Hi Guys,
my name's marcel and I heard some of you MIGHT still have problems... with drawing......
faces
maybe -
just a tad
I know how it feels, being surrounded
online on social media by artists that are WAY more experienced than you and
you just want to know HOW they do it; what's their approach to art.
HOW do they draw?
yeah, it sucks, I know.
I've made a really BASIC video on how drawing
BASIC faces from the front an the side works - but I figured it would be cool for you guys
to WATCH ME, how IM drawing a face in MY
style WHILE I explain what exactly
I'm doing and HOW I'm doing it.
So I just recorded my self while
drawing a face and also added some explainations and tips - you can draw along
if you wanna just so you don't have to..... y'know
yeah-
now let's take a look at the
art supplies I'm using.
Let's keep it simple!
All you would need is a piece of paper, ANY kind of pencil, traditional
or mechanical and, of course an eraser.
something that I always like to use, even
though you don't NEED it, is an eraser pen. Makes things a lot easier when you're
drawing details like eyes and you need precision while erasing. you don't need it,
but it makes life a bit less of a living hell.
Okay, we're set, that's
all, paper, pencil, eraser
,and maybe even motivation and a will to live
last one's optional though-
and In case you want to know where I get my erasers, eraser pens or pencils from, I've linked
them on my website for you guys to look up.
other than that - let's start drawing faces.
Like a Sir!
Before we start - PLEASE don't make the mistake of
drawing some 1x1 inch shriveled up mess, you have your whole paper available, so why not use it?
also, in case you're drawing along in real time, you can always just make the video a tad
slower with the playback speed.
Okay. First things first, a circle for the head
*GASP*
I know, I know, shocker.
In case you...
well, run into a roadblock here already,
I've actually made a shorts on how to draw a circle. Go ahead and check that one out.
I got used to drawing this guideline that splits the face in half - this doesnt make, like, a LOT
of sense for a front view, this is actually more helpful for more difficult perspectives,
but I just got used to drawing this guideline in every view.
The only thing left is now to connect the circle to this very guideline with a
couple of strokes, so we have a complete head.
By the way, this is probably the point where
most people start having real problems. Depending on how you're literally connecting
the dots here; your head could turn out GREAT or it could turn out like
a fusion between minecraft steve and johnny sins-
depending on the proportions here, differenc characters have different faces.
For simplicities sake, I'll keep it default here.
Take your time and try to draw
a chin with a similar angle.
I'm also adding a guideline so
the eyes stay on the same height.
Again, pretty important guideline here! I'd
say it's about double the height of the chin here. see? That's why I said the chin is
important, because if your chin is off, so will be the whole rest of your face.
And now.. that was the hard part. For real.
When I'm drawing my artworks
I always struggle the most with getting a decent looking, kidna symmetrical,
good looking base - and once I DO.. the rest is
just filling in the gaps.
So if you're the kinda person that's struggeling with drawing eyes or something, your
problem probably isn't drawing eyes, it's about drawing a base where the eye fits in properly
And, uh, I've, by the uploaded videos on how to fix thatbut Let's continue with
filling in the rest.
What's left is basically just playing sudoku, you
only have to read the clues on what goes where.
your nose obviously starts in the middle
of your face. and it ends roundabout where your jawline starts.
As you can see, I'm just blocking these facial features in.
like the mouth - your mouth is within this lower third of your face,
so that's where I'm blocking it in.
Like I said, people tend to have a lot of problems
with drawing eyes, so you could add another guide to be EXTRA sure they have the same height.
Again, that's something I'm doing too, I'm not just SAYING that.
A habit of mine is always to add a neck as well as the ears - even if they
are covered or not visible. I ALWAYS complete the whole head and neck
so that I can estimate where the character's body is actually angled towards.
that's not mandatory at all, but this is just the way I draw faces and that's nothing but
another habit that developed over the years.
and why, yes - I ALSO block in the hair sometime.
sounds redundant, but this way you can always tell if the hairstyle has too much volume.
if you're drawing in single strands right away, you don't know if it's too much
or not at a single glance.
Now, that's that!
The blockign stage.
Maybe you can now understand why I'm always
insisting of blocking things in, because if you're taking a look at your drawing, you can
now immediately spot if there's something off.
so yeah, that's your last chance to correct
something before I start to draw details.
If you've come this far, you're basically done,
because there's almost nothing more that could go wrong here. the eyes are on the same line,
you already have your hairstyle roughly planned out and your will to live
hasn't faded; so good job.
let's clean up!
I'm erasing everything that's being covered by the hair. That's also
another reason I told you not to draw too small, because if you've drawn big enough,
you should be able to erase these parts without much headaches. But yeah, with an
eraser pen this is basically a cakewalk.
Alrighty, details aren't much
either, at least for the most part.
I like to just contour the mouth
a bit and add some teeth.
that's also a habit of mine that people
have turned out; drawing open mouths.
that way, I can make faces look a bit less
flat by just ading a row of teeth.
I also always like to keep the nose petite, so I'm
just adding the nostrills and MAYBE a shadow.
I'm drawing the eyes just like I did in my
tutorial on drawing eyes and that's pretty much the way that I'm drawing a face.
In case you're not just here for the face but also the HAIRSTYLE, don't worry
- we'll also take care of that.
For the hairstyle, I always try to invision the
origin of where the hair's actually coming from.
now all that I'm doing is to add the strands
so they match up with this origin point. I also tend to double check from time to time.
if you keep this in mind as well, my technique here should be working out decently.
and that's it!
That's at least the way that I'm drawing
a face or more like.. a whole head
And now, that we're done -
May I offer you an accord?
Here's how it goes, you receive
a whole overview of this video in one image and I.. receive a like.
I think that's a pretty fair deal!
So yeah, if you liked this video, go ahead and
take a screenshot, pretty sure this cheat sheet here could help you out sometime.
I also have some more tutorials on my channel... y'know, like drawing hair,
eyes, poses and so on, and so forth.
Go ahead and give them a click. they are pretty...
uh.. okay-ish. my name's marcel and I'll see you guys next time I
upload another video!
