Hello, my name is Paul Priestley. Welcome to art-tutorialsonline.com. Now, today, we are going
to be looking at how to draw a face. This is for absolute beginners, very, very simple. But before
we start, we need a face. We're going to use this one; it's a bit old and weathered, but it will do.
Now, we're going to look at proportions. So, to do this, don't do this at home because this could
be a little bit dangerous. I'm going to take this piece of card, this piece of card here,
and I'm going to put it on either side of my eye, like that. You see that? Now,
if I put it in between my eyes, you'll notice that it is the same width as my
eye. The gap between my eyes is the same width as my eye. You see, very important.
Now, the second piece of card, this one here. Now, if I put this on my pupils – I'm going to
close my eyes for this bit – so it's on my pupils. You'll notice that it's an important measurement
because it's the same size as my nose. If I put it underneath my chin, you see it's approximately
the same size as from the bottom of my nose to my chin. Not only that, if I put it back
on my pupils again and bring it down straight like that, it's the width of my mouth. And if
I was to put it here and turn my head, it's approximately the size of my ears. You see?
Now, there's one final piece of card, which is really important, this one here. Now,
if I put this here, you'll notice that from the center of my eyes to my chin – you see
that measurement? It's exactly halfway down my skull. Because look how to do that – you see,
my eyes are halfway down my head. Now, you need to know these things if you're going to draw a face.
So, we're going to start now by drawing some very, very simple basic faces just to get these
proportions right so you can practice them. And then, in the next video, we're going to improve
drawing the faces. So, let's make a start. Come on. I'm going to use an 8B pencil simply so you
can see what I'm doing, but you can use any pencil you like for this. It's not a problem.
You'll notice I've drawn a few ovals on here. We'll go over these in a minute. Now,
we're going to go over the first one. I'm simply drawing an oval shape. Don't draw a circle;
it's not good enough. Draw an oval shape. Halfway down, if you remember, is where the eyes are going
to be. Okay, a line down the center, just to make sure everything is symmetrical. A line dividing
the area between the eyes and the chin. Horizontal line. I'm drawing the eyes. You'll notice I'm just
drawing a curve and a blob underneath. Line on top. We just draw very, very simple, basic ideas
to get the proportions right. Those two dots, two lines, that's all we're going to use. Very simple.
Anyone can do this. Simple line to represent the mouth. That's all. Now, the important thing is the
ears are alongside the top of the eyes, bottom of the nose. Don't make the ears too small. The neck,
again, don't make the neck too narrow. If you take a line out from the edges of the mouth,
it's round about there. And then, of course, the shoulders would go wider than the neck and
the head, as you can see. We're beginning to suggest here. I'm just going to suggest some
hair on top. I'll cover drawing hair properly in a later video. But there we have just a very
simple face in proportion. That's what we're aiming for, to get the thing in proportion.
Now, imagine this time we're going to draw a face where we've got the face looking upwards. Now,
this changes everything. I'm going to draw the line down the center,
but I'm not going to complete the oval shape this time. Now, the center line is this curve. You'll
see what I'm doing in a moment. That's the curve for the mouth there, okay? So, the two dots for
the eyes. You'll notice already it looks like the face is looking upwards. But this time,
we would be looking up the nose, which effectively is a triangle. So, we just
start drawing a very simple triangle shape. Put a couple of blobs underneath just to represent
the nose. You see the idea. The mouth then just becomes below that, and then the chin below that.
Now, when you've got the head looking up like this, the ears are now below the eyes. Can you see
where the ears are? Yeah, they're below the nose as well. Just a slight curve there to represent
the jaw, and you have a face looking upwards. The neck is now very long, and the shoulders are much
lower because the head is looking upwards. We just suggest a little bit of hair. You won't see
very much there, so just strengthen that line a little bit along there. You see the idea.
Now, imagine we do exactly the same thing, but this time we get the head to look down. So,
this time, we're going to get the curves to curve down. So, do the center line. This is
going to be my center line here. See how it's curving down this time? Okay, there we go. So,
the eyes now are here. So, you just need a simple blob again, two dots and a line. The triangle
shape now for the nose, pointing downwards. You see the little triangular shape, see how it does?
And the mouth is just below that. The ears are above the eyes. You see, instead of being below
the eyes in the previous drawing, that makes it look as if we're looking down on the person.
Now, if you've got your head looking down, the shoulders are much closer to the head. You see,
there's no neck. Now, you can't see this, but the best thing to
do is actually to get someone to stand in these positions, to move their heads,
and really look at what happens to the ears and the nose and the neck in relation to each other.
Right, in this one, we're going to have the drawing pointing to the left. They
are looking to the left. Now, we draw the oval shape as before, but the center line this time,
these are the horizontals, they stay exactly the same, but the center line is curved. You see,
got the curve to the right. So, what we've got to remember here is the eye I'm going to draw
now – we only see part of it, so it appears to be much smaller than the one we can see on the right
of the line. You see, you've just represented that little blob, but this one is larger because
I can see more of the eye. Again, look at a person from an angle, you'll see what I mean.
We've got the nose, just draw a very simple shape for the nose. Mouth then will be underneath that.
You see there, just pop the mouth in. Okay, small amount of mouth one side,
longer part on the other side. That's the crucial thing to remember. Now, we'll just draw the shape
of the face. We'll do this properly, as I say in a later video. I'm going to draw it. We'll
do the drawings of the faces properly. Put a bit of a chin in. We'll come back to that
in a second. The ears are going to be somewhat back here. But again, see, just above that line,
just below that line, popping the ears. Now, you'll also be able to see a little bit of the
back of the head as well here, rather strange or there, but not to wear it. So, we need to extend
the back of the head a little bit, because you'll see a little bit more of the back of the head.
The neck down, and we can see the shoulders then come down from. And again, you'd extend
the shoulders. You see the idea. But now, the face is looking to the left, all because we've adjusted
that center line. Very simple, you see, just blocking in the hair again. That's not a problem.
Now, we'll move to a face looking in the opposite direction. It's exactly the same system. So,
you have to just practice these. Just draw these oval shapes, the two horizontal lines,
and the vertical line this time again is going to be curved the other way. You see, very simple. So
again, the eye on the right-hand side of the line is smaller because we can only see part of it,
you see, because of the foreshortening effect. Put in the eyes here, you see. There we're doing the
same thing with the eyes there, so it's smaller. Putting the nose in between, comes down to that
second line there. You see, brilliant. Yeah, no suggest you there. Just very, very simply.
Okay, the same with the mouth. We'll just use a simple horizontal line again. There we go.
Looks like a sad face, this one. Not to worry. You see the line is longer to the left of the
line. Okay, we just draw the outside of the face, give it a slight little bit of shape,
and come down for a chin beneath there, up to the top. And then, we'll pop in the ears. You see,
the ears are very quite some way back again, above that line, it's like below the line. You
see the idea. Take a head, and right round a little bit more of a head there. Okay,
put in the neck and work from there. I'm just finishing off with doing the hair as well.
Now, I would suggest you try and practice as many of these as you can do because in the next video,
we're going to draw the face properly rather than just using this almost cartoon way of drawing
it. But get the proportions right. Once the proportions are right, you're almost there. So,
good luck with your drawing. Thank you for watching. I hope you've learned something
about how to draw a face in proportion. In the next video, we're going to be doing it properly.
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