When it comes to drawing the human figure there is probably no other part of the body that draws greater attention and struggle than the head.

We have all tried to create a likeness and realism in a face drawing at some point in our artistic journey. And when we are our own worst critic, despite our best efforts, it’s hard to see if we’ll ever reach a level of perfection we can be happy with.

But I have a solution for you.

In this quick guide I’m going to present to you a simple method that allows you to not only draw the head in proportion each time but will also enable you to draw character faces with or without reference time and time again.

And with consistent use of this one tool you are going to increase your head drawing skills in a rapid amount of time.

If you are a beginner into character design, comics or you just like to make portraits, then I think you will learn a lot from this process as we draw the human head together.

In this class we will be focussing on proportions, placement of features such as the eyes, nose and mouth and finally how to add shading and lighting to give form and 3 dimensionality to the head.

Jessica Van donselaar

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