Cara Ord

How to draw a Face

Hello Kellie,Thank you for sharing your project :) You have done a great job learning your measurements and I can see you have used the guides from the class to create this face. This is a great starting off point and with practice you will only get better and better, I really like the way you have treated the right eye (our right) and have the iris covered slightly by the top lid and resting on the bottom, this is exactly the standard resting pose for most people and really helps with the illusion of a three dimensional object (which is what drawing a portrait is). The closer we get to life proportions the stronger that illusion is. For you I would recommend continuing to hone your skills in facial structure like you have been practicing here. play around with proportion, for instance here I would make the tip of the nose wider and the lips less wide, and although I can't be sure from the crop of the photo I would probably lower the eyes to be the centre of the head. These are all subtle things and the best way to learn these changes is to actually redraw the same face a couple time each. When you redraw things you tend to pick up on little ways to improve and it helps you to grow your skill as an artist. Great job again, I look forward to seeing more of your work.Keep creating, Cara

Dear Cara, Thank you so much for your opinion I really appreciate the information, this is really going to help me understand what I'm doing right, wrong and what I can improve.  I see what you mean by the location of the eyes, and yes the nose is small I believe that I was struggling with that the most.
I will be redrawing this exercise. I'm also having fun. Thank you for your time in helping me achieve my dreams.
Kellie

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