Hi, I'm artist Lillian Gray and this is my drawing course.
Today's video is all about how to draw a nose.
Noses come in many shapes and sizes, and when they are prominent,
they get noticed quite quickly. But most people aren't really
that excited about drawing noses. We tend to be more drawn to the eyes.
I suppose it is because the nose adds less to our emotions and facial expressions.
Even though this makes us less intimidated to draw a nose,
a nose is actually much more complicated that what we tend to think.
In this lesson we will simplify the nose into basic shapes and four planes.
Then I'll teach you how to combine it all to draw all these various noses
We tend to think that people have long noses or short noses.
But proportionally from the brow line to the nose line most noses are much the same length.
The difference lies in the tip and the tilt of the nose, as well as the width.
The nose is the protruding structure of cartilage and fat,
built upon the bones of the face.
With some noses you can clearly see where the cartilage starts and the bone ends.
Looking at the structure of the nose we can see a nasal root, a bridge, a tip and a nostril.
The glabella is the triangular shape found just above the nose bridge.
It is a smooth part of the forehead above and between the eyebrows.
It is important to understand the glabella because it's how the nose joins the face.
Okay, so let's simplify. Let's simplify the nose down to its basic shapes.
The tip of the nose is basically just three circles, and a tiny oval added for the septum.
The front is just a square that is thinner at the top and wider at the bottom,
and with the two side planes where the nose attaches to the face.
From the side the nose is just a triangle with two circles.
Once you have established your basic shapes,
you can now proceed to define the perfect outline for your nose.
Pay careful attention to the three circles that form the tip of the nose.
How you place these three circles will determine the tilt and the width of the nose.
Before we start making things too complicated I'd like you to pause
here and first just do exercise one. I want you to look at various noises
and break them down into basic shapes. Can you see which basic shapes they are made of?
If you're feeling confident you can proceed to also shade and add texture to your noses.
Here's a tip for shading the nose.
The tip of the nose can be simplified into three circles.
When shading the nose to add form, think of these as three squares,
then combine three spheres into the nose so that the wings and the septum are clearly visible.
We also need to be able to simplify the nose into planes.
We can basically think of it as a box with sides. The four major planes are the
front. the sides and the bottom. Forming a long wedge on the front of the nose.
It's important to think of the nose as planes, because it really helps us understand where the
light source will fall, and how perspective and proportion will affect the nose.
For exercise two, see if you can now draw
the planes and the basic shapes. See if you can combine both by
drawing various noses at various tilts. Also determine where the light is coming from,
and on which plane the high light will fall on, and which planes will fall in shadow.
Once you're confident with exercise 1 & 2,
I'd like you to challenge yourself and now really push the limit.
Start breaking the nose down into more complex planes.
You now want to pay attention to all the little nuances and shades, and different
variants of light and dark in the nose. You can only really do this when you pay
attention to all the smaller little planes and facets of the nose.
Imagine that you're constructing the nose out of a cardboard box, and what would that look like.
If this proved too difficult, go back to exercise two. and practice that again.
But really challenge yourself to understand the structure of the nose.
This is super important for when you guys start moving on to sculpture or painting.
Now go out and just draw lots and lots of noses.
It's important to have schemes and methods of how to approach certain things.
But nothing beats drawing from life and look in the mirror and
draw your own nose from various angles. If there are things you struggle with,
go back and focus just on that. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
Practice makes perfect. Also, please remember
to be kind to your inner artist. Their age is not your biological age.
It doesn't help that you beat yourself up, if you can't get things right.
Pause,
take a deep breath and go back to the simplest method you could get right.
That's it for this lesson. I hope you all know what you're doing now.
This is Lillian Gray. Remember to like and subscribe.