hello Wacom family and welcome to our new
step-by-step sketch lesson. Oh did you know that it's correctly
pronounced WACOM not WACOM? Anyway
I'm sitting here in my very comfortable work space.
And I used to draw on my good old INTUOS FREE tablet in photoshop
as I've been doing for many years now. But of course you can follow me with any
kind of graphic tablet or even with a pen and a piece of paper
as well if you wish. But first of all
I hope that you will have some fun and maybe you can find some helpful
tips and tricks for your own future drawings out of this.
So I'd say let's find out
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Today I'll draw a female face for you and I'll explain what i'm doing step by
step. So let's get started with a circle.
But because drawing a perfect circle is really difficult
here is the easy way. First I draw a cross
and I mark equal distances from the middle
as it is in circles. And now with some fast strokes around it
here is our circle. So now I also need half of this circle height down
here. And some guidelines cutting the circle
into four parts. Now I take the distance from this
point to the bottom. And this will be the height of our
second circle. Here is the midpoint for the cross and I
can draw my second circle.
Now we combine these two circles into a single shape.
Fortunately there are these helpful guidelines inside my shape.
Here we got one for the eyes, one for the nose,
here's our mouth.
And up here will be our hairline. Maybe I'll also need some horizontal
positions. So I subdivide this line and I got the
position of the pupils. By the way this distance
between the pupils can also be used for the width of the
mouth.
So now for the eyes we subdivide once more. One, two, three
and four. And this was our last subdivision for today.
Now it's time for one big decision: What is the mood of the person redrawing?
The face can look happy. Depending on whether the eyebrows and the mouth
are pointing up or down. Or I don't know angry, whatever.
The most important thing for these moods, of course,
are the eyebrows. I think this face here should look
slightly happy. Maybe not too happy. Something between happy and neutral.
So I try to find the shapes for my eyebrows.
Not too high. And now our construction is finished and I personally like to
begin with the eyes. Because after
I drew them they continue to look at me while i'm drawing the rest.
And it seems to develop some kind of and personal
relationship between me and the drawing. But of course you can start with
whatever you want: Nose hole, ear. So as you can see
the upper eyelid hits the pupil here. And the effect is that the face will
directly look at the viewer in the end. Maybe this
eyelid looks a bit too evil here in the middle.
A much more easy thing to draw is the iris.
Simply a circle around the pupil. Now for the lower eyelid to find my line
more easily first I define the points I want my line
go through. I wanted to overlay the iris down here
just a little bit, and on the sides the lower eyelid starts
a little further inward. And so now I can find
the line very gently. Maybe a little upward curve on the sides.
Perfect! The next line I would say it is
the most romantic line of woman's face. The upper lid crease. It is
nearly parallel to the upper eyelid maybe a bit higher
towards its middle. So and now for the eyebrows my plan
is to start with this angle and become flatter towards the side.
I use a slightly thinner brush here than before.
And fill these areas with fast hair lines.
And always be careful not to make them too
parallel. We can also go for the iris texture a little bit.
I'm just approaching this graphically. Some fast lines from the pupil
to the iris edge. Maybe some white ones as well.
It might be a bit too dark now so I lighten it up a bit.
And finally one white point for the light reflection.
Believe me I know how to copy and paste and mirror an eye. But I always draw
two eyes. Because even if I try to draw them identically there will
always be small differences. And I want these small differences
because in life two eyes are never perfectly identical.
So that's why I don't copy and paste. The next one is our mouth. And today I
like to start with a fast simple line. This is always a bit of a
con incidence. But sometimes like here I like what happened accidentally. But of
course the mouse is not only a line. First of all in the middle there is
a kind of wide v. Upper lip I start from the edges as
symmetrically as possible Slightly ascending. And
in the middle of this we need another v.
Just soften the corners a bit, and for the lower lip I define the
bottom and both edges.
And try to make the connection as smooth as possible.
Just a very light connection line.
Now here is a simple formula for instant nose.
I draw flat u for the nose tip to reverse use on both sides.
And the nostrils start directly under these reverse u's and go up with a
gentle curve. So now I want to adjust the head shape.
I start along the upper circle from my preliminary drawing.
But here at the height of the eyes we need to point our head shape curve a bit
inwards.
These are the cheekbones and now I look for the chin.
And I want it to be a bit smaller because it will look a bit more feminine.
So from here I go up to hit the shape line.
Just have a look could be a bit more straight.
Done! Same on the other side of course. And once I finish this I always use to
check it by flipping the face horizontally. Looks
pretty symmetrical to me, maybe I'll do some adjustments later.
But first I will try the ears exactly starting
at the height of our eyes. So if you ever draw an ear you maybe
have a shape like this in mind. But if we look at a face from
the front our ear should rather look like this
maybe. Otherwise the face would sail away. I don't know.
So I start with a small curve and go straight down at the earlobe.
Just a quick instant formula for years.
So now maybe you remember our hairline up here
and I want the vertex to be a bit offset from the middle.
And I just let the hair fall down from here.
Vertex goes up to the head edge, hair is falling along the hair shape to
the ears. And from here it falls down on both
sides. By the way I forgot the neck down here.
Slightly inwards. And we also need this little crease
under the mouth and maybe a little shadow to
indicate the cheekbone. Now let's add some
more hair. When I try to find out some elegant curves for the
hairstyle for me it is important to draw them
really quickly. No slow strokes. Now to draw the hair a
bit cleaner I draw it once more by following the
preliminary hair. Maybe not really necessary here I could
have been confident with my first try.
Well as you can see there arise some areas now inside the hairstyle.
So I take a thinner brush in order to fill
these areas when one or two fast random lines each
only to indicate the direction of the hair.
Still only fast strokes. So finally we got our face done now.
If we want we can adjust some details. I'm not really happy enough with the
direction of the eyes. They seem to look a little bit to the
side. Sometimes it's a bit difficult to see
such things before the drawing is done. So this feels like
the right time to me to go into these details. There's so many
small details having such a great effect on the
appearance of a face. Especially the curve of the upper eyelid
I think women can express universes of emotions I've never heard of.
Only with their upper eyelid. I also
think this mouth is a bit too happy for me. So
I slightly flatten these corners and I think it could be a bit smaller also.
Great advantage of drawing digitally! A bit lower maybe. And
it's done! Only still need some eyelashes. I really like to forget them, I don't
know why. Okay let's go for it. I start from the
left. And I use a thin brush again with a
sharp end. And draw them downward curves always
beginning at the eyelid and going up quickly.
You don't need to fill the whole eyelid with eyelashes. Mostly it looks better
if you stop around the middle. Just like the eyebrows I want these
strokes not to be too parallel again.
Lower eyelashes are about half shorter than the upper ones.
And I also stop near the middle. Now in the end if we want we can give
the face a little bit of a color. But this should
be not the main topic of this tutorial. I'm sure that I'll do a special one
about this later. Of course you can't cover all aspects of
a creative topic in one single tutorial. I want to go into
more details and variations in future curses. Like
coloring faces from different perspectives,
faces of different ages. Hair, nose, ears and detail,
the male face and so on. Anyway this should give you some solid
foundation for drawing a woman's face. I hope you had fun and found some
helpful tips for your future drawings. I'll see you next
time. And until then I wish you happy painting.
Stay tuned, get inspired and always have fun with it!