But only after you’ve learned the right proportions. Let these proportions be the guidelines, you’re not building a house and it won’t collapse if one eye is a bit larger than the other.įinally, be a rebel.
Then, you’ll see how this all makes sense.Īnd what’s most important, you’ll be able to draw faces with just a little practice.ĭon’t measure things down to millimeters, all faces are asymmetrical, and if you try drawing one with symmetrical precision, I promise you it’ll look weird. If you want to look at face proportions in another way, take a magazine image of a woman and try sketching all the guidelines on her face. Here are a few faces I’ve drawn following the face proportions in this post.Ĭan you believe they were all once in the “ugly stage”? There were guidelines and sketched lines all over these faces, but once they were done, and when you erase all the guidelines and paint them, they come alive. Try drawing everything as a sketch, don’t measure your lines with a detail inspection of an engineer. When you start drawing faces, you can be looser. I intentionally made her like this so that you could clearly see where everything begins and ends. You see my drawn girl above and you think she looks like a robot. Mastering face proportions: final (important) tips
EASY FACE DRAWING FOR BEGINNERS FREE
GRAB YOUR FREE FEMALE FACE PROPORTIONS GUIDE To help you even more with this, I’ve created a printable reference for you, so you can put it in your art journal, above your art table, etc. These are the steps I follow when drawing faces. What’s different are the facial features. I always draw females faces, so this tutorial shows how I do that, but the same applies to the male proportions.
If you’d like to know more about the features, check out this article about drawing female faces whimsical style.
EASY FACE DRAWING FOR BEGINNERS HOW TO
This is just a tutorial for the face proportions, not how to draw each facial feature. How do you draw simple face proportions step by step? It was really comforting when I heard this for the first time because it gave me hope I could draw faces.Īnd you can do it, too. Take the time to practice it and your hand muscles will remember all the moves you make. We’ll do a bit of geometry with guidelines and you’ll see how easy it can be to draw a face when you nail the right proportions. Seriously.Īfter you read this post and do a few exercises, you’ll be more self-confident about drawing face proportions. Let me tell you that it doesn’t have to be that hard. Are you dying to draw faces but you feel like a complete beginner and face proportions make you scared out of your wits?
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