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Face From Below: Worm's Eye Reference Photos
Reference photos of a face seen from below: the camera under the chin, the head tilted back between fifty and ninety degrees. Each photo below is a real person at that angle, with the landmarks that move listed underneath. Open the same search in Angle Ref to turn the angle yourself.
Shoeib Abolhassani, Unsplash License Juan Pablo Lara, Unsplash License Igor Rodrigues, Unsplash License Kyle Bushnell, Unsplash License GALINA BOGDANOVA, Unsplash License Chris Andrawes, Unsplash License 
zbigphotography (1M+ views), CC BY-SA Sherise Van Dyk, Unsplash License Hayley Murray, Unsplash License gaspar zaldo, Unsplash License Jessica Hearn, Unsplash License Fei Chao, Unsplash License
What changes at this angle
- The top of the head shows less and less, and the hairline becomes the top edge of the head's outline. Little or no hair volume shows above the hairline.
- The underside of the jaw becomes a visible plane between the chin and the throat. A band of skin runs from the point of the chin back toward the neck.
- The underside of the nose shows and the nostrils read as two dark shapes above the upper lip. The nostril openings sit higher in the picture than the lowest point of the nose tip.
- The forehead takes up less of the face and the hairline sits close above the brows. Measure brow to hairline against brow to the base of the nose; the forehead is the shorter of the two.
What goes wrong
- Drawing the full dome of the skull above a face that is looking up: the hairline is the top edge of the outline.
- Running the chin straight into the neck with no plane between them: the underside of the jaw is its own plane.
- Drawing the nostrils as seen from the front and only tilting the outline of the nose.
- Keeping the forehead a third of the face while tilting the features: the forehead is the shorter stretch.
Try it
Open the same angle in the head search and turn the skull to see the full set of results.