Sketching and Drawing Human Faces
Pencil Sketching Human Faces
Are
you a people watcher? Do you observe people during various activities
at shopping malls, beaches, mountains, sporting events, playing with
their children, and many other activities?
Do you always have a sketch pad and pencil at hand to capture as quickly as possible an interesting face with a unique facial idiom? Watching people with their range of emotional facial expressions provides an endless supply of portrait drawings. Portrait artists take every opportunity to study faces in order to make the most of their final drawings and paintings.
Do you always have a sketch pad and pencil at hand to capture as quickly as possible an interesting face with a unique facial idiom? Watching people with their range of emotional facial expressions provides an endless supply of portrait drawings. Portrait artists take every opportunity to study faces in order to make the most of their final drawings and paintings.
Sketching Portraits
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Sketching
is a quick outlining of a subject or an object. It is an outline for
future details. The details are the essential markings for the finished
product. A sketch is a visual reminder or shorthand of notations
highlighting building elements which will be used in the finished
product.
The portrait artist draws details of the eyes, nose, lips, ears, and lines which indicate a particular human emotion or an identifying mark such as a scar or a birthmark. When painting the face; paint color is another identifying detail.
Most of us make the mistake of drawing the human head, fill in the features, look at our work, and quit. Have you done this?
Wait a minute. Do not quit and walk away from being a portrait artist so quickly.
The portrait artist draws details of the eyes, nose, lips, ears, and lines which indicate a particular human emotion or an identifying mark such as a scar or a birthmark. When painting the face; paint color is another identifying detail.
Most of us make the mistake of drawing the human head, fill in the features, look at our work, and quit. Have you done this?
Wait a minute. Do not quit and walk away from being a portrait artist so quickly.
Sketch Different Facial Angles
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Sketching Guideline
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1. Outline the head shape
2. Section off with light pencil strokes the eyes, nose, lips, ears, and chin
3. Add eyebrows, neck, and hair
4. Shade or highlight the eyebrows, eyes, lips, ears, chin, and hair
5. Write self notes, colors, and any dominant or unusual features
Just
as a writer outlines a story, likewise a sketch is the same technique.
Return at a later time frame or day to add or redraw with details
towards a finished portrait.
It would be helpful to sketch a f
Practice Lines
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Benefits of Practice
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Practice
makes perfect. Think of practicing as rehearsing to become a master. Be
patient with the learning process. Everyone progresses at a different
rate.
- Sketches are the foundation or outline to mark detailed lines
- Learning what to keep and erasing nonessential lines and errors
- Learning new experiences and challenges as each head is unique
- Improving pencil strokes to capture facial gestures
- Understanding and gaining knowledge of line strokes
Every Pencil Line Matters
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One Line Captures Emotions
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It
has been my experience after wearing out many erasers how one line can
alter a facial appearance. One line can change the appearance of the
eye, ear, nose, and mouth which in turn changes the appearance of the
face.
One line can add a smile or sadness to a face. Lines will detail age, worry, frowns, and other facial gestures or emotions. Every line you sketch on your canvas will undo or redo facial appearance. There are faces expressing happiness, sadness, loneliness, depression, doubt, fear, hate, laughter, and more.
Portrait artists will make many detailed changes to acquire an accurate facial description. Reality portraits are more demanding of details than fantasy or abstract.
One line can add a smile or sadness to a face. Lines will detail age, worry, frowns, and other facial gestures or emotions. Every line you sketch on your canvas will undo or redo facial appearance. There are faces expressing happiness, sadness, loneliness, depression, doubt, fear, hate, laughter, and more.
Portrait artists will make many detailed changes to acquire an accurate facial description. Reality portraits are more demanding of details than fantasy or abstract.
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Basic Facial Measurements and Tips
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There
are basic lessons of measurements to learn and memorize for drawing
eyes, eyebrows, noses, lips and ears as aspect of the human body has set
dimensions. As the head tilts the measurements will still remain the
same, but the angle causes confusion and you will keep the eraser busy.
Do not expect each portrait to be a masterpiece. However, as you continue to study, practice, and develop your talents the better you will become.
- Draw a circle.
- Draw a long vertical line dividing the circle in half.
- Draw a line on either side of the lower end of the circle meeting towards the end of the vertical line which marks the end of the chin.
- Draw a horizontal line halfway on the vertical line (eye placement).
- Draw a horizontal line one-third upward from the end of the chin (marks the nose tip).
- The width of the eye is the same as the distance between the eyes.
- The eyebrows are placed above the eyes on its protruding bone structure.
- The nose starts at the lower end of the eyes and its tips ends at the 1/3 horizontal mark. The nose is usually the distance between the eyes.
- The lips are often the width distance from the middle of one eye pupil to the next eye pupil. The lips are a short distance below the nose tip.
- The ears are usually the length from the eyebrows to the tip of the nose.
- The width of the neck is from ear to ear and curves before meeting the shoulders.
Do not expect each portrait to be a masterpiece. However, as you continue to study, practice, and develop your talents the better you will become.
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Sketching Guidelines for Human Face
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Tips for sketching the human face:
It would be helpful to sketch a face from a magazine or a photo. Then make a more detailed drawing and see how close the finished portrait duplicates the face. This is critical for mastering realistic portraits. Perfecting techniques will advance your talent for duplicating live models.
- Outline the head shape
- Section off with light pencil strokes the eyes, nose, lips, ears, and chin
- Add eyebrows, neck, and hair
- Shade or highlight the eyebrows, eyes, lips, ears, chin, and hair
- Write self notes, colors, and any dominant or unusual features
It would be helpful to sketch a face from a magazine or a photo. Then make a more detailed drawing and see how close the finished portrait duplicates the face. This is critical for mastering realistic portraits. Perfecting techniques will advance your talent for duplicating live models.
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Questions & Answers
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Comments
Many artists have to practice to become very skillful in their choice of art form. We are all artists, it is a matter of recognizing our specialty niche.I too drew ugly faces when I first started. It was years later when I tried again, and it worked. I can only guess that time and perspective changes helped to release the skill sets which were necessary.-
Great article. I've always envied people who can draw. Even when I was a little bit good at it, I could NEVER do faces. They always looked deformed (no offense to deformed folks :-)
You made it sound so easy--A well written and illustrated hub about drawing human faces. I like to draw and paint as well. The tricky part is to bring the desired expression on the human faces one draws so that it conveys the story we want .Thanks for sharing your expertise!-
I have struggled with this for years. Now I'm going to try your method. It's really easy to understand. Thx. Sharing everywhere.
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