quintenskevin]

I want to watch thank you to for the all the advices and explanations you gave us. I'll plain to redo this at home. Good work. Keep going.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@markseraly7501]

This was fantastic! Thank you!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@amaru5643]

Love the way you explained everything

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@nwgnowagi2732]

Thanks for the good information I don't have to waste my time trying and mistaking myself.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@marshallsolis9711]

Exelent class👌

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@rylha3175]

Wonderful video thank you, it helped me a lot. You know how to explain things well! I would love to see video of how to position eyes in perspective on different head angles. I struggle a lot with it 😓

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for your comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I will have to create a video about placing eyes. Great idea!

[@rylha3175]

@@KevinMcCainStudios thank you so much! I would gladly see that 😊😊😊

[@duoduopeng2998]

awesome Teacher

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@andreistein2429]

thank you a lot. i always struggled with that

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@J316-u1n]

Exelent explanation. Thanks

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@habin-lprv]

Thank you! learned a lot.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@WilcapCP]

Amazing!

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thanks!

[@Maca475]

Thank you so much for your wonderfull tutorials. I wanted to draw faces so I found your Rilley tutorial, by looking at it I realized I didnt know how to draw the helmet so I have watched all your head/Loomis tutorials. That was when it hit me, I wasnt so good at perspective either, so Ive watched most of your perspective videos. And that made me figure out that I just had no clue of elipses and boxes.... and inbthe middle of watching those tutorials... I had to admit I couldnt even draw lines!!!! So Im now on your warmup/lines ones.😂. Anyways, can you give me hints on drawing the helmet 3/4 but in a slight worm or bird view angle?

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for watching and commenting on my video. I have extreme or perspective views yet however Proko has a great video on extreme views. After watching my videos I think you will be able to use his more effectively. I hope you will continue to hone your drawing skills.

[@studybysurjeet12]

Thank you sir ji👍👍💪💪💪

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Your welcome. Thank you for watching.

[@johnervin1062]

Dividing it into sixths doesnt work anymore if thehead is rotated vertically in any manner other then level right? When the head is looking down, the side plane should also shift down making the top 1/6 larger and the bottom 1/6 smaller. Is there any method to adjust the initial drawing stage to account for this or do you just have to eyeball this aspect?

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

If you have drawn the loomis head a hundred times or so you will get a feel for so you can use it to create the Foreshortening for the head in the extreme views. If you are drawing from a you can use proportional measuring as well.

[@hellflipe]

45:25 what about the ellipse that chops the sphere on the other side, from that view wouldn't it be considered in this angle?

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

It could. It very close.

[@Stevethegreenmachine]

Did you use the elipse pattern tool for the elipses in your circles? I'm having the hardest time getting my elipses right because im trying to do it freehand. Great videos and explaining.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for your comment. No the ellipses are hand drawn. I practice ellipses as part of my drawing warm-ups that I do daily. If you practice drawing ellipses for 10 minutes 3 to 5 times a week. After about 6 months you will be able to draw very good ellipses. A great skill to have for drawing.

[@katierussell3695]

Would the same concept apply when figuring out perspective middle for figure drawing of the torso boxes as well as hip boxes?

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Hey Katie I haven't used it that way. It would be difficult to use effectively and a little clumsy. Construction shapes to build the torso is much more effective. However finding the centerline can be difficult. To get a feel for the centerline. Buy a 12 inch wooden drawing figure manaquin draw a centerline on it with a permanent marker then practice rotating the figure and place the center line from observation. Draw 30 to 40 of these figures over a 3 to 4 month period. Do 3 a week something easy. Give yourself 10 to 15 minutes to do each drawing. Keep things as simple as possible and you will learn to place the centerline fairly effectively.

[@AndyGibbo]

i think for the last two heads you needed to cut off some on the left hand side of the globe and then find the centre line because you should, at that angle, see some of the cut off from the left

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Hello Andrea I appreciate you watching the video. I enjoyed your comment. In terms of seeing the left side becaise of perspective, you wouldn't see the left side. Not on these views anyways. What would happen is the cut around the corner on the left side, begins to affect the sphere and you get a slight flattening of the curve from the cut plane around the corner, on the left side as the head turns towards the front at a certain point. Its very subtle unless you are close to front view.

[@SHJshorts]

@@KevinMcCainStudios very true...it's clearly visible...n u can measure the distance from center I feel it's within the distance...it's irrelevant to cut on the left side.... appreciate the effort to point out and explain in-depth details for both of u guys

[@gabrielrufer8005]

Nice Video Bro

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@pattitaylor7642]

Why wasn’t the center of the cross in the box your center line of the face?

[@pattitaylor7642]

Sorry I see now that I finished the video. I am having so much fun learning this. I have been doing Watercolor portraits just eyeballing the angles but now I understand the drafting of the perspective and what a Help this will be

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@goke.studio]

I swear the answer was in the thumbnail, then I look at the length of the video seeing 1hr+ so I click cause I'm curious how you will stretch this video out

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

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[@goke.studio]

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