faces drawing basic
When you're starting out as an artist, drawing a face is likely one of the skills you're looking to master. There are plenty of options for how to do this, from cartoon and graphic novel styles to realistic portrait styles used to draw your favorite celebrities or your family and friends.
By following this guide, you'll learn how to draw a face step by step.
How to Draw a Realistic Face
Step 1: Outline the Face
Begin your drawing by deciding how much of your paper you'd like the face to take up. Using a ruler, draw a horizontal line at the top and bottom of your paper with two vertical lines around an inch from either side. In the middle, draw another horizontal line. This will form a square in the middle of your paper with the three horizontal and vertical lines extending beyond it.
Start drawing a circular curve in the upper section of the page, bringing two curved vertical lines down to the middle line. Both of these should be just outside the outside lines of the square. From these sidelines, draw a gentle curve on either side of the lower section of the page, underneath the centre square, bringing them both together at the very bottom horizontal line. This should be slightly flattered in the middle to form the chin.
Step 2: Add the Ears and Hairline
Step 3: Mark the Guidelines and Start Drawing the Eyes
Across the middle horizontal line, draw five light rectangles. Inside the second and fourth rectangles, draw an oval that overlaps the middle line. Within each oval, draw a big circle and a small circle for the eyeballs, and a slightly curved line over each for the top of the eye. At the top of the guideline rectangles, draw in the eyebrows as curved rectangle shapes. Along the bottom of the guiding rectangles, sketch in curved lines to outline the nose with the tip of the nose resting on the bottom of the guideline.
Taking your pencil, shade around the outside of the eye around the oval and up to the bottom line of the eyebrows. Shade in varying degrees of light and dark to give your eyes depth. Once you've added this shading, draw longer and shorter lines along the top and bottom of the eye itself to create eyelashes. To complete the eyes, shade very short lines in the curved rectangles of the eyebrows. Start with much harder and darker shading on the inside corners, getting progressively lighter with your pencil strokes as you work towards the outer edges. As eyebrows are typically thicker nearer the nose, this helps to make your drawing more realistic.
Step 4: Complete the Nose
Step 5: Draw the Lips
shading as you go. For the bottom lip, shade with your dark pencil around the outside edges and become gradually lighter as you move towards the middle of the lip. You can use your eraser to help keep the middle lighter. Once the lips are completely shaded, draw short and dark lines from the middle of the lips and move outwards to give the illusion of plump lips.
Step 6: Complete the Skin Shading
Step 7: Add Hair to Your Face Drawing
Finally, draw individual curved lines from the center of the top of the head that curve down around the side of the face. The lines should be darker in the middle and become gradually lighter, before darkening again along the left side of the face.You'll repeat this on the right side of the face with lighter shading, bringing the lines around the edges of the shoulders and face to complete your drawing.
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