How To Draw A Face (Reference)

• Sketch Book

• Pencil

• Pen

• Color Pencils (any kind will work)

Here is the list of products that you will need to draw a face which should be extremely helpful since it’s only a few products that you can easily find around your house or at your local store.

Reference

The first thing you need to do when it comes to drawing a face is use a reference. This is the easiest step, mostly because you can find an image of a face anywhere whether is on social media or google with faces of all shapes and sizes.

Step 1: The Circle

When it comes to drawing a face you need to break it down piece by piece, so with that said the first step to drawing a face is a simple circle. When drawing the circle roughly sketch it out to the size of your choice because it not gonna matter if it’s bad it’s gonna get covered up later on anyway.

Step 2: Face Shape

The second step is to then create the actual face shape. With this step, all you want to do is start on either the left or right side and take your pencil and draw a line from the side of the circle and go straight down then pull inward creating the jaw then pull in once again to create the chin. After that is done go to the other side and repeat. After that create two half circles on the side of the face for the cheeks.

Step 4: Facial Features

When it comes to step number four, the best way to tackle the face is by starting with the nose, because it can be used as a guide to where everything can go. So for the nose draw a simple circle then draw to letter c’s that connect to the circle and then add a comma to the c’s and after that just add curved lines to both sides. As for the eyes just draw an almond and draw a small circle in that shape. For the lips just draw a line, for the actual lips just draw two curves then go to the end of each line and connect.

Step 3: Hair

For step number three which is the hair, which like I’ve said before just break it down into simple steps. So when it comes to the hair just go to the outer area and sketch out what you see and get it as close as possible, then go to the inner area and sketch that out as well. When you’re finished with that go in and add the details whether it be a few strands in the face or a hair or two sticking out of place because hair is never perfect.

Step 5: Detail

Details you can add:

• Moles

• Piercing

• Birthmark

• Freckles

• Scars

• Tattoos

• Jewlery

Now in step five which is detail, and in this step is when your drawing comes together because when you get to this stage you can have fun with it, and because of that, you can get a feel for the person along with their personality. When it comes to detail you can create a unique character and backstory just from add unique characteristics like piercings, scars, etc...Which in the end will help distinguish your drawings from one another and help them not look too similar.

In step six when it comes to coloring and shading what you wanna do is take your base color and color everything with that base color, for example, the face, what you wanna do with that is taking the peach color and color everywhere there’s skin once that is done take a purple-brown color and trace the face, nose, and lips and blend. Once you get here you can do both blending and shading because the brown you’ll use works well with the peach color and works well as a shadow color which helps bring the drawing to life.

Finally, step seven is the completed stage by this stage if you followed this guide you should finally know how to draw a face or at least something that looks like a face, and in a way know what colors work best with one another and have a better understanding for when it comes to drawing a face and more confident.