How I Draw Faces | Updated Tutorial

hello everyone welcome back in today's video  i'm actually going to give you guys an updated   tutorial on how i draw faces yeah you guys have  been asking for this for so long since the last   one pretty much so i'm excited to finally provide  but before we begin i have a few disclaimers that   i wanted to say there are in fact hundreds of ways  to go around drawing a face this is just how i   draw faces personally how i have developed a  sort of shorthand in drawing faces and how i   like easily remember how to draw them my method is  in no way the correct one this is just how i do it   i wanted to mention that practice is honestly  the most important thing when you're trying   to perfect the way you draw faces practice does  indeed make perfect so don't rely just on this   video to get better at drawing faces and lastly  references are your best friend i'd say that the   best way that i've found in drawing faces is  drawing hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of   faces over and over again different kinds of  faces but references are generally the thing   that are going to help you build this sort of  arsenal of information about facial structures   so with all that said let's get into the tutorial  and we're starting off with the front facing face   today i'm just using a 0.7 millimeter mechanical  pencil this is just my go-to pencil so yeah just   grab your favorite pencil let's go i always start  with a circle and i draw a line down the middle   that goes out outside of the circle the circle is  basically where the brain would be essentially and   outside of that circle we're going to draw in the  jaw and this uh this jaw is just a guideline for   now it's not actually the shape of what our jaw  is going to look like but it's just like a sort of   guideline for where the rest of our face is going  to be so then i normally draw another guideline   right in the center of that middle vertical line  that we made sometimes just a little bit above the   middle just a little bit above the middle and  then i start blocking things in once i've got   all these guidelines down so where our draw line  that we drew meets the initial circle we drew um   that's where i normally block in the ears and i  normally draw the ears big enough so that they   run down and still have a little bit of jaw  before the jaw you know connects to the chin   so um yeah i just then start blocking in the the  facial features this is where you know proportions   come into play to you know showcase different age  groups or different levels of cuteness you know   the further down and the bigger the features are  the cuter your character looks um and you know as   we grow older things become a little bit smaller  and things start drooping down so that's why the   facial features seem to be like higher up so for  the eyes i normally to avoid lack of symmetry and   you know that whole thing of when you draw out  one eye and then you go to draw the other and it's   really bad um to avoid this uh what i would  recommend is to actually draw in the eyes   kind of both at the same time so instead  of drawing out one eye from start to finish   place in the different structures like on  both eyes at the same time so first i'll draw   the upper lid on both of them at the same time and  make sure that those are symmetrical and then i'll   draw in the irises and then make sure that both of  those are symmetrical and this way it saves you a   very big headache of actually trying to copy a  completely rendered eye on the other side this   way it's kind of like more balanced and they're  just less erasing you know so yeah that's kind   of my tip then for the eyelashes instead of like  drawing them out perfectly um i would recommend   you try to drawing them out more sporadically  more randomly just because people's eyelashes   normally aren't like perfectly placed like at even  distances they're just more random and natural so   yeah just try to be a little bit less perfect  with them is kind of my approach up for eyelashes   other than that i do already have a  tutorial on my channel on how to draw eyes   and i've you know drawn a bunch of eyes on  my channel before so if you want like a more   in-depth tutorial on how to draw eyes  there is a video on that on my channel for the eyebrows you guys know i love  drawing my eyebrows thick that's just   my art style that's just how i love drawing  eyebrows on my characters but yeah the normal   the general rule is that i block  in the shape of the eyebrow first   and then i'll like you know draw in all of  the hairs in their respective um directions so going on to the nose the original circle line  that we drew that the bottom of that circle is   where i normally place the nose so that's where  our nose is going to be resting the bottom of   it um so i'll draw like a circle that you know  identifies like the tip of the nose and then a   little triangle that goes up that identifies the  rest of the nose and at the bottom of this you   know sketch of the nose that we've done is where  i'll draw in the two nostrils and then draw out   the outside of the nostrils and that's pretty  much how i draw noses it's pretty quick and easy   i don't really fuss about with noses too much  just because they're probably my least favorite   thing to draw on the face so i just go through  them quickly but that's pretty much it and then   i'll just shade in the bottom of the nose to you  know signify that that's you know at the bottom   for the mouth um as i said in my old tutorial  i kind of just love really thick lips like   what i describe them as steven universe lips  and they basically just constitute of three   lines so the line in the middle of the mouth and  then the upper lip and then for the bottom lip   i normally just draw like the utmost bottom part  of the lip i don't even draw the full bottom lip   just like that i just draw the shadow  so yeah that's pretty much the mouth   um how i draw mouths for the jaw i i tend to do  my jaws quite like in the quite square so even for   when i draw like female looking faces i do like a  good chisel jaw but these are just some just some   different you know options of jaws you can go  with you can play around and see what kind of   jawlines you prefer to see on characters and  stuff but then again as i said references   are probably the things that are going to help  you have a look at different kinds of jawlines   so for the ears i just you know draw them  out uh where i block them in and this is   just a quick um like easy way to draw in the  inside of the ears um i don't think it's like   very anatomically correct but this is just how i  quickly draw in ears it's just like a backwards   three and then two curves that's basically how i  draw ears so yeah this is just my easy to remember   way of drawing the inside structures of the ear  and then i just repeat that for the other ear so then i go ahead and erase all my guidelines  because we're going to add in shadings next   so for shading you want to  start shading in lightly   shading is actually very important to bulk up  the face it can change the face a lot so identify   first where you would want the high points of  the face and the low points of the face to be   and then slowly shade in those um those areas i've  put in here like a little cheat sheet thing that   i drew out of where i normally like in my quick  sketches i normally put shadows and highlights   so if you want to use this as sort of a base  guideline go right ahead but yeah again seeing   references are going to be very important for you  here because you will naturally get accustomed   with the the human face and kind of see where  normally all the highs are and all the lows are   but the general rule of thumb is um kind of  what i just showed here so then i go ahead   and i add in hair to my face i'm not going to  be giving you guys a tutorial on hair today   just because that's a completely other situation  that i will be doing tutorial on soon i promise   yeah guys that's pretty much uh it for how i draw  a front looking face um i hope that was helpful now let's get into profile and three quarters  view so the same general quote-unquote rules   that i just showed you apply here but instead of  you know drawing the line the first line that we   drew down the center of the circle you're going  to want to draw the line it wherever you want   your face to be looking at so for the profile  view i draw the line right on the side of the   circle and then for the three quarters view i just  draw it at you know three quarters of the circle   so it's always better to identify where  you want your character to be looking   and then using that line i connect the bottom  of the line to the circle that we drew and this   is our chin and again this is something you can  play around with you can make the chin more square   or more soft or you know again this very much  depends on whose face you're drawing but yeah   so then where we um joined our line to our circle  that's where i'm going to draw in our ears and for   the face on the right here don't worry i do fix  that ear i know it's way too far to the right so   i do fix that in a sec so then we draw in the rest  of our guidelines and the same sort of rules apply   where the circle connects with the um the line  that we drew that's where our nose is gonna sit   and um i draw you know the middle line  um on our guideline that we drew etc etc   so yeah the same sort of general rules apply  and then i start blocking in the eyes and where   all the eyes are and um on the profile view  something that you're going to want to like   get accustomed to or like learn about is profile  views and the lines in the profile this is   something very different from the front-facing  view because we don't actually see any of these   lines but again i'm going to say it references  are going to be very helpful to you here   just looking at different kinds of profiles but  the general rule of thumb is that the upper lip   is normally more protruding than the bottom lip  you always have to draw in the brow bone of course   in like more female faces the brow bone is less  protruding but i actually like a nice brow bone so   i don't really mind yeah this is just a very  generic sort of profile that i've just drawn here and for the three quarters face the profile line  here on the left is kind of similar but just a   lot less nuanced so it's mainly just the hint of  a brow bone and the cheekbone is basically what   you're going to want to identify and then draw  out you know the chin and the rest of the jawline   identify where your nose is going to be again i  normally draw this where the bottom of the circle   connects to our first vertical guideline and  then i start blocking in you know the triangle   that goes up and where that connects to the brow  bone um so on our profile drawing here i blocked   in where our eye was going to be which is you know  at our horizontal line that we drew that you know   was halfway through the vertical line and then  i'll draw like this you know side triangle and   that's basically where our eye is um in profile  it's a very easy way to remember my dad always   said that it was like an a a sideways capital a  is kind of how you draw a profile i and that was   the only thing you knew how to draw but yeah  it makes sense it's a sideways a lying down   um capital a then i'll block in the eyebrows  this again is the same as in um front view just   a little bit more squished because we are looking  at it with some sort of perspective um and yeah   i'll start you know identifying where the  shadows go and i'll shade in the upper lip   i always like shade in the upper lip just to you  know identify it a little bit and then i'll draw   in you know the inside structures of the ear which  again are the same as in the front-facing view we're going to do the exact same  thing for the three-quarters view so   i drew in like a curved line on um as our  guideline for the face because the face isn't   you know a flat sheet it is slightly  curved so you want your guidelines to   translate that so that it helps you further  on when we're drawing eyes in perspective   so for example that eye on the left is going  to be a little bit smaller or it will look a   little bit smaller because it's in perspective  so it's not going to be as wide as the eye over   here on the right does that make any sense  again looking at references and at faces in   perspective you'll understand um these things  a little bit better so how you know things look   at different angles because you know things do  look different at different angles shockingly using guidelines is going to help you a lot in  terms of perspective and knowing where to block   in things at whatever angle you're drawing a face  at so i'll draw in the eyes um sort of in this on   this guideline here and then the nose actually  um i'm gonna draw like this sort of you know v   that connects the nose bridge um and i kind of  use the same technique i just don't draw the   the nostril on the far outside and that's kind of  how it works the mouth as well is the same general   technique that i use i just shortened the width  because we are looking at it in perspective so   it's not going to be as wide but again i just use  the same sort of rules for drawing the rest of the structures so then when we drew that um the line of the nose  that's actually where our um eyebrow over there   on the left is going to begin and it's going to  connect over there to the brow bone line that we   drew if things don't immediately like connect  together it's okay to just erase and make them   you know connect and make sense obviously if  something doesn't look right you know just   play around with it until it does you know um so  yeah i'll draw on the other eyebrow and the inside   structures of the ear and then i'll go ahead and  remove all the guidelines that we drew so we can   start adding the shadings in another way that you  can add in shadings instead of identifying where   the shadows are you can actually identify where  the highlights are and then you know color in   the negative space um it's whatever way you  want to do it and there's no again there's   no correct way of doing things there's just  whichever way feels best to you so yeah i   just identified the highlights of the face  and just kind of shaded in the the rest and do so once that was done i just kind of  added in some hair to just make the   the faces look a little bit more finished and just  show you guys how they would look with a hairline   um again i will give you guys a hair tutorial  don't worry it's it's coming soon i promise   and then add in the next again the necks are  very subjective if your art style demands for   you know asks for a thinner neck like a more  doll like neck or thicker neck that's up to you   it's just play around with it and see what you  prefer and on that note let's get into perspective   which is something that i'm still a little bit  struggling with but i'll give you guys my best   you know tips on it using the sort of guideline  rules um that i normally use you always want to   draw your guidelines to help you identify where  your face is looking so if i wanted this face to   be looking downwards i will draw my you know eyes  guideline the horizontal guideline facing down so   lower on the face and the rest of the structures  are going to be aligned with that with that line   everything is going to be a lot more squished at  the bottom of this circle that we drew initially   because of course the face is looking down so  everything's going to be squished downwards   and you're barely going to see the eyes and  the barely going to see the mouth because it's   going to be pretty much you know hidden behind the  nose or underneath the nose i guess and yeah it's   just again playing around with perspective and  practicing looking at references and just kind of   studying the face at different angles drawing to  me is like studying um it it really is because you   have to learn what things look like at different  angles and kind of and practice drawing them at   those angles so that you know it becomes like  a shorthand so that one day you can just get to   the paper and do it by memory pretty much like for  example this upward face that i did here it wasn't   perfect i know i i do go back and like fix that  nose which i know is way too low down but see this   is again it's part of what i'm saying it's playing  around with it if something doesn't make sense or   doesn't look right to you try and see what looks  wrong even look up reference how many times am i   going to say reference in this video i don't know  but it just goes to show how important references   it's always important to firstly identify  where your face is looking and then add in your   respective guidelines to match that and um yeah  you'll you'll eventually after blocking things in   if some if things look right or in the right place  then you go ahead and you know render each feature   i also just drew out this little cheat  sheet for anyone if you guys want to   take like a screenshot or something  and um use it as your sort of cheat   sheet in the future so you don't have to keep  rewatching this video so i'll leave this here so yeah this is where i like fixed the nose  a little bit because i realized it did look   a little bit odd and yeah i know the face doesn't  look great but see it goes to show that i still   need to practice faces looking upwards a little  bit but the general rule of thumb is identify   where your face is looking and draw everything  else according to that so now getting into   different facial features um so far i've just been  drawing my go-to features but you gotta consider   different ages ethnicities and different  facial expressions even for each one of those   because there are a million ways to draw eyes  noses mouths heads etc because they're you know   everyone is very unique so um again this is where  reference is gonna come into play a lot because uh   you're gonna wanna look at different um you know  different references for different races different   different age groups and that's gonna help  you build this sort of arsenal of different of   different facial features you're going to want to  have those with you so that you avoid drawing the   same face every time you know you want to broaden  your your faces that you're drawing so i drew out   a bunch of examples here just you know some of the  top of my head but yeah references are going to be   your best friend on this journey of drawing faces  i hope this video was helpful this is pretty much   my pro tips on drawing faces they're nothing  crazy or super in-depth there are other amazing   videos out there on the internet that are  a lot more in-depth but this is just how i   draw faces like quickly so yeah guys um i hope  this helps go forth practice don't forget to   practice don't feel discouraged if at first your  faces don't look right because no one's no one's   faces look right on their first few tries okay  and above all have fun drawing is meant to be fun   and just the last note that i wanted to mention  is that this is sort of how i draw faces in my   personal style um but don't try to copy someone's  style so try to develop your own style and see   what you like about drawing faces and develop that  in your own unique way so yeah i hope you guys   enjoyed this video thank you so much for watching  and i'll see you guys in my next video bye

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Length: 21min 29sec (1289 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 12 2020