Renaissance Head Drawing by Glenn Vilppu

Release date:2020

Author:Glenn Vilppu

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Table of Contents

1. How to Draw the Head With Glenn Vilppu

In this extensive lesson, master draftsman Glenn Vilppu shares with you his approach to head drawing. Glenn will begin with an in-depth lecture on head structure and features of the face. Next, he will share his thoughts on master works and analyze various artists’ approaches to head drawing.

2. Drawing the Head With Glenn Vilppu

Glenn Vilppu will teach you a practical approach to dealing with one of the most subtle and complex subjects in art: the portrait or human head. Glenn will teach you the basic structures that you need to memorize in order to build heads that are convincing in three dimensional space.

3. Constructive Head Drawing: Week 1 | Introduction to Skull Structure With Glenn Vilppu

We are pleased to share with you a 10 week-long class brought to you by Art Mentors! In this class, Master draftsman, Glenn Vilppu teaches Constructive Head Drawing. The class will focus on the anatomical structures of the skull and face, and how to draw realistic features and expressions.

4. Constructive Head Drawing | Week 2: Planes of the Face With Glenn Vilppu

We are pleased to share with you a 10 week-long class brought to you by Art Mentors! In this class, Master draftsman, Glenn Vilppu teaches Constructive Head Drawing. Glenn’s unique approach to head drawing will guide students through the process of constructing the head.

5. Constructive Head Drawing | Week 3: Planes of the Face, Continued With Glenn Vilppu

We are pleased to share with you a 10 week-long class brought to you by Art Mentors! In this class, Master draftsman, Glenn Vilppu teaches Constructive Head Drawing.Glenn’s unique approach to head drawing will guide students through the process of constructing the head.

6. Constructive Head Drawing | Week 4: Technique and Value Control With Glenn Vilppu

We are pleased to share with you a 10 week-long class brought to you by Art Mentors! In this class, Master draftsman, Glenn Vilppu teaches Constructive Head Drawing. Glenn’s unique approach to head drawing will guide students through the process of constructing the head.

7. Constructive Head Drawing | Week 5: Value Control, Continued With Glenn Vilppu

We are pleased to share with you a 10-week long class, brought to you by Art Mentors. In this class, Master draftsman Glenn Vilppu teaches Constructive Head Drawing. In this 5th lesson, Glenn will focus on controlling value through various pencil techniques and by continuously laying in darker tones over lighter tones.

8. Constructive Head Drawing | Week 6: Toned Paper With Glenn Vilppu

We are pleased to share with you a 10-week long class brought to you by Art Mentors. In this class, Master draftsman Glenn Vilppu teaches constructive head drawing. In this 6th lesson, Glenn works with toned paper, controlling values using the paper itself as a midtone.

9. Constructive Head Drawing | Week 7: Overlapping Forms With Glenn Vilppu

We are pleased to share with you a 10 week long class brought to you by Art Mentors. In this class, Master draftsman Glenn Vilppu teaches constructive head drawing. In this 7th lesson, Glenn focuses on overlapping forms around the mouth area and shows how to lay in those forms using a model skull.

10. Constructive Head Drawing | Week 8: Creating Contrast With Glenn Vilppu

We are pleased to share with you a 10 week long class brought to you by Art Mentors. In this class, Master draftsman Glenn Vilppu teaches constructive head drawing. In this 8th lesson, Glenn focuses on controlling tones and further creating proper contrast.

11. Constructive Head Drawing | Week 9: Reflected & Direct Light With Glenn Vilppu

We’re happy to share with you a previously recorded class from Art Mentors. In this class, Master draftsman Glenn Vilppu teaches constructive head drawing. In this 9th session, he focuses on showing reflected and direct light on his drawings of the model.

12. Constructive Head Drawing | Week 10: Simplified Block-ins With Glenn Vilppu

Here is the final week’s recording from Art Mentors’ 10-week class in which the masterful Glenn Vilppu teaches head construction. Working from a live model, Glenn demonstrates techniques for blocking in the head, tips for incorporating expressions into your drawings, and gives details about his personal sketchbook.

13. Drawing the Neck With Glenn Vilppu

In his human anatomy series, world-famous artist and instructor Glenn Vilppu breaks down the complex subject of anatomy for you with easy-to-understand diagrams and conceptual tools. In this lesson, Glenn analyzes the neck, breaking down the major forms as well as the anatomical components of bone, muscle, tendon, and subcutaneous tissue.

14. Drawing the Shoulder Girdle With Glenn Vilppu

In his human anatomy series, world-famous artist and instructor Glenn Vilppu breaks down the complex subject of anatomy for you with easy-to-understand diagrams and conceptual tools. In this lesson, Glenn analyzes the neck, breaking down the major forms as well as the anatomical components of bone, muscle, tendon, and subcutaneous tissue.

15. Drawing a Male Portrait in Three Colors With Glenn Vilppu

In this video lesson, world-famous artist and instructor Glenn Vilppu demonstrates an approach to drawing the male portrait in three colors. Glenn will demonstrate the process of carefully constructing the structural block-in of the head including area breakdowns.

16. Drawing a Female Portrait in Three Colors With Glenn Vilppu

In this video lesson, world-famous artist and instructor Glenn Vilppu demonstrates an approach to drawing the female portrait in three colors. Glenn will illustrate a traditional approach using a range of colors early on in the process to establish realistic tones and create a convincing look.

17. A Head Drawing Lesson from Rubens With Glenn Vilppu

In this lesson, world-famous artist and instructor Glenn Vilppu demonstrates drawing the head using a Rubens painting. You will learn how master artists construct heads three-dimensionally and then work into those heads to bring them to life.

18. Drawing the Female Head from Imagination With Glenn Vilppu

Glenn Vilppu demonstrates how to draw a female head from imagination. Glenn demonstrates how a solid construction of the head in the beginning helps to set you up for a successful result.

19. Drawing a Male Head from Imagination With Glenn Vilppu

In this video lesson, world-famous artist and instructor Glenn Vilppu demonstrates a rare master technique of drawing a realistic male head entirely from imagination. Glenn will discuss the major construction of the head and how to work into that framework, rendering with three colors, and creating a head and face with personality.

20. Drawing Facial Expressions With Glenn Vilppu

In this video lesson master artist, Glenn Vilppu will teach you how to build upon your knowledge of the structure of the head in order to capture facial expressions to bring your drawings and paintings to life.

01. How to Draw the Head 01. Lesson overview 02. Proportions of the head 03. Planes of the head Part 1 04. Planes of the head Part 2 05. Shapes of the face and skull 06. The nose 07. The eyes and mouth 08. The ear 09. Old Master Analysis Leonardo Bernini 10. Old Master Analysis Bernini Van Dyck 11. Demonstration on green toned paper Part 1 12. Demonstration on green toned paper Part 2 13. Demonstration on ochre toned paper Part 1 14. Demonstration on ochre toned paper Part 2 15. Demonstration on ochre toned paper Part 3 16. Head drawing assignment 17. Glenns approach to the assignment

02. Drawing the Head 01. Lesson Overview 02. The proportions of the head 03. Basic head construction 04. Fixing the head to the neck 05. Structure and eyes 06. Drawing the nose 07. Building the mouth area 08. The chin area eyebrows and ears 09. Robert front angle demonstration 10. Robert front angle demonstration 11. Tiffiney profile demonstration 12. Tiffiney 34 demonstration 13. Pierre 34 angle demonstration 14. Pierre front angle demonstration 15. Patrice front angle demonstration 16. Patrice down angle demonstration 17. Greg 34 angle demonstration 18. Tiffiney 34 angle demonstration Part 1 19. Tiffiney 34 angle demonstration Part 2

03. Constructive Head Drawing Week 1 Introduction to Skull Structure 01. Lesson Overview 02. WarmUp Sketches 03. Basic Proportions of the Skull 04. The Brow Bone 2 5 and 10 Min. Poses

04. Constructive Head Drawing Week 2 Planes of the Face 01. Lesson Overview 02. 5 Minute Warmup Drawings 03. Various Technique Examples and Planes of the Face 04. 30 Minute Demonstration

05. Constructive Head Drawing Week 3 Planes of the Face Continued 01. Lesson Overview 02. Analyzing Master Works Skull Drawover Demonstration 03. 25 Minute Pose

06. Constructive Head Drawing Week 4 Technique and Value Control 01. Lesson Overview 02. 5 Minute Warm Up Drawings 03. Analyzing Master Works 04. 25 Minute Pose 05. Rendering a Sketch Without a Layin

07. Constructive Head Drawing Week 5 Value Control Continued 01. Lesson Overview 02. 5 Minute Warm Up Drawings 03. Analysis of Master Works 04. 25 Minute Pose 05. Planes of the Eyes Nose and Mouth 06. 5 Minute Poses

08. Constructive Head Drawing Week 6 Toned Paper 01. Lesson Overview 02. Rendering a Nose Sketches 03. 20 Minute Demonstration 04. 15 Minute Demonstration

09. Constructive Head Drawing Week 7 Overlapping Forms 01. Lesson Overview 02. 5 Minute Warmups 03. Forms of the Mouth 25 Minute Demonstration 04. Toned Paper Demonstration

10. Constructive Head Drawing Week 8 Creating Contrast 01. Lesson Overview 02. 5 Minute Warmups Rendering Analysis 03. 25 Minute Demonstration 04. Rendering Analysis 15 Minute Demonstration

11. Constructive Head Drawing Week 9 Reflected Direct Light 01. Lesson Overview 02. 5Minute Warmups and Master Analysis 03. 20Minute Demonstration 04. Gouache Techniques Glenns Notebook 05. Demonstration in Sepia Demonstation on iPad 06. 2Minute Head Drawings

12. Constructive Head Drawing Week 10 Simplified Blockins 01. Lesson Overview 02. 5 Minute Warmups 03. Examples of Sketches and Laying in the Facial Structure 04. 5 Minute Sketches 05. 15 Minute Digital Sketch

13. Drawing the Neck 01. Lesson Overview 02. Neck in Profile 03. Movement of the Neck 04. Adding Muscle Volume 05. Back View

14. Drawing the Shoulder Girdle 01. Lesson Overview 02. Shoulder Girdle Structure 03. Muscle Structure 04. Side View and Back 05. Raising the Arm

15. Drawing a Male Portrait in Three Colors 01. Lesson Overview 02. Carefully blocking in the structure of the head 03. Using white to bring out the highlights 04. Rendering into the forms with sanguine 05. Playing with the tones and finalizing the drawing

16. Drawing a Female Portrait in Three Colors 01. Lesson Overview 02. Carefully blocking in the structure of the head 03. Hitting accents and rendering the form 04. Pushing and pulling the tones

17. A Head Drawing Lesson from Rubens 01. Lesson Overview 02. Blocking in Three Heads 03. Continuing to Construct the Head and Introducing Modeling Tone 04. Shaping the Forms with Modeling Tone and the Core Shadow 05. Introducing the White to Create a Greater Tonal Range

18. Drawing the Female Head from Imagination 01. Lesson Overview 02. The initial blockin of the head 03. Beginning to render into the structures 04. Darkening the tones pushing the values

19. Drawing a Male Head from Imagination 01. Lesson Overview 02. Laying in the Construction of the Head in Graphite 03. Working Into the Construction with Sanguine 04. Running Lines Over the Forms to Create Tones 05. Completing the Second Pass in Sanguine 06. Introducing the Black and White Pencil 07. Working Into the Hair and Shadow Areas 08. Finalizing the Drawing

20. Drawing Facial Expressions 01. Lesson Overview 02. Intro to face gesture and expression 03. Facial expression demos

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