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| HOW TO DRAW FACES
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In this tutorial, we'll learn how to draw faces. It's not as
hard as you"d think it would be, if you just learn to break what
you are drawing into different parts. If you are trying to draw
something as a complete whole, well you might have some trouble
unless you're pretty experienced. If you draw one thing at a
time (eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair) you'll do it faster and
easier than normally. Take time to learn how to draw each
feature of the face, and then go back later and put them all
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First things first, the eye. The eye is the most important
feature of the face. Why? Well, look at somebody and tell
me what's the first thing you look at on their face. You
always stare into a person's eyes. Eyes can show tons of
emotion, so it's important that you know how they work.
The image to the right was done by the famous artist named
M.C. Escher. I just put it up here for you to get a better
reference of an eye.
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Ok, of course you already know that an eye is a sphere,
it's completely round like a ball, with the optic nerves
stemming out from behind and connecting to your brain. The
top eye there shows the entire eyeball behind the eyelids.
You didn't realize it was that big huh? The bottom eye
shows just what you see when you look at a person. The
eyeball pushes the lids of the eye out a bit, and that"s
what you need to learn to draw. Over and beneath the eyes,
there will the a buldge, remember to draw that.
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Here is a sideview of what's going on. The eye reaches
back pretty far in there don't it? I know the picture is a
little weird looking, that"s my fault, I drew it a little
off hehe.
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Here's some angry eyes. Notice that, when you scowl like
this, your eyebrows come down near the front and go up in
the back. this causes the skin near your nose to bunch up,
which partly covers your eyes. Not only that, but your
cheeks come up a little, and make your eyes squit too.
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Here's some closed eyes, like the person is in pain. Just
do what you did for the angry eyes, only make them totally
closed and add more wrinkles. Use this picture for
reference. In a chatroom you might use a symbol like this
>_< to make a squinting
face.
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I drew these kinda dumb but you get the idea. If you're
suprised, your eyes open wide and your eyebrows go way up.
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When drawing females, the eyes need eyelashes. You can try
drawing eyelashes on male figures if you want, but I
promise you it'll make him look like a woman. Anyhow, you
thicken the eyelashes up towards the outer corner of the
eye, and more on the top eyelid than the bottom. It"s
pretty simple.
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Ah, and finally we have crying eyes. The eyebrows lower on
the ends and raise up near the nose. The tears actually
flood into the eyes and cover up near half of the pupil,
which makes the eye look wavy and especialy shiny. Make
sure to add extra lighting effects in the iris. You can do
the tears however you like, but if you want to be more
realistic, make sure not to draw the trail, only draw the
tear itself and try shading in the stream that the tear
left.
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Remember, if you're having trouble with eyes, you
should practice drawing ONLY the eyes and not anything
else. The more you draw the eyes, the more you'll
start focusing on the parts you were getting wrong and
you"ll improve your drawings a whole lot.
Now click next to see how to draw noses, ears, and
lips.
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