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Beginner Figure Drawing - Drawing The Head - Facial Features - Eyes, Ears, Nose, & Mouth

Hi Again!  Ok, I can see you're having issues with the eyes. I'll cover the other facial feature first however. First the nose - pretty good overall.  Try the be a little more careful with the top plane (the 'coffin' shape plane) as it's a little uneven in your sketches. Mouth - very good! Good shape and form, good overlapping, good positioning as well.  Keep that up.  Ears - I'd like to see a few more sketches but pretty good here as well from what I can see. You're overlapping the shapes and forms within the ear which is good, again keep this up. Now the eyes. In the first sketch you've got the general shape of the eye looking pretty good. What you're struggling with is the area around the eye (brow, eye socket and eyelids).  You've actually got the right idea with the 'donut' shapes (brow and cheek) around the eyes, what I'm noticing though it that the ball of the eye underneath is missing from the eye socket.  Without the ball in the eye socket, you don't really have anything to wrap your 'donut' shape around.  That's an important thing to practice doing when learning to draw eyes. We need to understand that each of the areas around the eye are all, to varying degrees, wrapping over it. so, the key is to understand these overlapping parts in order to draw eyes with greater accuracy.  I know you've posted a project in the 'How to Draw Eyes' class, so what I'll do is look over that project next and give you further feedback there, I can already see you've made improvement in that class.  But good work on the other facial features. Keep that up . :)

Eyes
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/b456b5d9.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/b456b5d9.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/b456b5d9.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Drawing the head- Facial features - image 1 - student project">
Eyes 
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/2d047504.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/2d047504.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/2d047504.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Drawing the head- Facial features - image 2 - student project">
Nouse
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/dcbdc346.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/dcbdc346.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/dcbdc346.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Drawing the head- Facial features - image 3 - student project">
Mouth
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/783a1784.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/783a1784.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/783a1784.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Drawing the head- Facial features - image 4 - student project">
Ears
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/19a41f45.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/19a41f45.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/0470e2b732bcbc7fa0cb840caf0e8cc6/19a41f45.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Drawing the head- Facial features - image 5 - student project">

Drawing the head- Facial features

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