How to quickly draw a girl's face. Making eyes alive

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Good day, aspiring artists!
Now we will learn how to draw a person's face with a pencil step by step. People think that the image human face a task only for experienced artists. But if you follow simple rules, any beginner can cope with this task with the ease of a professional. Knowing the proportions and the correct arrangement of all elements are the keys to unraveling the secret of “how to draw a human face”.

Axial lines and proportions

Each element can be thought of as a line. They are called axial. A correct, proportional face cannot be depicted without their use. At first, until a certain skill appears, they need to be used constantly.
With light, barely visible strokes, to begin with, we apply a grid of axial ones. This will simplify and speed up the work on the contour.
Further, working with the axes, you can take on the image of human emotions. When a person is happy or angry, his facial features change, followed by a change in the direction of the axial grid.

horizontal lines

Step 1 Oval

To begin with, we create an approximate oval, we do not need accuracy yet. It will be corrected later. It is needed to understand the amount of work and create the correct proportions of all elements.

Step 2 Axial symmetry and eye placement

The oval must be divided by horizontal and vertical segments into four parts. The horizontal line is the axial line of the eye. Vertical is needed to correct the symmetry of the image. Do not try to do this without a ruler. Accuracy is important here, the correct location of parts of the face depends on them.

Step 3 Eyebrows, nose, lips and hair

We draw further our vectors for eyebrows, nose, hair. To do this, you need to divide the oval into three and a half parts, these will be the growth lines of the hair, eyebrows, the base of the nose.

To depict the line of the lips, we divide the lower third, from the nose to the chin, horizontally in half. There will be a lower lip.

It is important to remember that in the initial markup, only the main line of the lips is needed. Their shape depends on the sex, race and age of the person. It will change in future work.

Step 4 Ears

The auricle, like a fingerprint, is unique for each person. Oddly enough, the correct position of the ears is often the biggest problem when depicting a portrait.

In order to avoid such misunderstandings, you need to remember that the upper part of the ear is located on the axis of the eyes, and the lower part is on the axis of the nose. Regardless of size or shape, the ears are correctly depicted within this fragment.

vertical lines

Step 5 Eyes

We return to the horizontal of the eyes. It must be divided into eight parts. Each eye will occupy two parts out of eight. So they will look proportional. The distance between them is equal to the length of one eye. Before the outline of the head, on each side, one eighth should remain. The corners are always on the axial.

Do not forget that lips, eyes, nose, ears are different for each person. Here is how to draw the face of an average person. After proportional placement of parts, they can be brought into line with the original.

Step 6 Nose and mouth

If the model looks straight ahead, at the same vertical level are:

the inner corners of the eyes - the wings of the nose;

the corners of the lips are the pupil.

After carrying out all the axial, we should get the following grid:

We have drawn a skeleton base, which can later be formed, giving it individuality.

Step by step drawing of a human face.

The article tells how to draw a face quickly, symmetrically, and also accurately calculate proportions. As soon as novice artists feel the strength in themselves, you can begin to perform more complex artwork. With experience, the need to build a complex contour grid will go away.

First you need to determine the man or woman we will portray. They have significant differences. For example, we will draw a male face.

You can learn how to draw a girl's face from the video of the master class offered below.

Step 1 Shape

We draw an oval and the first two axial ones - horizontal (eyes), vertical (to determine symmetry).

Step 2 Details

With light movements, we apply, along pre-defined axes, eyes, nose, eyebrows, lips. At this stage, it is important to outline the details, we will correct them further.

The pencil should not be pressed hard into the paper. Otherwise, dents will remain on it, then it is difficult to correct flaws.

Step 3 Detailing the Forms

Now let's start converting the sketch into a drawing. We direct and supplement all the elements:

draw eyelids, pupil, eyelashes;

carefully draw the eyebrows, bringing out each hair. Highly painstaking work requiring attention and perseverance;

inventing the model's hairstyle. Correctly depicting hair is the most difficult task;

We pay a lot of attention to the nose. We carefully remove the nostrils;

for beginners, it is easier to make lips closed or in a half smile;

tighten the chin line.

Step 4 Add Shadows

The final touch - hatching! With small light strokes, we apply shadows in the area of the eyes, nose, mouth, cheekbones and neck.
Hatching can be shaded with a piece of paper or a finger. This will make the picture close to the original.

Lesson completed. Our model is designed for First level. But, showing diligence, the level of skill will increase with each new picture.

The next step is to learn the nuances of drawing facial expressions and depicting emotions. The main thing is to train!

(Portrait Art for Beginners)

Anyone can master the basic skills of drawing portraits. Teaching methods are designed for observation and the ability to build an image according to the rules, knowledge of anatomy and the theory of chiaroscuro is not required. How to learn to draw a person's face with a pencil? It takes patience and attention to detail.

Necessary materials

For creating pencil drawing required:

paper;
black-graphite pencils (sanguine or charcoal require skill to use) hardness HB ... 6H (up to 9V);
auxiliary tools - an eraser, a sharpening device or a cutter.

Basic principles of construction and layout

The human head is proportional and symmetrical (symmetry is not complete) with respect to a vertical line. With the help of markup, the position of the details is determined and a portrait similarity is obtained. The average face is built according to general scheme, the difference in racial and personal features of the structure of the skull makes adjustments.

An example of building a diagram using a base circle (the center of the circle coincides with the center point of the forehead).

Building a face in profile can also be started with basic circles; for the correct structure of the skull (without anomalies), the displacement of the centers is ¼ of the diameter.

Attention! The profile drawing shows about half the length of the eye, this should be taken into account when calculating.

Detailed drawing of the face

In order to learn how to draw a person's face with a pencil, the difference between a portrait of a certain person or a generalized image is taken into account. In the first case, the proportions are determined by the structural features of the face, including racial, special signs (asymmetry, scars, malocclusion or characteristic shape eyebrows). In the second, the desired type and the intended character of the character are invented.

An important stage of the drawing is the detailing of the eyes. The shape of the eye, the position of the corners (raised or lowered), the height and volume of the eyelid, the length of the eyelashes, the size of the iris and pupil are set.

The illustration shows a sequential drawing from schematic to detailed, with shadows and highlights on the pupil, hairs of eyebrows and eyelashes, with hatching shading.

The nose and mouth are drawn in the same way, taking into account the anatomical features.

For drawings “in front”, the auricles are built in a simplified way, for a portrait in profile - in more detail.

Shadows are drawn after the structure is built or in parallel, depending on the artist's skills and manner of drawing. To develop skills, training on realistic models under the guidance of a mentor is necessary.

Important! Shading shadows is done as needed, using a piece of paper or a finger.

The influence of anatomical and racial features on portrait drawing

Characteristic racial features - the width of the nose, the position and shape of the eyes, lips, forehead - are shown in the comparative drawing of the male face below.

For clear understanding reasons for the differences, it is desirable to study the anatomy of the human skull under the guidance of a teacher, since it is difficult to understand the nuances from hand-drawn images.

An important stage in understanding the structural features of the face is drawing a “chopped” head from a model. The lesson gives an understanding of the position of the main planes of the skull, taking into account the facial muscles.

When creating a head drawing, you can apply shadows to the entire image or work with individual areas in turn. To obtain a photorealistic image, the features of a particular image are taken into account, including the sharpness of shadows, the clarity of features, and contrast.

Step by step learning to draw, master classes

You can learn how to draw a person's face with a pencil on your own, but the process will go faster with personal training from a portrait master. Face-to-face classes:

speed up progress by fixing common mistakes and consultations;
improve drawing technique;
save time searching for information - it is presented in a convenient form for perception, concisely;
make it possible to use visual aids and sample drawings.

In our workshop, you can learn how to draw photorealistic portraits in a short time under the guidance of an experienced artist and teacher, master portrait drawing. comfortable environment, individual approach and the professionalism of teaching is the key to the rapid development of a new type of creativity.

The topic of this article is about how to draw a portrait with a pencil in stages for beginners. Each of us is looking for convenient way depict what he sees. That is why I want to offer an option on how to draw a portrait of a person, whether it is close or dear, or a person sitting in the train opposite, or it will be portraits of celebrities. In this option, there is only one rule - simplicity.

And today is a training lesson. We will draw a person’s face with a pencil in stages, a person you see every day, you are used to “working” a little on his appearance, trying on makeup or a smile, strictness or tenderness. We draw the face you know as your reflection in the mirror.

But first, let's get a mirror, and as for the first time, look at ourselves. All people are similar and at the same time different, and you are no exception. What makes us similar? Every healthy person has two eyes, a mouth, a nose, ears, eyebrows, hair styled in a hairstyle. And what makes us different? The shape, size and location of these "details" of human appearance. So, a portrait is a kind of collage or puzzles from several passages, which we will “break” into the plan of our work: Eyes; Mouth; Nose; Ears; Brows; Hair (hairstyle) and oval face.

And all this has its own shape, size and proportions of location on the face. This is what makes each of us "released in a single copy", and unlike anyone else. And if we learn to paint a portrait certain person, it would be good to first pay attention to the shape and type of each element of the face in detail. And only after that our final goal, and this is a portrait in colored pencils, will become more accessible.

Eyes

We will first practice depicting all the details pencil. And also, pay attention, I draw myself and my eyes. You can practice drawing while mine, but this will be an intermediate step on the way to learning how to learn how to draw portraits in pencil.

Step 1

Here we will draw an arc with a pencil. At the same time, pay attention to its shape. It is extended to the middle, and then “rolls” down.

Step 2

The bottom arc is almost perfect. It is smaller than the top.

Step 3

We connect the arcs and perform the upper eyelid.

Step 4

Cornea and lower eyelid.

Step 5

Eyelashes appear on the upper and lower eyelids and the pupil.

Step 6

We make small folds near the eyes and mark the places where the shadow falls, which makes the eye seem voluminous.