How to Draw the HEAD and FACE - REILLY METHOD - Art Tutorial

hey everybody welcome back to art by Galen I'm Galen isfeld and today I'm going to be going over the Riley method of drawing The Head and the face now the Riley method is something that I recently discovered uh I'm admi ttedly I've been using the Lumis method for a very long time and it's worked fine for me um up until recently I've not been so happy with my my human figures and and my faces so been working really hard to try to improve those so if you're unfamiliar with the Lumis method it's essentially just a circle divided into quars and then from that you can you can roughly gauge out the location of the nose and the mouth and you know the uh the eye sockets and everything um the reason that I love the Riley method as much as I do is simply because of how much more detail that you can actually get so we're going to turn this off and I'm going to go over this with you and we'll do it step by step there's a there's a a lot of steps so hang in okay um the first thing you want to do is uh the first few steps are much like using the Lumis method but then we will build from that starting by just doing a big circle for the head and we'll divide that in half vertically and horizontally and then we will um and then we'll slice the sides of the head off cuz nobody has a perfect like circular head um and then what we'll do is I'll take the points roughly that the sides are cut off and I will draw lines across and sort of square that a little bit just to give me some equal sections so I've got a section here section here and we'll take about that same distance and do a section at the bottom and what that does is gives us divisions of three and so we take that we've got a third a third and another third from here we need to get the chin in place so we'll figure out about how wide we want the chin to be and we'll come from these intersections here in the middle on the sides we'll come down and we'll start straying off of that sideline and and just start placing in the jaw and if that's you know you draw the jaw to whatever shap you want people vary quite a bit so it's more preference than anything here now this one looks a little bit too round for me so I'm going to pull it in