How to Draw a Female Face: Step by Step
Step 1: Sketch an oval shape.
Just a sketch, you can alter it later.
I use a 4B pencil.
Step 2: Draw a line down the centre of the oval.
Step 3: Draw a line across the middle of the oval.
Step 4: Sketch an oval eye either side of
the middle line and below the centre line.
Step 5: Mark a line for the tip of the nose
and the middle of the mouth.
Step 6: Mark a line above each eye to show the eyebrows.
Step 7: Draw a line either side of the centre line and
either side of the tip of the nose, for the ears.
Step 8: Add detail to the eyes.
Darken the top eye line and add two iris circles.
Add pupils and darken, softly tone in iris.
Add upper eye lids and look at both eyes together.
Step 9: Add two small ovals for nostrils,
and two curves for the sides of the nose.
Step 10: Find the three lines for the centre, top
and the bottom of the mouth.
Step 11: Find a good position for the bottom of the
the chin and redraw the jaw line.
Step 12: Draw a hairline towards the top of the forehead.
Add a line for the side of the neck,
below the outer corner of the eyes.
Continue with drawing the main strands of hair.
Make sure the hairstyle is bigger than the head!
Step 13: Erase the guidelines and soften
lines that are too strong.
Step 14: Start to add detail and tone to the hair, following
its natural direction.
Shade with a flat even tone, dark areas first.
Step 15: Add tone above the eye and below the eyebrow.
Add tone on one side of the nose.
Try not to use too many lines.
Add tone on one side of the face,
try to keep the tones soft.
Add tone to the upper lip and the space
below the lower lip.
Add more tone to the face and next to
the hair line.
Add more tone to the neck.
Add more tone to the eyebrows,
and the eyes.
Step 16: Add and darken the hair.
Step 17: Draw back into the eyes, building up tones.
Step 18: Start to look at the whole drawing,
building tones.
Step 19: I have speeded up the last seven minutes
of this drawing...