How to Draw Heads - Step by Step - From Any Angle

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About This Course

This course will teach you how to draw male and female comic style heads in a variety of ways.

Drawing Heads confidently is an extremely important skillset for any Artist!

In this course, you will learn how to draw a variety of heads and faces from any angle. You will learn popular techniques such as the Andrew Loomis method. Breaking down the face into thirds. How to align features of the face and establish proportions. You will also learn how to draw individual areas of the face. We will cover eyes, mouths, noses, hair, and face shapes. These individual sections will give you more confidence when constructing the entire head of your character.

This How to Draw Heads from Any Angle Course is currently at 16 Hours of Content. It includes the PDF/JPEG Art Files to work along with as well.

You will also learn how to distort or caricature the head and facial features. This allows you to come up with all sorts of inventive concepts. Not being too strict with the creation of your characters proportions can also be a lot more fun. By the end of this course you will have a firm understanding of the rules when drawing the human head as well as how to bend them for your creative needs!

This course is great for students that want to learn the basic construction techniques for drawing the human head or for more advanced artists that want to use a less structured approach. These lectures cover male and female character types with a variety of hair, expressions, face shapes, and view points.

I have also included a new section on Facial Expressions.  Here you will learn how to draw various expressions to your characters that allow you to tell a better story with your illustrations. 

Updated on 9-13-2022 - I added new lessons covering how to draw the head turned or looking away from our view. 

Updated on 4-11-2023 - I included a PDF booklet with some practice activities that will help you apply some of the major techniques to drawing heads from different angles.  I will also add more to this book over time. ( attached to Section 3 )

Updated on 3-22-2024 I added a section on drawing the planes of the head.  You will learn the Andrew Loomis method as well as some other techniques to consider.  We will draw these at various angles to help you better understand the structure of the head.

I hope you find this course to be extremely valuable and I am here to answer any questions as well as update lectures to make this a better learning experience for everyone. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Robert A. Marzullo

Ram Studios Comics

  • You will be able to draw the heads of your characters more effectively.

  • You will be able to draw more variety in your character designs.

  • You will have more confidence with drawing facial features for your characters.

Course Curriculum

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Instructor

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Robert Marzullo

I currently teach Figure Drawing, Anatomy, How to Draw Comics, and Digital Painting. My primary art programs are Clip Studio Paint, Procreate, Sketchbook Pro, and Photoshop.  I also teach traditional art methods as well.I have been a working professional artist for most of my life.  I have been published in comics, created 3D animation and characters for television, illustrated storyboards ...

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4.9 course rating
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Disco D.
5.0
7 months ago

Great course for comic book style art

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Christian G.
5.0
8 months ago

Like

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Charles M.
4.0
9 months ago

Love how it’s broken down but the demonstration he speeds through I wanted to do it with him

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Rüdiger C.
5.0
9 months ago

Informativ. Super aufgebaut! Toll!

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Edvard H.
5.0
10 months ago

For me, this is a very good course because, on the one hand, it brings simplicity to this very demanding area of ​​drawing, and on the other hand, by gradually correcting and upgrading the drawing, the author shows how, even after a very simple initial sketch, to build a high-quality and correct drawing of the human head in various viewing angles. Robert Marzullo did a great job and I'm honestly looking forward to his other courses that I've already bought but haven't gotten around to going through all of them yet.

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Fotios I.
5.0
10 months ago

This course is really great! I struggled at first understanding the head, and Robert added a Section 11 that explains the planes of the head. Way better than reading the Loomis book. It really helped me wrap around my head on where the head's landmarks are in different angles.
Comparing to the other courses I have from Robert, I think this is his best.

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Sobri B. A.
4.0
11 months ago

Despite its length (and the need to keep the momentum/motivation) I profited much from this course. As someone who follows with manual drawings, I struggled with the symmetry checking of flip flopping the images, but it's a small setback compared to the lesson learnt. Thank you, Rob.

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Roberts B.
4.0
11 months ago

I wish Robert would make more different angle refined portraits not just from 3/4 and side. Other than that it was alright course.

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Davison L. D. L. S.
4.0
11 months ago

The course is good but it still lacks a solid foundation in the fundamentals of drawing to be able to get into drawing heads, of course, it's not a course on the fundamentals of drawing but rather on drawing heads, it's in the title but I believe it's always good to teach geometric shapes first to make learning more dynamic.

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Marquise T.
5.0
1 year ago

Very informative. I feel like the instructor is hitting on a lot of common mistakes that beginner artists struggle with. Forced perspective being a good example, I tend to to do that often, even when I know it doesn't quite look right. He does well at pointing out these things so 1) you know it's not just you and 2) you're aware when it happens and you can work to correct it.

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