How To Draw Faces- Front View: CARTOONING 101 #1

hey there are you new at drawing or just a current artist looking to up their cartoon game well on BJ's L and in this new series of videos called cartooning 101 I'm gonna walk you through the basics and foundations of cartooning in today's video we're gonna walk through how to draw a human head from the front on perspective I'm going to give you some proportion guides that you can use and some tips and tricks and then at the end of the video we're gonna take what we learned kind of skew those proportions so you can learn how to make dynamic and interesting characters of your very own so if you want to learn all about that more keep watching [Music] hey guys want to welcome everybody to the first video in a new series of videos called cartooning basics 101 in this new series of videos I'm gonna walk you through all kind of the fundamentals and basic building blocks of cartooning so you can become a better artist and cartoonist so this first video that I'm doing today is basically the the foundation and building blocks of drawing a face from the front perspective it's just gonna be looking straight on at the head the next video in the series I'm going to do the head as well but it's going to be looking at it from a three force perspective so keep that in mind as we go along with today's video and the reason I wanted to do these videos is because our videos have become really popular on YouTube and there's some super super successful channels out there some super popular channels that are a mostly kids that I think really do a disservice to people looking to get better at art and for beginners in general because instead of showing these basic foundations and building blocks they're actually just going in and saying you know draw a line here now draw a line here now connect these lines and I'll draw a line here and over here instead of you know going through a sketch process showing those basic shapes that make up any given object and like I said I think it's a real disservice the closest analogy I can make is if something breaks around my house or say my car I will usually try to fix it before I take it anywhere to get it fixed and I hop on YouTube to see if it's something that I can do myself and to fix so last time something went wrong with my car you know I'm able to get on YouTube find out what it is find the part order the part watch the video how to replace it so on and so forth now if a part and my other car breaks it could be the same part but it's going to be you know located differently I'm not gonna know where to find it I'm not gonna know how to get to it I don't understand how the part interacts with the rest of the car or what might be causing the problem because I'm not a mechanic so I would have to go back and watch another video so that's the closest analogy I can make is if you're not learning these basic foundations that you can use from one design to the next you're always going to be going back to that well to say okay well I learned how to draw this now how do I all this these videos hopefully will get you to the point that you can kind of draw things from your head you're not gonna have to look at reference photos and it's just gonna come a little bit more natural to you so let's get started I'm using the iPad pro 12 point 9 inch today it's a first gen model now this entire video series is going to be strictly about the foundations of drawing it's not gonna have anything to do with digital so if you want to follow along at home and you just have a pencil and paper that will work fine but using this today to show you stuff is gonna speed up the process and make these go a little bit faster so that being said let's hop into it the first thing of any head on a human design that makes it up is going to be a circle that's going to be the jumping-off point the starting point of any head so we'll just draw a circle right here on the page now the first thing we're gonna do is we're going to draw a vertical line to basically split this head up into two symmetrical sections we've got a left hand side and a right hand side that are both well pretty much the same size my line was a little bit off there so this breaks everything up just straight down the center line now the next thing we want to do is we want to draw a another line and this one's going to be in the center going horizontally and this is going to break this into four so now we've got four equal sections based on this head now the next part is we're gonna go down and we're gonna break this bottom part into two sections as well with a center line between those so we've got three lines now we've got a vertical and two horizontals this top one here is going to be our brow line and this bottom one here is going to be our eye line there we go so the first thing I want to do is draw the eyes in here kind of block out these shapes we're just going to use a circle and we're going to Center it on that line now the main thing to keep in mind I know there's a lot of different templates in ways that you can space out the eyes the main thing in car tuning to remember here if you're wanting a proportionate kind of average face is you want one eye in between these two so there should be an eyes distance between these two and we're going to talk later in this video of how you don't always have to do that but that's kind of the the good rule of thumb rule of thumb for doing one that looks like an average normal cartoon character so now that we've got those in there let's go ahead and draw in our brows so we're gonna use this brow line up top and just kind of draw in these now with this set of videos I'm going to actually go in and do a whole series of these around what we're learning today so there's going to be def separate videos all about drawing eyebrows about drawing eyes hair noses mouths so on and so forth so if I don't explain this section and these eyes and and the nose and everything super super hardcore that is why it's because there's going to be videos focused solely on those sections so just kind of follow along this is more for just the perspective and the proportions of the face so let's go ahead and kind of fill in these eyes here a little bit so we get rid of our sketch lines just do a pupil here you kind of a center with the iris around here and the main thing to remember when you're doing eyes is you know you pretty much want these to be the same size look about the same way if you're doing some expressions you might change you know the angle of them but for the the majority of it you want these to be kind of mirrored to each other I don't like using symmetry because if you look at a human's eye it's not always going to be exactly 100% perfect so I do like drawing them by hand separately so that they do kind of have that hand-drawn look and doesn't look mechanical from one side to the next so I'm gonna go and put some eyelids in here and I'm using the I think it's HB yeah an HB pencil and procreate for sketching usually I draw with the the blue ink and then go back over the blue pencil and go back over with ink but I think it's a days video doing this kind of traditionally with the the pencil is going to be a little bit better look for this video so now that we've got this in here we're gonna go down further and if you're saying to yourself wait a second this looks really weird this is way too low on here these eyes shouldn't knees be up here well the thing we're doing right now is we're blocking out the head and this is not the actual head itself this is just the upper round portion of the cranium or the skull so to kind of give you an idea our nose is gonna go down here so before we draw in everything else let me kind of block in this you can see exactly what we're shooting for so as you can tell here now that we've added this you can kind of see what we're going for as far as the the skull look this is what's going to be underneath the design and that kind of shows you why everything is placed where it is so as you can see here I've got the the nose in there so this bottom right here this is going to be there's not really a line so so much as a straight line like these it's the curved line but this is going to be our nose line down here for the nose we want this centered and I'm just going to do it's basically like a kind of pyramid triangle just block this in real quick and like I said there will be a separate video on noses so you can follow along with this real quick but not gonna get too in-depth with this today cuz I want to keep these videos kind of short and I think the best way to to do that is kind of split everything up and break it up like this and give each element its own video so now that we've got that we can go ahead and start the jawline and the chin so the jawline and the chin are really going to define your character and you need to kind of know what the look of your character is ahead of time before you start on this so my previous video I did one about kids and babies and their jaw line is actually closer to the bottom of the cranium and everything else is kind of smushed together so like with a baby here the nose would actually be further up and then you're gonna have you know a kind of smaller mouth put some hair in there so that shows you kind of a younger character having that smushed closer to the cranium jawline now if it's a regular character what we're gonna do is we're going to go ahead and start right up here and kind of pull this down off the sides and then pull it around into the chin there we go now we're gonna split this up here right to about there now you can kind of tell here by what I've done there's pretty much a rule of thirds with the head itself so you'll see this top portion here from the top down to the brow line is portion one from this down to the center of the nose here is two and then from there to here is three and you can see each section here is pretty much the same width and that's the rule of threes so if you need help as far as figuring out how far down the the jaw line should come and a regular character that's a good tool to use but then breaking this one up in half this is basically going to be where our mouth is but let's get our ears in first so for ears those are gonna start pretty much right here with the center of the eye so you can use this line here coming out that's going to be pretty much our ear line line up and then it's going to come down to about the bottom of the nose here so if you want to pull this line out further to know exactly how far down it should go that can kind of help you there and we'll just kind of block these in real quick okay now with the neck once again we're going to do a separate video on connecting the head to the body but with the next the thing to remember is the skinnier the neck the younger the character is going to read so if you do you know too wide neck number one it's going to appear older plus and you know something like this it's going to look really off because I've kind of got this young looking character with the eyes and the eyebrows and it's got this just huge neck which doesn't play very well and then also you know going to small it's gonna look really weird and super bobbly head --is-- so let's kind of go here in the center and just pull this down and that's about a good size so now we can go ahead and finally do the mouth now if we go up here and kind of in the center where this line and the center meets the the eye line if you pull down here hit the edges of the nose here down into a triangle this is gonna kind of show you on average where the mouth would be on a normal character so if we kind of use that as a guideline let's just put a little mouth in here and this is one thing to remember too with cartooning in general is you can go super super crazy and drastic with your design and you know with your perspectives and so on and so forth that's one reason why I love cartooning so much you don't have to go super realistic with it the mouth itself is you know one of the most expressive parts of the human body you can move it honestly more than any other you know facial feature to get an expression out of it so that's one thing to keep in mind you don't have to go like I did here normal you know you could do a just huge mouth here to kind of show just absolute crazy excitement or joy you could do really small mouths to show you know extreme confusion so there's a lot of different ways you can go with it but like I said for average if you just go down this triangle that's going to give you the the kind of normal perspective or proportions for a mouth so the reals drop this lip a little bit further here that's a little bit too close okay so we've got our basic head down here let's just pull this up a little bit more and and kind of throw the hair in here once again I'm going to do a full hair tutorial as well so we're not going to focus on hair too much with this either it's just kind of showing you the the completed process and the design so we'll just throw some hair in here real fast and there we go we've got a completed head so this is like I said the the jawline is gonna be one of the the main things to kind of give your character the definition and have it read like whatever type of character it is so this is one thing that I wanted to talk about next and we'll go ahead and just drop the opacity on this one and you'll see here this is why I'm using the iPad on this because it frees up some time so we're gonna keep using our same lines here since we can still see them and we're gonna use the same section for the eyes and everything else but for this we're going to actually make a female character and kind of show you some of the small changes that you'll make and proportions so that this reads more female one thing I like doing which I said you know I'll talk about in a later video but with eyes is you notice on the male character going heavier on this back part in the back that allows you to have it read like they have eyelashes with male characters you don't actually want to use eyelashes because even though we do have them it makes it look really feminine and it won't read correctly so if we just do it like this on the female character and then do it the other way on the male character it reads correctly but we'll get into that in the next video or further down the line next one will be another face one so eyebrows here are gonna be a lot thinner in a woman than a man so we'll make these and of course you know every woman's gonna be different same thing with every kid or man so this is more of kind of like a pinup style look for a female character that we're going for here same thing here with the nose proportions here are going to be a little bit different so that angled kind of triangle pyramid that I did gonna make that quite a bit smaller so she kind of has a more little like perky nose it's going to read a little bit more feminine so we've got that and now with the lips those are going to read a little bit different as well so let's just knock those in real quick okay and this is where things are gonna start to change with the jawline so like I said with the females they're going to be a little bit different jawline it's going to be a little bit more angled and a little bit smaller than the previous one like I said - this is for that kind of cute pinup so if you're doing you know a different type of woman she might have a little bit different jawline but this is to give that really kind of pixie look to it and then from here we're gonna go ahead and knock in the ears yours are gonna be a little bit closer a little bit tinier to give that more feminine look same thing with the neck here it's gonna be a little bit thinner knock that in there and then last but not least they here use the same lines kind of that we did for the boy and just change this top part so let's pull this down kinda like a bob here okay so that gives you the female character then now the one thing that I do want to stress is these are just the building blocks and the Foundation's to start out your designs since we're not working with a realism in mind or that's not our main goal what we want to do is to use these to the best of our advantage to make something different so we don't want to get locked in that this has to be the exact rule of thumb for every single design and that's what I want to talk about next so we will start out a new character here and for this character we're gonna make a kind of a bouncer at a bar or nightclub so a really kind of heavyset burly intimidating guy so we're gonna start out the same way that we did we've got the centerline here now instead of doing this centerline here for the brow and then doing another line here for the eyeline let's move everything up so let's do the brow here and then the eye line right here so everything is really close together let's go ahead and knock in this the eyes here and you'll see here not only is everything close together up here but I'm making the eyes a lot closer together as well so we usually like I said to want that one width of eye in between the two eyes and here you've got very little width in between there and this is where you kind of need to just understand the fundamentals and the basics so you can plan out your drawing to sketch it out but you need to be able to kind of be nimble with it and free to change things up that's why you know going just by those templates and you know doing no deviations from them it's going to kind of limit your work everything's going to kind of look the same and that's one of the things like I said I love about cartooning so much is you can really just take realism throw it out the window and just really stretch the limits of what is possible and capable and you're not kind of tied down by just going with the realistic proportions of everything and I think it makes for a lot more fun drawings and you can you know add a lot of character to your drawings as well so so for the nose here obviously we're not using this bottom line for the nose so we're going to go up here and rather than having the nose in between here and centered we're gonna have it you know in the center but we're going to actually go kind of big with this so let's draw our triangle pyramid again here but instead of they said being kind of small and in the normal proportions we're going super huge and stretched out so makes this guy look even funnier even bigger shade in this bottom section here okay so we've got that now we're gonna do the the jawline and here usually like I said down here we would you know pull this down here but let's actually start all the way up here this time so we're gonna pull this jaw line coming kind of straight down following this out to the sides and then back around here to the bottom so we're pulling the jaw line out just like we did before but rather than going down and following the guide that we did before we're just taking all these perspectives and proportions and exaggerating them and here too with the ears usually like I said from the the middle of the eye down to the bottom of the nose but on a large character like this one of the fun things to do is to make certain things super huge and other things super small so here it would actually look good just to draw some little tiny ears I find this works good on large characters like this because it actually makes everything else just look so much bigger and it adds kind of to that comedy effect you've got you know this massive hulking guy and he's got these really tiny little ears here I think it looks really cool and works really well so let's go ahead and add in I'm gonna kind of block in a brow here that comes across and up and over and then kind of tiny head part up here and then for the mouth let's just do once again you know if we did the triangle here you know the mouth should stretch from here to here but here's another part I think might look funny if we just do a kind of a small little mouth kind of twist it off to the side like he's kind of getting annoyed at something and then from here we can kind of add in some extra Chin's too to show he is super big and burly and there we go so that kind of showed you using that same technique that we first used the round circle with that centerline and using the eye and the brow lines just shifting them up and then pulling out the jaw how we can make a totally different type of character by taking what we learned but just kind of turning it on its head and not going and following exactly alright guys that's it for today's video as always thank you for watching if you're new to the channel welcome if you could do me a favor hit that like button if you got some information out of this video today that you're gonna use subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and hit the bell for notifications so you can get alerted when I post new videos this video was a lot of fun to do and I'm really looking forward in continuing this series and seeing where it goes like I said today's video is that straight on the next one's gonna be that 3/4 perspective of the head and we're gonna move on to drawing eyes and mouths and ears and so on and so forth bodies action poses it's all going to be part of this illustration class going forward so thanks for joining me on this trip as for me I can be found online bj delcom as well as on Instagram and Twitter at BJ Dell so until next time keep creating

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Length: 24min 31sec (1471 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 14 2019