How to Draw the HEAD and FACE - REILLY METHOD 3/4 View - Art Tutorial 

Thank you for this. Using the Reilly Method/Abstraction has really helped me draw faces without reference. Even WITH reference, I struggled to draw a believable looking face! As a frustrated comic book artist, the Reilly method is my preferred method and I'd always wondered why there were no three quarter head profile lessons anywhere. This tutorial is perfect!

I've tried the Loomis method, but my eyes weren't always in proportion, but ever since I've found out about this Reilly method, drawing faces got so much easier. Thanks alot.

For practice I'd recommend getting a styrofoam ball and cutting off the sides and putting on a simple clay nose wedge and just draw it from all angles over and over again until you go insane.

Thank you so much for your patient step by step instructions. As you said I couldn’t really find a decent tutorial on the Reilly Method. Also thank you for just teaching and not talk talk talking about everything under the sun like some instructors.

For over a year now I struggled on the Loomis and Reilly method only to give up on both of them. Your videos have finally enabled me to understand the Reilly method and use it successfully. Thank you so much for sharing and describing it in a way that it can be understood. From now on I will always use the Reilly method.

I frickin loved it and the way you take a second to explain and describe the placement of the guideline or the purpose for the guideline was very helpful and really helped to remember and just understand... I think you're videos have been the most helpful and I been using RU-vid to learn how to draw for about 8 months and I take about 3 to 4 hours out of each and every day to practice so im sure you can imagine how many videos I've watched.. so thank you very much.. for being awsome... YOU ROCK!!

This is an extremely helpful tutorial. I've struggled with facial proportions and this helps so much, especially for a 3/4th view. It's hard finding specific angle references so I find learning this will help me draw without a need of those types of angle references. Thank you!

Thank you so much for putting together a tutorial on the 3/4 angle of The Reilly Methode. I love the way in which you go slow enough for me to draw at the same time. I have struggled so much with drawing accurate faces but for some reason, I can remember the step in this method and I am so excited.

Very Useful. Never Imagined (when i went thro your video of Reilly Method ) that there could be a 3/4 view. Thank you

Again...I appreciate the clarity of information provided in your videos! Thank you Galen! :)

Yes incredibly helpful. I will be looking at this demo often.

Thank you Galen! wonderful information and really happy that I have found your Tutorials !

oh man, thank you. I studied the Reilly Method for the figure with Fogarty at the Art Students League a long time ago, but we never covered the face. Years ago online I tried to find anything on the Reilly method and had a really hard time. I knew it was a great method and wanted to study a Reilly face. No one covers the side view it seems online so I really appreciate this. I had trouble with what seems to be more guesswork on the side view because I wanted the divisions to correspond exactly. Thank you for making it clear that there is some bit of these angles that must be done with some amount of 3D intuition. I would have had a lot of trouble otherwise since the forward view is so specific. Thank you again so much. This was clear and you didn't labor over it and make it tedious. I was able to follow both front and side views that you've taught here. I am going to look up your art now! You have my gratitude.

I appreciate you taking the time to do this. You'll see that I try to use the Reilly abstraction a lot in the art videos on my channel, but even I will still try to brush up on my skills and learn new things. So thanks for the video, and keep up the good work! - Jeff

Wow this is just so helpful. It really makes you wanna dig into this method.

Simply the best! thank you so much friend.

This is great. Thank you!

I really like It. Thanks a lot for sharing!

Thank your videos are really helping me with proportions.

The best Reilly Method tutorial on 3/4 view. Thank you.

Super helpful thanks!

Much appreciated for your effort, Galen! Thank you! :)

This is great! I'm excited to try it

Thank you so much. Loomis emphasizes the importance of learning planes and basically throws a picture of an "Asaro head" at you in his book and says we should learn this and commit it to memory... But it's so hard to do so without a reference. The Reilly Method really solves this issue for me. Thanks, now I know how to tackle this phase in my learning

It is very helpful man. Thanks for the video 👍

i love it. thank you

This is such an awesome tutorial. Straight to the point, quick, and an amazingly proportionate outcome!

Amazing sir and thank you so much

Grateful for your lessons. Thank you. Subbed

great help! esp for portrait

Thank you, this is thee best video on the method online that I've come across

Awesome tutorials! Thanks a lot.

Thanks again for another tutorial i love reilly method

Thank you so very much. I have been really struggling with this!

Great reference, Thx for putting in the effort.

Thank you so much for doing this...currently taking a evening Drawing course and we went over this last class but way to quickly! This and your previous videos were very helpful. Keep up the great videos. Much love man!

Thanks, I appreciated you doing this.

Great lesson thank you very much. I'm just starting out and was able to draw a reasonable looking face from your vid.

Galen... Thanks, I found the Reilly Method Face to be helpful. Your teaching style Rocks! This 3/4 view is valuable info.

This is cool man thanks for this

Sorry for the late upload folks! I had some issues with my computer, but all is well now! :D

WoW thank you soooo much it is hard to find a video on this subject, plus this is so well explained so again thank you 🙏🙂❤️

The eye proportions have been the hardest thing whenever I practice faces. Never have gotten it to look right unless I slavishly copy a photo reference to get proportions. Even then it's not that good. Man. It's so goddamn hard.

very helpful thank you galen

Thanks for the video. Really liked it as it might solve a lot of problems while shading a face. Thanks again 👍🏻🙏🏻

Great video, Thanks!!

Thank you so much for this tutorial it really helped me a lot!!

Awesome video,Keep it up!

Thanks a ton Galen - i have looked for ever for a step by step of this method. WOuld love to see an example looking up and down.

it's great, thank you.

Thank you for creating this vid. I followed your front view video of this method as well and it helped alot. =]

This is awesome. Really helps me place the eyes and other features. I always struggled when using the Loomis methodZ.

Amazing videos on Reilley method! Im gonna be drawing lots of these and Loomis to really get a better graps of the planes and forms of the head

Great tutorial! ❤️

And we thank you for doing this demo. Very helpful

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am a self-taught amateur painter and the one thing I like most to paint is portraits. I was struggling with getting the symmetry right and the Loomis method seemed lame to me (not intending to offend anyone) and I was getting worse results than no method. Now, with Reilley, I get better symmetry. And your video was very clear how to do it. Thanks!!!!

Your videos are gifts that keep on giving. Much thanks! (Nov 2019)

very good! thank you!

Liked and subscribed! This method is new to me, so it will take a while to refine, but it is very cool! Thank you!

SO MANY CIRCLES! SO MANY LINES! nice video :)

Great tutorial..! Thanks.

Thank u for sharing. I am a beginner, trying to learn the ins and outs of sketching. This helped me a lot.

Thank you for this.

Wow, this is incredibly helpful! And the artist is cute too so that helps

Great job

after watching virtually every single Reilly Method video on youtube i can confirm that you are objectively the best drawing instructor on this platform. not up for debate, if you disagree you are wrong sorry

Thank you!!!!

THANK YOU!

Thank you so very much!

Thank you so much

This is genius. Thank you Sir

you're my hero thanks so much :)

you explain so well every step . I find your tutorials so helpful and well well done. Thanks so much

So useful and wonderfully explained. You go at exactly the right pace for me, not too slow, not too rushed. Brilliant, I have been following a few of your videos. :)

Thanks!

Great tutorial!! made my life so much easier! haha

Great😍😍

Thanku gallen besst demonstration

Thank you for sharing this! It's so helpful 3/4 view is my favorite one to draw :)

Great video and hope have more in the future 🙊

Thank you so much. This is amazing tutorial. I can draw a face but i don't know the basic, i just draw within my imagination. Although it comes out okay . I'm so amazed and excited watching the way you teach . I appreciate it I'm looking forward for your next video.. God Bless you,.🙏

Well, you helped one artist on the verge of giving up to not do it. After some time spent looking at Reilly methods of drawing I came to the conclusion he seems to be underrated in the artist community. Loomis this, Loomis that. I am sure Reilly had some method for figure drawing, but as with the head method it's scarce. Would you consider doing something like critiques hours in the future?

Thank you sir

Very Good Tutorial :)

its verry nice i rreally appriciate

This is insane! You've actually applied Reilly onto a Loomis head!! Might try this out soon.

Thanks a lot

Very helpful,

Thx~~~~~~very helpful~

Thank you

Thank you that tutorial was very helpful to me.

Art by Galen Your video on the Reilly method is wonderfully done and has helped me visualize the placements of the facial features aline and connect however I will admit that in order for your well done tutorial, I have to develop with daily pratice. Thank you for the video.

I did it just need a lot more practice but I love it my portraits will look alive ❤️💯

I have adopted this method for portrait painting in the grisaille stage as well as drawing. It definitely helps get the balance but does not address likeness which is often where the person differs from the perfect often in the jaw area and eye shapes...i don’t find it too advanced and if you develop the reilly method theory further i would welcome another view or two. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Great video. That little oval below the nose is called the philtrum.

Thank you, found this inspirational, other than this and Andrew Loomis are there other alternative methods for construction of the head?

I have only just seen this video (and the frontal view video) finding them to be extremely helpful. Thank you. ps: the little notch between the mouth and the nose is called the Filtrum though I'm fairly sure you have been told this before now (useless information but hey!)

Great sessions . Now next it would be nice to have a reference face and apply the method to working on likeness as well please nicely 👩‍🎨

Thank you very much. this is really useful. You might also want to check the position of the right eye. It seems a little bit off

devo esercitarmi molto ma... l'ho trovato molto utile grazie per la tua bellissima lezione