Posted by How-To | Posted in Face Parts | Posted on 24-04-2010
The eyes are considered to be one of the most difficult to draw body part. One reason for that is that the eyes usally come in pares, so once you finaly manage to draw one single good looking eye, you know you’ll have to draw a second one just right beside it, and it will have to be not just a good drawing – but also similar to the first one. Yep, it’s not easy.
In the following few posts I’ll try to give some eye-drawing tips, which I hope will help you improve your eye drawing skills.
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Drawing a simple cartoon eye
1. Start with a simple round circle. The circle doesn’t have to be perfect, but the rounder – the better.
2. Eyelids – draw the upper and lower eyelids as simple curves on the top and the bottom of the first circle. Notice that in the below example I don’t draw them on the exact outline of the circle – their middle part is inside the circle, but close to the outline.
Posted by How-To | Posted in Face Parts, For Beginners | Posted on 20-10-2009
After learning the basics of cartoon face drawing, Let me show you a different style of cartoon face, which I find easier to draw – the ‘No chin allowed’ cartoon face. The outcome, of course, is completely different than the first ‘how to draw a cartoon face’ tutorial.
Our final image will be this lovely girl with huge hair, no chin:
The nose is the foundation!
The ‘No chin’ cartoons always start as a nose. According to the nose outcome, I decide which type of personality my ‘no chin’ cartoon will have: a fat nose usually turns out as an old man, a small and cute nose is a child or a delicate maiden, a strong pointy nose can be a teacher’s nose… the possibilities are endless!
So – start by drawing a nose. any nose. Than, add eyes. make sure to make them in the right perspective – if The head is turning to one side, the eye in that side will be just a bit smaller than the one in the other side. Now you can add the pupils and even eyebrows and you’re done with the first part:
Posted by How-To | Posted in Face Parts, For Beginners | Posted on 17-10-2009
When drawing a cartoon face there are no limits – you can draw it with enormous ears, huge eyes, baby size nose, and whatever weird characteristics you can imagine. It’s a cartoon, and it’s your cartoon – you can do it with absolute freedom.
However, in order for the common viewer to understand that your piece of art is actually a face, there are a few basics you should know before creating your cartoon head. The guidelines for each cartoonist can variate, but basically we all use similar basics.
In this part I’ll be showing you the step by ‘guidelines drawing method’, step by step. We’ll be using several sets of guidelines, so to make it easier each set of guidelines will get it’s own color.
The final cartoon face we’ll be drawing is this:
Let’s start – As the ordinary human face, the cartoon face is basically oval. Draw an oval shape. Now add 3 guidelines – one vertical in the middle of the head, and 2 horizontal which divides the oval shape into 3 horizontal parts, as follows:
