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Welcome to the lesson on ideal head proportions. And in this lesson we're really going to learn just a very basic system

of remembering the location of elements on the face, to get a nice normal kind of looking face, and well-proportioned

face. And how we start this is, we just draw a very rough circle and put a line down the middle to give

us a nice center line.

We then divide the circle into three equal parts.

And the bottom third dividing line, becomes our eye line.

We can then measure the space from the eye line to the top of the head, and relatively duplicate it, to

finding where we can put our chin line, and then kind of drawing in just a very basic chin shape, chin and

jaw shape.

Once the eye line is placed, we can then indicate the eye's on that line by placing them relatively in the

middle of halving each half of the head shape.

Another way you can remember this, is by thinking that there is really just one eye space between both eyes,

and three quarters of an eye space between each eye placement in the side of the head

The bottom of our circle, becomes the bottom of our nose.

You can indicate this with dots or ellipses, and then the space between the bottom of the nose and

the bottom of the chin, can be divided into three, and the top third becomes our mouth line.

Then roughly half to three quarters of an eye height above the eyes,

you can just indicate some eyebrows, but keep it very simple.

And the reason we want to indicate the eyebrows is because we want to measure out the ears, and the ears

height is determined by the bottom of the nose measured up to the top of the eyebrows.

And this gives us the height of our ears.

And these are effectively general head proportions, that make a good guide for us to achieving relatively normal

looking, not crazy crazy or weird looking heads, relatively normal looking character heads. So let's look

at these key locations.

One more time.

We start with the circle, which really is reflecting the cranium, we divided into two, to get a nice center

line for measuring, and then we divide it into thirds so that we can find our eye line. The bottom third line

becomes the eye line and then we duplicate the space between the eye line and the top of the head down

to find a chin line.

Then we place our eyes halfway between the middle line and the end of our circle.

And we draw in our eye shapes,

noting that our eye shapes can generally be an eye's width or slightly more apart, and three quarters of

an eye away from the side of the head.

So there is space on the sides of the heads as well as between the eyes.

Then, the bottom of our circle, becomes our nose, giving us our nose line, and then we divide the space

between the nose and the chin into three equal parts.

And that helps us find our mouth line which is the top line

of that third division and that's our mouth line.

And then lastly we place our eyebrows above our eyes and then we use the distance between the eyebrows and

the bottom of the nose to determine our ear height.

And those are essentially portions of the head from the front.

Now, one great thing about this particular proportional system, by using a circle first instead of using

an ovular system, where we're dividing and oval and finding half and so on. By using a circle first it

allows us to actually create heads with different jaw shapes.

For example, this person has a long face.

This person perhaps has more of a pixie kind of face, and we can use the bulk of the measurement

tools here.

These two different examples to still find the eye line

and the nose line, but using the basic rule of dividing to three here for example to find an appropriate

nose line, I mean a mouth line, that fits the proportions of this character's face, albeit long and slightly

stylized.

We can use the same rules for finding the ear height.

Similarly on this illustration as well, we can use the same rules to find that mouth line and draw it in fairly

quickly and fairly easily just by remembering our placement rules of the key features. And that's why

it's great to start with essentially the cranium for remembering your proportional rules for the head.

Right.

And those are the proportions of the head.