How to draw a human face: lessons for beginners

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Learning the basics of drawing will help you become a good painter later on. People who are just learning the basics of drawing often have difficulty with how to draw a person's face with a simple pencil. In this article, we'll talk about the tricks that make this complex process interesting and not so intimidating. The lesson will be based on simple geometric shapes, on which we will “dress” the face. We will gradually understand how to draw a person. The face of a girl in full face will not be a very difficult task. So let's get started.

Of course, without anatomical knowledge, it is difficult to tell how to draw a human face, so we will use the so-called base, which will help us determine the exact location of the eyes, nose, ears and mouth. In the future, if you decide to continue drawing, you will definitely need to master the anatomical drawing of the human body.

Oval face

So, today we are learning to draw a human face, and we will start our drawing with an oval head. If we miss all the anatomical details and look at the human head schematically, we will see an oval resembling a chicken egg. We divide it into symmetrical halves with a vertical line, and then -horizontal (line of pupils). We will build on these lines.

Auxiliary lines

• The next step in the drawing, we mark the line of the forehead. Divide the upper part of the oval in half and, retreating slightly down to the pupil line (1–1.5 cm), draw a horizontal line with a pencil. Look closely at the drawing, and you will see that the part of the oval where the forehead is supposed to be is slightly larger.
• Then measure with a pencil the distance from the crown to the forehead line and mark the same segment from the chin up (to the pupil line). This will be the tip of the nose. Figuratively speaking, you divided the vertical line into three parts, the middle of which is slightly larger than the side ones.
• The line of the mouth is marked in blue in the figure. It is almost the middle of the segment from the point of the nose to the chin.
• Now let's get back to the pupil line. Divide it into 5 equal parts.
• Now we will cut off the width of the head from the oval of the face. A little hint: the width of the head will be equal to the distance from the eyebrows to the chin. We don't have eyebrows yet, but you can roughly guess where they will be. You can fix it later.



Nose, mouth, eyes

• Our eyes will be placed on the pupil line. This line is already divided into five equal parts. We are interested in 3 averages. In classical proportions, one more eye should fit between the two eyes. This means that we omit the middle part, and the following segments on the right and left are our eyes. They are marked in green on the diagram.lines. The middle of these segments will be our pupils.
• The nose, as you guessed from the picture, is marked schematically with blue lines. The width of the nose should not go beyond the "middle eye". In other words, if you lower the vertical lines from the inner points of the eyes down to the line of the nose, these will be the desired borders of the nose.
• From the middle of the pupils, lower the vertical lines down to the intersection with the line of the mouth. These will be the corners of our lips.

Ears

In the diagram, the place where the ears should be is marked in yellow. Extend the line of the nose to the intersection with the width of the head, at these points we will have the earlobes. We will adjust the height a little later.

Turn on fantasy

At this stage, we outline the contours of the eyes, eyebrows, tip of the nose, lips and ears. Here you will already see where your ears will end, approximately it will be the line of the eyebrows. We draw a little oval of the head in the area of the ears.

Final stage

Slowly erase unnecessary and interfering lines and add details. We draw stronger, add shadows, make the drawing three-dimensional. Hairstyle already to your taste.

When you draw a picture and remember how to draw a person's face, check the proportions in parallel. The location of the eyes and mouth fits into an equilateral triangle. The vertices will be located at the corners of the eyes and on the lower edge of the lips. The height of the mouth will be equal to halfthe width of the female eye, as well as the distance from the tip of the nose to the lips. And the chin in a woman's face will be equal to the width of the eye.

Now you know how to draw a human face without knowledge of anatomy. This method is one of many that help you learn the basics of drawing. Try and you will succeed.