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1. How To Draw Faces Introduction: Hi and welcome to this course on drawing portraiture faces. I'm your host, Molina, and I'm a character artists. This is something I've been
doing for a long, long time. But I wanted to show
you today how you can start drawing
character faces, portraiture faces, and realistic faces
yourself from home. The first thing that we did
to start with is a pencil. This, I'm using a
mechanical pencil today, but you can go ahead and
use a regular pencil. You want to start with a
to-be pencil if you can. A to B pencil is quite soft. And this is what I have in my mechanical pencil today
I've got some Tooby lead. So it's really important
that used to be because it gives you better
control than a HP does. If you're not quite sure on
a side of a normal pencil, you'll be able to see
whether it has to be or HB. So you need a to B pencil.
I'm going to start with that. You need an eraser. Okay? So this is really important because we want a
good quality one. This is the one I'm using. I got this one in Japan. But you can get them
pretty much anywhere. Just make sure you can
erase it beforehand. Because the worst thing
is getting an eraser and it's actually a really bad one and it just smudges everything. Okay. So what I have here, this paper, this is slightly thicker paper
than one might be used to, but you can use any paper. But I'm using watercolor paper
here because it's thicker. You can see it's a lot thicker. And it means that my watercolors don't actually
bleed to the other side. It just stays on one page. If I use no paper as maybe some of you
will be using at home, it might actually bleed through and it might
give me a crumpled luck. So today I'm using
watercolor paper. I also have a stand, which normally I use a stand because it
helps the angle today. I'm not actually going to use
that because I want you to see clearly what I'm doing. I'm going to introduce you. I'm going to show you how
to do this step-by-step. You'll be able to create
pictures just like this one.
2. How To Draw Faces Outlines: Okay, so let's get started. So I'm gonna get my pencil. So you should have
your TB pencil, either mechanical
width, TB lead, or an actual Tooby pencil. Preferably, you have one
that's already sharpened, already ready to go. If not, please go
ahead and do that because you want
a nice sharp tip, which is why I'm using
mechanical pencil for good soft outlines. Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead
and turn to a new page. You have a nice blank page here. So the very first
thing you need to think about when
doing portraiture, It's about your strokes. I'm just gonna do
it lightly here. When we're pressing, we want
to press very lightly to get these very light lines
might actually be hard to see. But we want light lines because
it makes it a lot easier to erase afterwards than if we did hard lines
and we thought, okay, this is a mistake. It's never gonna be perfect. So you will always
need to erase things, do lightly, and then
you can go over it and make dark lines
afterwards as needed. Very first important thing that I would do whenever I find, whatever I decide I
want to do something. In terms of art, I will go ahead and find a
reference image. Reference image is really
important if you're actually doing something
that's a bit more realistic because you
want the proportions. It's hard for you to know, especially as a beginner, what the proportions should be. So if you are a beginner and you haven't done much life drawing, you haven't
done much art. I would absolutely recommend getting a reference image
for you to start with, preferably one from actual life, not necessarily what
somebody else has drawn. So if I pick a reference image, I want to go ahead and decide how I'm going
to draw. Okay. Do I want the whole face there? Do I want it with the shoulders? Do I want it a bit
bigger deal on the full character for today because we're focusing on
portraiture and faces. I am going to do just the face and maybe a
little bit of the shoulder. So the best thing to start off with is first draw a circle. Okay? Depending on how big you want this face and how zoomed
in you want to be. I'm just going to draw
a rough circle. Okay? This is going to be stopped. As you can see, as I mentioned
before, it's really light, really, really light because it means I can pop it
out really easily. Then what I wanna
do is I want to draw a line through the middle. You can see my lines
aren't perfect, but you want to go
all the way through, all the way down and
you actually go into. So if I join this
line like this, we have a pointy face. No one's face is that pointy. But roughly, you can already see the start of a face,
the start of head. So I'm going to go ahead and just smooth this
line out a little bit. So I'll go down a little
bit and then I'll come back and smooth it out. I'm gonna do the
same for this side. I'm going to go down a little
bit and then I'm going to join it to where I
want the chin to me. This looks a bit more realistic. The chin is still quite small,
but depending on the face, depending on the
style, that might be what you're going
for as I am here. Next, we want to decide where we want the
other features to be. So I'm gonna go ahead and
about a third of the way down. I'm going to draw a line
all the way across. And I'm going to draw another
one parallel to that line. So you can see, this
is just a rough idea. Okay? I'm gonna go ahead and draw another one parallel
to that one. These are really rough lines because you don't
need to use rulers. The point of this is to have a rough idea of where you're
going to put everything. You don't want to
be using rulers. You don't want to be
going over the top. Okay? So roughly where we have the point where it goes down and it starts going
towards the chin. We want to go ahead and
draw our neck line. Okay? This is gonna
be a neck line. So remember this is just
a rough outline and we're going to go ahead and
start to level things out. Because I do think
there's Chen might be a little bit to point here, unless you're going for
very stylized look. Then since you
have your outline, we can assume that
we're gonna do R knows about two-thirds
of the way down. And the lips are roughly
just below that. Okay. I'm just
gonna do a line for where they should be roughly. You can see it's very, very messy at the moment,
very, very rough. So then I'm gonna go ahead
and draw the eyes. Eyes. A little bit more tricky. So I'm gonna do a whole
tutorial on them later, but I want to show you how
I would place them first. So we have our line in the middle are not going
to be from the middle. So what we need to
do is break it down. So I'm going to put a box here. I'm going to put a box same
distance here and say, I will put my box here. I'm breaking this
into pieces, right? The majority of I is going
to be within this box. Some people's eyes are
actually further away. Some people's eyes
actually closer in. So really depends on the person. But roughly, if we're
doing a generic phase, this is where I
would place my eyes. So I am going to go ahead and
I'm going to decide this. It's gonna be my
point just outside. So I'm going to draw a
nice little semicircle. And I'm going to do
the same thing here. Nice semicircle. My character has
quite big artists. I'm gonna do that
and then I'm gonna do the same for this side. You might find that if you're
doing a realistic image, the eyes might be a bit smaller. That is completely up to you. The way you do it depends on your reference image and depends on the style that
you're going for. Okay? So these are gonna be
slightly more oval-shaped. And it's a little bit awkward doing it
from this angle for me. I'm not gonna do anything
else with the eyes for now. I'll just have the basic shape. So you can see that there is a little bit
of distance here. There's a little
bit of distance. Their eyes are not supposed
to be completely identical. Nobody's face is
completely identical. So they're not going
to look identical, but people wear makeup, people do different
things to try and get the eyes to
look more similar. So if you can get
at more similar, you have a more
aesthetically pleasing face. If it looks less similar, it might be more realistic. So think about it
when you're doing it. Now, I'm not going
to fill in the eye. I am going to go ahead and put a little layer
on top of the eye. Again, depending on the person. But depending on if you
have monoliths or not, you're going to
have a little bit of a fold above your eyes. And we want to assume that
the eyebrow is gonna go roughly just above
the eyes, like this. Very rough. Okay. So we've got the startings
of our face so far.
3. How To Draw Faces Details: Okay, so the next thing
we need to think about is our facial features, our nose, and our lips. For the nose, I'm
going to go ahead. And the easiest way to
do it knows if you do a little circle in the middle
as if it's a little clown. And I do another
little circle here. And another little circle here. We have the beginnings of
the bottom of the nose. So what I'm going to go and do is I'm actually
going to connect, connect them by doing almost a little line
there underneath. And I'm going to have
a little nostril. They're going to have a little notch on the other side to make them symmetrical. I'm gonna go ahead
and connect them up. You have the star of a nose. So normally, when it
comes to shading, I'm going to do something like
this to make it easier for myself to have an idea of
where the shading should be. So the eyes should be still a distance
away from the shading. If they're too close, it's going to look a bit funky. I'm not going to
raise any lines yet. Then I'm gonna go ahead
and go for the lips. So normally you have a little
connection to the lips. So I'm gonna do this little
shape here that I know where the bottom of it should be and where the
start of the ellipses. I'm gonna go ahead with
the lips and we can do the same thing or do a
circle to another circle. And I can have another
circle connected. So roughly we want it just
above where the noses, okay, in terms of where
the lines should end. So just outside. Don't want it too much. Don't want it too little. But
this is just rough anatomy. Okay. So I'm going to connect it up. Connected up. So I'm just
going to connect it up. And you can see that it's not perfectly with where
the lines are. It's going to change as you draw because these
are just a guideline. They just baselines. So I have my basics
in the picture, but this chin is too
long for my liking. So what I'm gonna do is
I'm going to readjust. So just as I have before, just short in and out. Here we go, just smooth out. This way. It looks a lot more
realistic because an anime, they might have it more pointy. But in real life, nobody has got such
a pointy chin. We've got a bit more of a smooth general
shape for the chin. Now, depending on
your character, if you can see the ears, ears are generally going to
be around here, around here. So depending on
how big they are, how small they are, et cetera. But my character is not going
to have her ears visible. We're going to have
her hair instead. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead
and do a hairstyle her. So I'm going to
start roughly here. Again, it depends on
the character's head, depends what was sued them, and also depends on how big
of a forehead you want. So if I do one here, since this is gonna be
my rough outline of her. If I do it like this. And then I do this one. This side. I would say, it's always easier as a beginner
to start with straight hair. Straight hair is always easier. When it comes to other styles. It can get a little
bit more tricky. But it is up to you on
what style you want to do. Okay? So if I start doing that, the hair is always going to come above and out of this space. Okay? It's never going
to be this base, otherwise it's going
to look very flat. This base was just a rough
idea of the shape of the head. Not wear their hair should be the hair should always
be just above it. Because well, depending on how volumes you want
your head to be. But we want the hair
to be quiet, puffy up. Okay. So we're just doing it above. And the same thing
for this side. So here is where our
original one is. This is where we're going
to start with the hair. Because I'm going to paint this. I'm doing a really rough guide of how I'm going
to draw the hair. This is not how I would do it if I was just doing
this in pencil. But because it's
going to get painted, I don't want to put
too much detail. In other words, it gets a
bit murky with a paint. I'm just going to finish up. So just to give me an
idea, with the eyes, I can decide if I'm happy with how the face is looking
and then readjust as needed or I can go ahead
and fill in the eyes. Okay? So again, I'm gonna
do a more in details to realize because eyes are
speciality all on their own. But I'm going to go ahead and
draw a circle in the eye. I'm not going to fill
the whole thing. I'm just going to draw
a circle in the middle of the eye it depending
on where she's looking. And I'm going to do the
same one on this side. There you go. So I've
got two circles there. The reason I'm not
filling in the bottom is if you look at
anybody's picture, if you look closely enough, most people have a little bit extra where you can
see the lining. So I'm gonna go ahead and
do another line just at the bottom there so that we can see lining normally
it's like a light pink color. So I have my eye
there and I'm not going to connect it like this as a lot of beginners like to do, because we actually have
a tear ducts there. So we're gonna do a little bit of a little bump and
then connect it, a little bit of an extra
bump and then connect it. Okay, that makes the
biggest difference. When it comes to
beginner's drawing eyes. That tear duct is
very important. Now, we're gonna go ahead and just thicken out
the loan on top of the eye because that is normally where we have the mascara and where
eyelashes connect. So we're gonna go ahead
and just thicken it out so that we know to make
it a little bit darker. Normally, if I'm drawing this and I'm gonna be
doing this in pencil, I'm gonna go ahead and fill
in the detail so that I can go ahead and
finish up in pencil. But again, because I'm doing
this in colors afterwards, I don't want there to be
too much pencil because the colors are going to be
doing the talking for us. Now because I have
a rough outline. I'm going to put my pencil down. I'm actually going to get
my eraser and I'm going to start erasing the
lines that we don't want. So that's going to be the outline that we
did of the head. So I'm gonna get rid of that. Can I get rid of that? This one's fine. Gonna get rid of these lines. Can I get rid of this one? And you'll see as you
start to erase things, the face is really
coming together. And it might look
really basic right now. But because it's going
to be in watercolors, it doesn't need the
excessive detail because it gives us a cleaner workspace
to get started with. If I get rid of this
line in the middle, and you can see how easy
it is for me to erase this because I did my lines
really, really gently. I did it really lightly. If I did it any harder, it would be really difficult
for me to erase these. So all of these
unnecessary ones. And you'll find that as you get better and
better at drawing, because it's all about practice. You won't need these guidelines. I don't usually use
these guidelines anymore unless I'm doing a really complicated face
or something very, very unusual for me. I can just fried rule. But as a beginner,
these guidelines help you a lot with good proportions. And it's definitely much
more important to do good proportions than it is to be good at not
drawing guidelines. Trusts B, don't feel embarrassed if you feel
like you need to draw the guidelines because they
are very, very useful. So if I get rid of this, if you raise a little bit
too much, That's okay. You can go ahead and
fill it back in. So here is mine. I'm going to just
fill this back in. I'm going to fill this
back in because I want the hair to cover a
little bit of the face. Because I think that's a
little bit more natural. Just going to refill this
isn't going to refill this. And because I didn't really
finished the eyebrows, I'm just going to fill
in the eyebrows here. Very roughly. Remember, eyebrows don't
need to be identical. They are not
identical on people. They don't need to be
identical in pictures. They should look more like
their cousins or sisters, really than if they're twins. They're not supposed
to look identical. Especially because
people get the eyebrows done and things
change all the time. Natural eyebrows don't
need to be identical, so you can fix it
up as you want. Whatever you think that
needs a bit more tweaking. I'm just going to tweak
this a little bit. And then you should have
a good finished picture. Ready to go. Then you can go
ahead and you can either use coloring
pencils for this. You can use watercolors. You can use pencils and fill in the detail as I normally
would have done. You can leave the outline and it's up to you.
See what you do. If you're interested in
finding out how to do the details and how to do
the colors, et cetera. I'm going to do a
different lesson for that. So go ahead and check that out. But until then, good
luck with your drawing.
Mel Muhina, Transform Your Confidence In 30 Days
