Drawing a face - step by step

Welcome to Section two of the course in this section of the course, we're going to be learning how to draw a human face. Now we're just going to jump right in and start doing something that's pretty advanced, a pretty detailed face. And even if you can't do this, that's OK. Or if it doesn't look that good in the end, that's all right. The purpose of this is to kind of gauge where your drawing skills are, especially when it comes to drawing human faces. Another purpose for drawing the human face is that what I'm going to have to do is at the end of the course, you're going to come back and watch this lecture. And after learning all the things and skills that I teach throughout this course, you're going to try to draw this face again. And then I want you to compare the two, your first one and your last drawing of the same face and see how much progress you've made. It's a really good way to actually mark your progress and see that you're actually making improvements in your drawing skills. So let's go ahead and let's get started. So the first thing I want to do is I'm just going to start by sort of roughing some stuff out. So I want to figure out where I want the eyes, the nose and the mouth to be. So like I said, this is just going to be a face. So I'm going to leave out the jawline, the ears, all of that type of stuff. We're just going to do the face portion of the head. So usually what I'll do is I'll start by just kind of sketching sort of the shape of some eyes just very lightly. And I'm going to start off with a pencil because it's a little bit lighter and it's easier to erase and. Once I get that first under drawing down, then we can go back with darker pencils and add in more detail. So just kind of rushing in where I want the eyes to be and also the eyebrows. Now these can change and move. It's just because I want to start getting sort of a relationship for all these different shapes to work off of if I just start drawing in and then drawing off of that. It's a little bit more difficult than if I kind of block out some shapes and stuff before I start adding in all my detail and form and stuff like that. So next, I'm going to go ahead and do the nose, so for the nose. Just kind of do sort of a circle like that, the lips will be somewhere down here. Something like that. Now, this knows the bridge of the nose right here. That actually might be too long. I'm going to make this a female. And so we actually might want to bring that up just a tiny bit and go ahead and trace that very system here. Move the lips up. So now that we have kind of a general idea where all of this is, where all the different parts of the face are going to be, what we want to do now is we want to kind of check the proportions. So starting with the eyes, if this is where our eyes are going to be, we want to make sure that there's about an eighth distance between each eye. So that eye is that size and that eye is about that size. So they're about the same size. And what we want to make sure is that there's about the same distance between the two eyes, which it looks like there is. So that looks good if your eyes are too far apart, if this space here is wider than the width of your eye. I want to bring them together and vice versa. If they're too close together, then let's go ahead and kind of build our brow. So just coming kind of up like this and sort of an oval shape kind of get an idea of where I want my Barrales to be at the top of this oval shape. That next. Let's go ahead and figure out how big we want our nose to be. So if we just come straight down right here from where the tear duct is, that our nose shouldn't be any bigger than that right there, especially for a female. The female nose is a little bit smaller than the male nose in general. Then we'll go ahead and do lips, the lips are just going to be a little bit whiter than those that. And now we can go ahead and really start detailing this and now that we have the basic gist of where everything is and have the proportions kind of correct. So I'm gonna start with the eyebrows. So for the eyebrows, we're going to start drawing those shapes in. And again, don't be too frustrated if you can't draw exactly like I can at this point, you haven't learned the skills that you need to learn yet in order to draw like this. So just try your very best to follow along. Now, it's really important when you're drawing the human face that you really take your time and look at it, squint your eyes, turn the paper if you need to turn it upside down, whatever you need to do. But what you really want to try to get is that symmetry in there. So you want both sides. If I were to draw a line down the middle of the face, you want both sides to look kind of the same. So eyebrows can be a little bit different on both sides, but you don't want it to be drastically different or you don't want one eyebrow to be really short and the other one to be really long. Next, let's go ahead and let's start sketching in our eyes. So I'm going to go ahead and start sketching in the shape of my eye. Now, if you taking my ultimate drawing course, then you've definitely drawn an eye before. It's one of the first projects we do and the entire course and we're just basically going to do the same thing. So we're not necessarily drawing football like shapes. We really want to focus on the two lines in the eye, which is the top part of the island, so like this, so it kind of starts like a curved line like that. And then it kind of comes straight across like that, a diagonal angle. And in general, that's how a lot of eyes are shaped. Next, we're going to go head to the bottom part. The bottom part tends to be a little bit more flat. Like that, and we can go ahead and add in some eyelids, so something like this, we want it to kind of touch the corner point right there in the two corners of the eyes, and then it can kind of stretch out and get a little bit wider across the top of the eye. Do the same over here. Let's go ahead and move on to the nose, so for the nose, I'm going to go ahead, start with the outside of the nostrils. Then go ahead and start to draw the nostril holes for the nostro holes. I'm just going to basically draw two sort of curved little lines like this. No, we'll come back and really share those in finish it out. Go ahead and kind of sketch in some very light lines here just to indicate kind of the shape of the nose. So as you can see, it kind of goes in and comes back out on the back end and then back out like that. Also going to go ahead and draw and the colored part of my eye, so somewhere right about here. Now, as you can see, the top and the bottom of the colored part of the eye are covered by the eyelids. But you'll notice that the bottom part is exposed a little bit more than the top, the top has the top eyelid kind of covering it a little bit more. And the bottom, it's just barely covering the very bottom of the circle, the amount of white of the eyes you show and what what direction and what parts of the color part of the eye. You see, it really determines the expression on somebody's face. So we'll get into that later in the course. But just take note that that's pretty important. You want to try to copy what I'm doing right here. I can also go ahead and draw in a few more lines in here, just kind of indicating a little bit more of the form. So when we come back in shade, we have that information there. And I might make a little bit more sense to us. I'm going to go ahead and extend these eyebrows out just a little bit further. And I'll actually even extend them out further like this as well. Now, there's not an exact formula to how long or how big things need to be, people look completely different. And so it's really up to you to look at reference and figure out what you want your drawings of humans to look like. But in most cases, they're pretty similar. There's just going to be these small differences, such as the length of eyebrows or the length of a nose or the size of a nose, stuff like that. And this is what we call proportions. We'll get to that much later. Go ahead and mark out where I want the reflection in my eye to be. So just a little square like that. Maybe I'll do a second one up here, do the same thing on the other eye. So we're just putting the reflection right there in the center of the eye and up there in the top next. Let's go ahead and draw in the lips. So for the lips, I'm just going to go ahead and. Draw sort of a curve down shape like that and let it kind of curve in the opposite direction like this and then swoop back down like that. You'll notice that the lips are just slightly wider than the nose, you probably say that it's about two times wider than that nose right there. I'm going to go ahead and draw the bottom part of my top lip. So first we're going to line up like that. And Swoope, another one up like this, and then we kind of get this turtle looking mouth. I don't know why this just reminds me of a turtle a little bit, because it can have that pointy. Upper lip looking thing, and you kind of get the same thing on humans, it's not as prominent, but looks something kind of like that. Next, let's go ahead and draw the bottom part of the lip. So I'm just going to go ahead and bring this down like that. And just sort of draw shape like that. Go ahead and add these little creases right here on the edge of the mouth, and we're going to expose a little bit of this female's teeth, so. It's going to bring the shape down like this. And we're not going to fill in any teeth shape in general, you want to keep the teeth pretty white on people, if you draw the lines in between the teeth, it starts to get really weird looking. So in general, we just want to leave that kind of white and we'll come back and shoot it and do stuff to it. But you'll see later in the course when we start talking about how to draw mouths and teeth, how important it is, how you shade the teeth, how you add a form to them, and how you add the little spaces in between the teeth. So I'm just going to go back and touch some of this up, make sure it's kind of looking how I want it to. I think this could actually be a little bit larger. I'm going to bring it out like that. Then I can go ahead and erase some of these things that we don't need so such as the lines that are showing the proportions and stuff like that, we can go ahead and erase those. All right, perfect. So that brings us to the end of this lecture. So in this lecture, we went ahead and we did the line drawn for our face. In the next one, we're going to go ahead and take this a little bit further and we're going to add some values, some shading and all of that good stuff and really make this drawing look very realistic. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next lecture.