How To Draw Noses: Form, Placement, and Artist Study

this video is all about drawing noses we go into some basic head construction and talk about how to fit the nose on the face accurately from different angles then a brief overview of the forms of the nose then we look at how the nose reacts under different lighting schemes and most importantly we take a look at some of the best artists in the business and pick up some of their techniques for how to define noses in effective simple ways that you can try yourself if you enjoy this video please be sure to hit like and subscribe and share with your friends if you have an artist that draws noses in a way that you really like be sure to comment below and let us all know also be sure to check out our monday night draw season 1 sketchbook it's up on kickstarter right now it covers sketches from the whole first year of our live stream with a whole range of different characters all drawn live and a high quality 52-page hardcover book thank you so much for your support alright let's get on with the video [Music] before we go ahead and draw some detail to the nose anatomy i want to show a few examples of how we can place it properly on a face and so i've got my head drawn from the side here's a line for my brow this would be a line for my nose and this will be a line for my chin and my forehead here i'll lighten that down so it doesn't get in our way and here's my forehead i've got an indent here and then i come out and my eye socket is going to sit right here and so my eye will be here and it's very important to note that your nose actually comes out from your eye so it's going to be just at this level here and so this is where your nose comes in so you've got your brow it comes in here and then your nose and i've got a line defined for my nose here so i'm just going to draw that across and that's going to be the base of my nose right there and then the rest of my face is going to project downwards i've got a bit of a projection for my my chin obviously my lips will have a bit of a shape to them too but in really really simple terms this is a nose and this is how it's going to project out from the side of the face i'm going to draw a three-quarter angle here's my chin connect that for my ear there's a line for my brow line from my forehead nose and chin and these should all be even so i'm gonna draw in an eye socket here another eye socket here my cheeks this is my mouth here my chin is gonna be just about there and i really like to draw what is effectively a simplified skull or uh my for my head under drawing and my nose is going to sit right in this area but we want to make sure to reseed it from the top and so i'm going to start with a bit of a shape like this between the eyes and this is pointed downward and then my nose actually starts here and just to draw it as a really really simple shape and we'll work on this in just a minute there's gonna be my nose from a three-quarter angle i can see one side of my nose this would be the side of my nose here and the other side is invisible because we're looking at this at three quarters so my eyes line up again with where my nose projects up from the top and directly from the front so here's basically a head sketch in my ball then put a line in for my brow line in for my forehead my nose here my chin here this is my center line make sure that those are about evenly sized on either side i'm in for my chin here my ears line up between my nose and my brow draw in my eye socket shapes just like this and i've got this shape again here this points downward that's even with my eyes here and this is a very simple crude kind of a drawing for this but it's most important when you're drawing noses and really any feature of the face that they work in conjunction with the anatomy of the rest of the face and that's why i'm really going ahead and just quickly sketching in the rest of my face so my jaw starts here just about the level of my mouth which is going to be there cheeks are here or my cheekbones and so i want my nose to sit right here this is going to be the bottom of the nose here so i'm going to just draw a simple flat plane here we're not going to see the bottom of it obviously we'll get a little bit more complex and then this will be the nose from the front and this is really simplified but it just gives you an idea of how it places on the face and so if i was to look up at a face and let's draw a face that we're looking up at here's my brow my nose will be here my chin here my forehead here i'm gonna come around the side for where i want my ear placed here i'm gonna take my line from my jaw here and just draw it across even with these to make sure that i get this other side here and there's a very simplified head that we're looking up at let me lighten that down draw in my eye sockets and i find having eye sockets in is a very very helpful thing for drawing the nose so i know my eyes are going to be basically here and here and my nose is going to start right there and i've got this plane downward here and the base of my nose is here and so i want to project up from here and you can actually see the bottom of the nose here and so that's a very very simple drawing of the nose looking up at it it's really not incredibly useful for what we're gonna do in just a minute but just to give you an idea of how simple you can make that shape and make it fit on the face so we're gonna move on from that and we're gonna start actually looking at some of the structure of the nose so i'm gonna start drawing the nose from the side here's my eye socket here my eye is going to be just about here and so my nose is going to start at the level of my eye let's lighten this down and actually break down some of the form and so we're going to come out here a lot of people have a little bit of a bump here and that is actually where your skeleton sits under the nose here and the rest of this is all cartilage i'm going to erase that just for clarity and then at the tip of the nose there's a bit of a ball structure like this that hooks up under and then attaching to that is a nostril that also hooks up under and has some form just like this there's a ridge here and then the side plane of the nose here and from the front to draw a center line i've got a ball structure here that i'm going to shape just like this and then i've got this origin point for my nose here and above it i've got this plane that points downward this also points downward and this will be where my skeleton my skull actually ends and it turns to cartilage and so i bump out here just a little bit right at that point and then my nostrils connect here like wings i'm gonna draw another one here [Music] and this part here divides all the way down there's actually a real division down the center of the nose which you can see on some people and some people you really can't see quite as much and then the sides of the nose here and i find where people really start to struggle with noses is when you start looking up and down at noses so i'm going to take the same form i'm going to look down at my face here let's tilt this nose downward and so here is my eyebrow line my forehead my nose and my chin here and i'm going to draw some shapes for my eye sockets and so i'd have an eye here an eye here and my nose is going to start right along level with my eyes and then project out the base of my nose is going to connect here but it's actually going to come out from there like this and obviously that's very very simplified but you can see that as long as you know where your nose line is and your chin line you can actually use that to project it out like a very simple form so to finish that i'm going to draw the tip of my nose here and then the bridge here and i think we'll see just a little bit of the other side of the nose here and that's going to connect like this and that's going to give us a nose that works from that angle this is pointed downward here and looking up at the nose i'm just going to look at it directly from the bottom i have my ball shape from the bottom is shaped basically like this and there's a center division in here so that's going to be the shape that you're dealing with for the tip of your nose and you can see that your nostrils really just complete off of that so it makes it very easy to get your nostrils in and a proper nose shape without losing form which is something that is bound to happen if you just draw a nose like this and then just draw two nostrils in here you'll end up with something that i see very commonly that is very very formless so you really want to start again just with your simple center shape that has a division down the center and then your nostrils attach into that and it makes drawing a nose from the bottom very very easy and so taking this shape here i'm going to draw a face that we're looking up at here a bit of an angle i generally like to go with a bit of an angle because if i don't i'll end up with just this right here and it's not really as descriptive so here's going to be my brow here is the line for my nose a line for my chin and the line for my forehead [Music] and these back and give me my ear right in here my cheeks are going to be here and here i'm going to come in just about like this and my jaw level with my mouth you're not really going to see it on that side on that side you'll see it connecting right about there and so that's going to be my form [Music] and you should see a little bit of underside to your jaw i'm going to go ahead and draw in my eye sockets i think they make the nose and the eyes much easier to draw [Music] my eyes are gonna be here and here and my nose lines up here and as the base of my nose is here and i want to project it out from the face so it's going to come out just about like this so that's the really simple form that i'm going to use to place my nose and i'm going to draw the ball at the end of my nose i'm going to see some of the top of it so it's going to wrap just like this and then come under like this and my nostrils are going to connect my other nostril it's going to connect just like that and the bridge of my nose is going to connect in just like this and the rest of my face it's into the same perspective but you can see how it makes it very easy to place your nose if you're thinking about it in terms of really really simple shapes to get that placement and then just adding your relatively simple anatomy what we're doing here for this noses are actually relatively easy to draw most people when they have trouble with noses have trouble in two areas the first one is getting noses for shortened on the face at odd angles the second one is how to light a nose effectively and how to describe it with simple lines without getting overly detailed or making it look kind of fake on the page and for me this is really where this video is gonna start because the biggest challenge in drawing noses is drawing them effectively just using line and and simplifying lighting and making it work so i've got three faces i've already drawn in the simple structure for two of my noses and i'm going to draw this third nose really much more the way that i actually would because i think it might be kind of helpful to see i don't really draw this structure in quite this way when i'm drawing this is more of the way that i would do it i know that the base of my nose is going to be about here i want to come up i'm drawing this side of this ball of the ball here now i'm going to draw the nostril coming out of here i'm going to draw the top of the ball here and then just extend it to the nostril i can see a little bit of the nostril there and that's really more how i would do it but it's not really the most descriptive in terms of planes so i've got the front plane here it ducks under here and then the side of the ball of my nose and then i've got the bridge of my nose and that's this connection here but i thought it might be a little more instructive to see how i would actually approach it as opposed to drawing something that's really more form based and now that we have this i'm going to light this nose from a few different directions and we're going to look at how we can simplify lighting and get something that works in an illustrated style so the first thing i'm going to do is lighten these down because i've got all that form in there and that's great but i don't want it to interfere with the final drawing for the first example i'm going to light it from this direction here and so i want to draw the ridge of my nose here i've got a bit of a bump out here i don't want to get too carried away with that i've got the side of my the ball of my nose here my other nostril is visible just a little bit here and then i can see under here i've got this nostril here and then i'm going to draw just a little bit of this i don't want to go all the way up into here because this is really going to be where my light is and i would have the same problem if i draw this side of the nose here instantly it ends up looking very phony and that's a very common problem to have so you really want to only draw the side of your form away from the light and so now i know that i have a form that turns under here so i'm going to go ahead and just darken that and i'm going to come up over here now my nostril really could be darkened all the way through to here and just i could just make that completely dark but i find that can be very impressive looking and it starts to get too dark for what we want so what i'm going to do is i'm going to draw in the shadow from my nostril i'm going to connect this just up underneath here i'm going to go a little thicker there and just leave that open and that will give you the lighting that you're looking for but it prevents the lighting from encroaching too far into your face a similar problem can happen with lighting your eyes so i've got an eyebrow here i've got my eye here and strictly speaking based on this lighting this is a plane that points downward and i could go completely dark there but i don't like to do that because it completely blots out the eyes so what i tend to do is just cheat that a little bit so while i have this plane lit i'm not going quite as dark here and i'll give it just a little bit of lighting under the eye here just for that the fold under the eye and now i also have the problem of this plane here which is dark it turns under and i could make that completely dark but again it really can start to conflict with the face i don't want to do that so i'm going to leave that out i'm going to darken it through here and just leave a little bit a hit of light i think i'll darken that too just right here and now i'm going to draw my cast shadow and so my cast shadow from my nose is going to extend out just like this i can give it just a little bit of a bump out there because it actually has that kind of a form and then below the nose you've got your upper lip and i wanted to find that in there too and now again this is a choice i could make i could decide to light all the way from here i'm going to leave that open underneath the nostril i don't want to close that in and that's going to work pretty well to get me what i'm looking for here maybe i can come up in here and doing this is just really some people have a more defined center line between these two bits of cartilage and the tip of the nose and so i'm just defining that and that's a choice it's not something you need to do but something you certainly can do i'm gonna shadow out here into this eye and all of your shadows really interconnect so it gets very difficult for me to just put in a nose and not start to relate that to the other areas of the face there's a nose lit from a three-quarter angle you can see that i'm cheating just a little bit and drawing a shadow heavily under the nose but not shadowing too heavily under the eyebrow i could actually go quite a bit heavier here and it doesn't really interfere as badly because i can see that eye and that can really work so now for our next nose i'm going to go ahead and light it in this direction right here and so i can see my nose i can see all the i can see all of my under form there but what i want to do is define this side of the nose now and i want to avoid being dark on this side this is far more common when lighting is coming to the near side of the face it's very common to see someone define this side of the nose and then try to light it and you end up with something that looks very phony so what you want to do is just completely eliminate that line and we will entirely focus on this side of the nose and so i'm going to go ahead and darken underneath here again underneath the ball of my nose i'm going to darken my nostril which i know will be dark i'm going to darken this nostril just a little bit and catch that hit i'm doing the same thing that i did here maybe i'll give it a little bit of a bump up there i'm going to catch a little bit of light here and i want to come out for the ball of my nose here and now for this nostril this is where things can get a little bit touchy i can just go completely dark here and blot that whole thing out but that's really not what i want to do what i want to do is define in that shape there's my nostril here so this is going to be dark in here above it but i'm going to be able to see this and i think i'll start to define where that line is here and still leave it fairly open so i can see that nostril these are choices that you'll really learn through looking at other artists that do it effectively without destroying the underlying forms and without obliterating things with too much shadow you can see i even left a little bit of a hit of the light underneath that nostril and i'm gonna leave that we'll see if that'll work or not and it really keeps things very very readable i've got these shapes defined here just above my lip hook this just a little bit over under that nostril and then this will be dark here going into this brow i've got my eye here go nice and simple with this and i don't want to completely go dark here so i'm going to try and leave just a little bit of light here a little bit of a bump out there and i feel like my nose has maybe a little more shape than i'd like it to have i'm going to bring this in just a little bit and erase back make this just a little bit more straight and this can shadow pretty heavily into the eye socket here and there's going to be the shadow for my nose and let's just darken that in so there we go now for this last nose what i'm going to do is i'm going to light it from this direction here and i want you to notice that i'm drawing all these arrows as three-dimensional shapes because it's very important that my lighting is actually pointing in toward the face because if i'd light it directly flat then you get a lot more shadow on the face and things become much more extreme which is what not what we're doing here so we're really going with a three-quarter light where we can see more of the face and so for this one here i've got this shape here and i've got the top of my nostril and with that lighting i really want to accentuate that the top of my nostril will be dark my actual nostril itself will be dark i'm going to make it a little bit larger here than here because it's going to pick up a little bit of light in here bring this under here just a little bit maybe bring that over so you can see the top of the the ball of the nose and then i'm going to have a shadow just along here away from the light in here it's going to stop here because this will actually start to catch some light and then i'm going to run along the ridge this is my eye socket and this is why it's so nice to be defining things using let me draw my eye in here it's so nice to be defining things using using eye sockets because i can use that as a basis for my lighting and i i could leave it like this or i can actually cast my shadow upward from the nose like this and go just a little bit deeper with it that's really allowing the nose to cast a shadow up i can come here and start to draw just a little bit a bit of that ridge here i want to draw a little bit of the hook here i can see just a little bit of the division between my cartilage here i'm just going to define that and then define in my other nostril here and then kind of come around now i'm coming into the light here so i want to be very careful to not get too carried away and now this starts to actually come away from the light which is coming from here so i can give it a little bit of a hit or shadow here too if i want it will work and we'll see and there we go i felt like i was coming up a little bit too high for that cartilage i wanted to shadow part of it here so i brought that down let me clean this up and i wanted to bring this down a little bit too because i was defining that plane change too high and there's gonna be a nose lit from below and now we're gonna move on to what i think is really the most useful way you can learn to draw noses we have four of my favorite artists here this is alan davis i've got mike mignola i've had this book for a while part of it somewhere else i don't know i need to get another copy this is greg capulo and finally we have kevin nolan this book is so old that it has my name on it from the old studio i used to work at where we all used to steal each other's books i've got a few with other people's names on them so i can't complain all right i'm gonna go ahead and start with alan davis here's a great example of a nose that's being lit from the front very similar to what i did in my second drawing lighting noses and so i'm gonna draw this face essentially and i want to tell you that i debated very heavily in showing other artists to use his reference in order to be able to do this because i know a lot of people really encourage drawing from life and i really encourage that too but the fact is for cartooning drawing from life and finding lighting that's that succinct and simple and broken down is very very difficult and and learning to draw for you will be much more streamlined if you take in the knowledge and experience of countless phenomenal artists that have come before and so i'm going to draw in my basic nose structure i know the base of my nose is going to be about here just like this and there's going to be my basic nose structure the mouth is going to be just about here we're not going to draw the mouth it's going to be about eye level so let's make sure that's lined up there and lighten this down and i know that i have a ball at the end of my nose i'm not going to do this for every picture but i want to actually make sure that we have the anatomy basically established for this one here and i've got my nostril attached to that my other nostril is going to be just about here you can only see a little bit of it from this angle and there's my basic nose and so what i'm going to do is lighten this down again and i'm going to go ahead and just try the lighting that alan davis has done here and so he's coming along the side of the ball the nose here and he's creating a shadow here he's got a shadow along here that terminates at the nostril that i've got drawn here and then he's drawing the nostril in here he's actually got it darkened all the way through the nostril and then the shadow cast from the nostril here he's got a bit of a shadow under the nose here you can see that's actually that line kind of defines the center line of the nose and then you can see just a little bit of this nostril defined here and then a shadow cast out through here there's my simplified version of allen davis's lighting on this nose and it's not perfect but i'm really not worried about getting this to be absolutely perfect to alan davis's nose this is really a study so there's there's my nose and that's really all the definition he has for this you can see that he has no detail whatsoever on the side of the nose it's just completely knocked out i should really be calling this how to swipe noses the video so here's my face i don't need this to be fully realized because we're really just working on the nose i'm going to draw an eye socket here an eye socket here the eyes are here and here we're not going to worry about the lighting on the eyes for now but i think you did it in a really interesting way my nose is going to start here it's going to project out to just about here and at the line for my nose here and there's going to be the basic structure and from here i'm going to lighten this down and let's get some of that structure in there's the center of my nose the ball at the end of my nose here's my nostril that attaches and terminates just about up here and there we go and so let me lighten that down again and now all he's done is drawn the shadow underneath the nose the ball of the nose here he's come up through the nostril here and then he's got a bit of a hit for the back of the nostril there and then just a little bit of a cast shadow downward and so he's using form very very effectively but also very simply and so that's how you can get a really simple shadow shape that works for your nose but is actually respecting the form underneath it and understanding that form makes using this sort of lighting very very effective and easy next we're going to go ahead and take a look at some like vignola this is a really great nose and so let's start to draw in the shape for our head here so here's my basic head shape if i miss a little bit and i'm not perfect not a problem because i'm just doing this for study here's one eye socket my other eye socket is going to sit just like this and my nose is going to start here i've got an eye here another eye here and the tip of my nose base of it starts here the tip is going to extend out because i'm at just a bit of an angle so here would be the tip of my nose like this my nostrils gonna connect in like this and i'm gonna see part of the other nostril on the other side connecting in just over here and so now that i've got that i'm gonna lighten this down and i'm gonna start to define it the way that he has and he's actually really broken a rule for me that is a hard and fast rule and he still makes it work because he's mike mignola but he's really drawn in the shadow on this side of that nose that's something that i really don't like to do and so i'm going to try it without it just because it's such a rule of mine and so he's got a hard good shadow here defining you can see he's got a bit of a bump out very slight here then he comes out or the ball of the nose here wraps down and then he actually kind of wraps up under here and it's really beautifully defined i love how he's defined that shape there it's got a bit of a kick out for the nostril here i'm gonna draw in just a little bit of that shape there and maybe bring this up here the way he has but not connect all the way through and we'll see how we do now i've got my nostril defined here and then he really went shadowed all the way through which we can do but we certainly don't need to do so i'm just gonna terminate it about here i think this is a real artistic choice to make that side of the face dark and it's beautiful and i love how it works but for the the sake of this i just want this to be just shadowing the nose and he's really gone dark all in here which is a choice you can make and now instead of drawing in that side of the nose what i'm going to do is he's got a bit of a shadow here on the upper lid it's got a bit of a shadow on the lower lid and they both connect to where that nose would be there i'm just going to go ahead and leave it like that and see how that works and i think that's going to work i prefer that really it needs to be your choice and this is where looking at different artists and trying out different styles and really help you define your own style another thing that mike magnola does and we're going to go ahead and look at this nose right here and i think it's really beautiful it's actually going to lead us into our next artist and i'm just going to draw the nose for this one i've got the tip of my nose defined just like this my nostril is going to connect into that and it hooks inside there and then the other nostril is really not visible from here and if it is we're not going to see it because of the shadow anyway so we'll just leave it out of there and i'm going to lighten this down and i want to show you really how he defines the nose here so he's got a really bold shape here cut here that he ends just like this pretty good size shadow here shadowing out the whole eye through here so let's just go ahead and darken that whole area in and then he's coming up here and defining his shadow from the nose like this and for his nostril he's got it defined here he's got it going thicker here and then blowing all the way to a point a very illustrated kind of a look gives a really hard interesting kind of a look and i really like here he's got a bit of a cut across the nose and he's got a bit of a line here which i feel like defines that front ball of the nose a little bit just like this and now he's coming in with a hard line here and it's very very angular and done in an illustrated way that is really different than he's actually got he fixed mine here it's cartoon in a way that's really different than i would ever approach it but it actually comes out that way and then cuts in like this but it gives it an interesting kind of a look and you can see how how drastic you can get with your shapes and still make it work if you understand the basic shapes that work underneath you can even make a design choice like this and and have it work and the last artist i want to show you is greg capoulou who i think draws incredible faces incredible noses and so we're going to go ahead and look at this page here because he has a real tendency now i'm going to start with this face so i've got my line for my brow line for my nose for my jaw drawing my eye socket you can see how the nose cuts in right at the level of the eye and he's got it coming out pretty high up here before it comes back down and then it connects in at the nose level then he's got his mouth and the chin comes out just a little bit here here it's going to be just about here and so let me lighten this down we're just going to focus in on his nose so i'm going to start here and you can see the ball of his nose he's really defining with this really interesting kind of a shape just like this so he's going from the ball at the end of the nose to the nostril and then hooking under and then drawing his nostril in here and it's a really interesting definition that i really like and i'm not going to go ahead and draw the entire face but we're going to move on to this nose here so let me draw my basic overall head the nose really always has to work in in relation to the rest of the face and so i find just drawing a nose to be actually incredibly difficult i've got an ear here my other ears here eye sockets my nose is going to start here it's going to end just about here we're looking up at the face a little bit so let me lower those ears down maybe even a little bit more of the mouth is going to be just up about here and we're going to see some of the underside of that nose and so what i'm gonna do in really simple terms there would be the underside of the nose it would be my ball and there would be the bridge of the nose connecting up in so there's my nose defined in really really simple terms let's erase that and start to use some of the shapes and detail that he's using and so he's got the ball of his nose defined just like this just with simple line and you can see that nostril peeking in there and then the outside of the nostril there he's defining the top of the ball just with some simple lines which i really like and it kind of gives it just a bit of a plain change there and then my other nostril is going to be here and you need to remember of course that you've got this shape here and so that nostril fits in just like this and this is where it's so important to know those basic underlying shapes but that's really all he needs to do to get that working and now he's got his eyebrows raised or this eyebrow a little raised so i'm going to lift that up a little bit and then my eyes are going to be just about this level here and that's really all there is to it he draws very very simple noses but they're incredibly effective i want to show you one more example of of how he defines his noses and you can see here's there's a nose here i've got this shape here i've got this shape here then my nose is actually projecting out from it and see there's the bridge of my nose it's got a bit of a shape to it he's going to the ball of his nose here that's going to be a shape just about like this the nostril is going to connect in like this and you can see just a little bit of the other nostril on this side here and so that's really the shape that we're dealing with and i'm just going to define it the way he defines it and this is where looking at other artists can be so incredibly effective versus just looking at life which i also recommend but just finding simple ways to get across your form without getting lost in in detail and subtle plane changes that can be incredibly difficult to effectively light without overdoing it be very hard and this is where it's such a great thing looking at something like grey capullo that has this so nicely broken down and so across the top of his the ball of his nose he defines it just with a couple lines here it's kicking out pretty far back here and then defining out his nostril just like this and he's got his other nostril here and this shape here and he's also you can see defining that this is dark here just with some simple lines instead of really going in here and defining that as a line he's just leaving that out and allowing the colorist to do it and he's got it slightly defined just with a little bit of a line above the nostril here [Music] makes for a very interesting technique and nicely line weighted but overall it's not overly lit which is something that's very common with with greg capullo's work he doesn't generally overshadow his faces unless he wants it for dramatic effect so now we're going to look at my personal favorite nose artist and really a lot of other things artists this is kevin nolan and he does absolutely amazing noses and this is really more the blueprint of where my noses come from you can see how well defined he has all of his forms and done in a simple enough way that you can really get a good understanding of it if you understand the underlying forms and i'm going to start with this nose here and so i've got my face let's bring it in here i'm going to try and make this fairly small i'm going to draw one eye socket here the other eye socket and this line really in order to actually fit on the face would have to contour with it i just draw it in as a simple line just to get my initial shape established so there's my eye sockets and that really starts to define in quite a bit of the nose just like that i'm going to go ahead and draw in my shape for my nose and this is where greg capullo likes to draw this kind of a shape here just with some lines that really really works something you can make part of your style very quickly and easily and so i know the basic shapes that i've got under here i'm not gonna draw all of that again what i'm gonna do is just start to work with some of his shapes and so he's got the ball of his nose defined this way and he's not lighting all around that nostril and he's actually got a bit of a shadow on the back of the nostril here so what that does is actually gives it a light that's really kind of coming from the front so it's casting a shadow around both sides just a little bit and instead of the way that greg apollo defined some of his his lines like this he's just got a few little lines defining the nose right here he's got a bit of a shadow in here and then he's got his upper lip area right there next let's try this nose right here so there's my basic head lighten that down and we'll actually start to draw the nose here using all of the forms that we already should know pretty well by now it's connecting to this is my nose line nostril's gonna sit right in here [Music] now he's got it lit really from below here and again he's got hit the edge of his nose defined and i'm gonna try and do this without doing that because really it's a rule that i like to stick to we'll see if it works and if it doesn't we'll put that line in and sometimes trying this can give you a real sense of of what works and what doesn't and why artists have made the choices that they've made and so you can see here he's got this tucking under and he's got the center of his nose defined here just a little bit he's got the ball of his nose defined with this line here and then coming up over the nostril and coming in here where the bridge of the nose starts to connect into the ball of the nose at the end here and he's got a pretty good light a pretty good shadow here and then he's really kind of cut it off here to give it a lot of give it a really good ridge here i'm gonna try that it's very different than what i would do i feel like for me making a complete break there is not gonna work i'm not gonna do it and i think that works just a little bit better for me but that's a choice and really the way that i've drawn some of the shadow in here is also based on some other drawings that he's done so it's it's not like i'm making that choice out of nothing i've made that choice out of knowledge that i have gotten from other artists and especially from kevin nolan just from his body of work and he's got his his upper lip heavily shadowed here connecting kind of into that nose just a little bit because this whole area is turning away from the light because it really connects into the nose shadow shape i'm going to draw it in there now i'm just going to go ahead and fix a few things where i think i've kind of come off i think i went just a little bit too far with that nostril and i lost some of the outer edge of that nostril and so there it is without the other edge i'm going to go ahead and define some of that in and see how i like it it is so different than how i would normally do it but it works and for the last example let's draw this nose here we're actually looking down at this nose but you can still see the nostrils which may be a bit of a cheat from that angle it's got another angle here where you actually really can't see the nostrils and that might be just a little bit more accurate but i think this really works and so we're going to give it a shot so i've got my face basically drawn in here and we just need to get the nose in and so i know my nose starts at my eye level this is my nose line i want it to project downward from here just a little bit because we're looking down at it got my center here this is my ball here and then we're gonna come up or our nostrils which are gonna connect in like this and so he's defining his nostrils just like this you can see a bit of the the hook in here but very flattened outer nostril he's really drawn in quite a bit and then a bit of rendering here just to uplight this face just a bit on that side it's got side of his nose to find here the ball the the turn of the ball of the nose is is really lowered like this so you only see just a bit of it he's got a bit of definition down the center here and then you can see he's left just a little kick light under this nostril it's got a bit of a shadow here comes up here connects in just like this [Music] and this shadow too through here and that's really it it's a very simple nose and this would be incredibly difficult for you to draw based on absolutely nothing or really photo reference which can start to make things very confusing to really see your planes and this is why looking at artists that do it so well like kevin nolan or really whichever artist you choose is such a great learning tool and i really recommend that you do it alright that's gonna be it for this one thank you again so much for watching be sure to tune in every monday night at 8 o'clock eastern for monday night draw and check the link in the description for our monday night draw season 1 sketchbook it's live on kickstarter right now your support really means a lot i will see you in the next video

Channel: David Finch

Views: 282,009

Keywords: drawing tutorial, how to draw, comic art, inking

Id: e_p0GfC9uiQ

Length: 41min 12sec (2472 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 01 2022