HOW TO PRACTISE DRAWING FACES
Summary
TLDRThis video offers a comprehensive guide on mastering the art of drawing faces. It introduces a 20-week plan, starting with foundational exercises like drawing boxes and cylinders to understand head structure and proportions. The plan progresses to studying facial features, bone structure, and integrating them into complex geometric forms. The video emphasizes the importance of avoiding 'lazy hair' and mastering the three-dimensional aspect of hair. It concludes with tips on developing a personal style by practicing different mediums, proportions, and storytelling through drawings.
Takeaways
- 🎨 Start with a 20-day drawing plan to improve face drawing skills.
- 📚 Begin with the 100 head challenge to understand basic shapes and proportions.
- 📐 Practice drawing boxes and cylinders to grasp the structure of the head and face.
- 🔍 Focus on subdividing planes to understand how features fit within the head's mass.
- 📈 Transition from basic to complex geometric forms to represent facial features more accurately.
- 💀 Study facial anatomy and proportions by drawing skulls to understand underlying structures.
- 👁️ Pay attention to facial landmarks to capture realistic facial features.
- 🖌️ Avoid 'lazy hair' by treating hair as a three-dimensional form with volume and gravity.
- 🎨 Experiment with different hairstyles and mediums to add variety and interest to your drawings.
- 📺 Watch animations and study how artists use form, proportion, and line work to convey emotions.
- 🌟 Challenge yourself by drawing from life, imagination, and different perspectives to grow as an artist.
Q & A
What is the main focus of the video?
-The main focus of the video is to provide a structured approach to practicing and improving face drawing skills.
What is the 100 head challenge mentioned in the video?
-The 100 head challenge is a drawing exercise where the artist attempts to draw 10 hats every day for a period of time, aiming to improve their drawing skills.
Why did the artist move away from the 100 head challenge method?
-The artist found the 100 head challenge to be less efficient and learned that there are more sophisticated approaches to learning and practicing face drawing.
What is the recommended daily practice duration for the artist?
-The artist recommends a general outline of 3 hours a day for practice, but acknowledges that this can vary based on individual needs.
What is the significance of drawing boxes and cylinders for beginners in the first week of practice?
-Drawing boxes and cylinders helps beginners understand basic forms, the structure of the head, and basic proportions, which are essential for face drawing.
How does the artist suggest practicing facial features in the third and fourth weeks?
-The artist suggests evolving from basic geometry to more complex geometric forms, adding features like ears, and understanding how these features fit within the mass of the head.
What is the purpose of studying facial anatomy and proportions in weeks 5 to 8?
-Studying facial anatomy and proportions helps artists become more specific with their drawings, understanding the underlying base geometric forms of facial features.
How does the artist approach drawing hair?
-The artist emphasizes not drawing 'lazy hair' and instead treating hair as a three-dimensional form, considering its volume and the effect of gravity on it.
What is the importance of challenging oneself in the practice of drawing?
-Challenging oneself helps in personal growth and allows the artist to explore different styles, mediums, and subjects, ultimately leading to a more versatile and skilled artist.
How does the artist suggest integrating full face drawing into practice?
-The artist suggests starting with basic geometry, moving to complex geometry, mastering bone structure and features, and then applying these skills to draw faces with various hairstyles and expressions.
Outlines
🎨 Introduction to Face Drawing Practice
The video begins with an introduction to practicing drawing faces, mentioning a 20-day drawing plan designed for learning facial features. The speaker shares their personal sketchbook from 2019, highlighting the 100 Head Challenge they undertook, which involved drawing 10 hats daily. They acknowledge that while this method provided learning opportunities, it wasn't the most efficient. The speaker now proposes a more sophisticated approach, starting with the first week focused on building a foundation by drawing basic forms like boxes and cylinders to understand the structure of the head and basic proportions.
📐 Geometric Shapes and Proportions
The second paragraph delves into the importance of drawing geometric shapes to understand the structure of the head. The speaker suggests practicing with basic forms like boxes and cylinders to grasp the concept of how planes change in the face. They emphasize the need to understand the proportions and the placement of facial features within the mass of the head. The speaker also introduces the idea of drawing the head from different perspectives and encourages viewers to fill a page with these basic forms as a warm-up exercise.
💀 Advanced Geometry and Facial Anatomy
In the third paragraph, the focus shifts to more advanced geometric forms and facial anatomy. The speaker explains the transition from basic geometry to more complex forms, such as adding ears and understanding where the neck connects to the head. They discuss the importance of studying the underlying geometric forms of facial features and the need to understand the bone structure of the face. The speaker also mentions drawing skulls to grasp these basic structures and suggests a more imaginative approach to make the practice more enjoyable.
🌟 Hair as Form and Full Face Integration
The fourth paragraph addresses the common mistake of drawing 'lazy hair,' emphasizing that hair is a three-dimensional form. The speaker provides tips on how to draw hair with volume and gravity in mind. They also discuss the importance of integrating all learned elements—basic geometry, complex geometry, facial features, and hair—to draw a full face. The speaker encourages viewers to practice drawing different hairstyles and to challenge themselves by drawing faces from life or imagination.
🌐 Conclusion and Encouragement
The video concludes with the speaker encouraging viewers to like and subscribe for more helpful content. They mention the availability of mentorship slots and invite viewers to share their practice results with the world. The speaker emphasizes the adaptability of the suggested practice methods and encourages viewers to find their own style and challenge themselves in their artistic journey.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Drawing Faces
💡100 Head Challenge
💡Geometric Forms
💡Facial Anatomy
💡Proportions
💡Landmarks
💡Hair
💡Style
💡Animation
💡Practice
Highlights
The video discusses a method for practicing drawing faces, including a 20-day drawing plan.
The speaker shares their experience with the 100 head challenge, which involved drawing 10 hats every day.
The 100 head challenge was a learning experience, but the speaker now uses a more sophisticated approach.
The first week of practice focuses on building a foundation by drawing basic forms like boxes and cylinders.
The speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding how planes change in the face for accurate proportions.
The second and third week involve transitioning from basic geometry to more complex forms.
Weeks 5 to 8 focus on studying facial anatomy and proportions, including drawing ears, eyes, and noses within geometric forms.
The speaker suggests practicing by drawing skulls to understand basic structures and landmarks.
The importance of not drawing 'lazy hair' is stressed, as hair is a three-dimensional form with volume and gravity.
The speaker recommends practicing different hairstyles and applying them to geometric faces.
The goal is to be able to draw faces without thinking, integrating all learned elements seamlessly.
The speaker encourages viewers to challenge themselves and practice drawing in different styles or mediums.
The video concludes with an invitation to share results and feedback, promoting a community of learning and growth.
Transcripts
in this video we're going to talk about
how to practice drawing faces and I will
also share a 20we drawing plan
especially for learning to draw the face
so please enjoy the video this is one of
my sketchbooks from 2019 and this was
the way I was practice drawing faes back
then so this is maybe familiar to some
of you which is the 100 head challenge I
also made a video about that few years
ago you can find it on my YouTube
channel I will also plug it here there
but basically that was a drawing
challenge where you would try to draw 10
hats every day and through this
challenge I really learned a lot I would
say it wasn't the most efficient method
to learn or technically I would say I
would definitely learn to draw the face
differently today but you can see there
was a lot of learning a lot of mileage a
lot of things I could learn about shapes
and whatnot and DEP and shading so that
was an interesting challenge I
personally would not practice drawing
faces this way anymore I want to give
you today a more sophisticated approach
to learn and practice drawing faces as
mentioned I will also provide you with a
20we drawing plan so we want to talk
about how to practice drawing faces
today starting off with week number one
which is basically building a foundation
I want to say that the general outline
for every practice um because I found it
most efficient for myself is 3 hours a
day that could be vary a bit for you it
could be more or could be less
everything that I'm going to suggest is
just optional it's always open for you
to adjust to your own personal needs I
wanted to add first week of drawing
basic forms suggest for every beginner
is learning super basic things I know
some people may be tired of this but I
cannot emphasize this enough drawing
boxes and cylinders is the absolute key
for it the things that we need so we're
going to need
a concept
of a
box and we need the concept of a
cylinder right so we want to combine
these two how do we do that and I would
suggest maybe starting with the box I
want you to
imagine that around this face around
this head there's something like a
invisible box which is the outside
constraint for the general mass of the
face or the head that could look like
this
and now we also need the cylinder but
the neck of course
so like this why do we need that because
we need to get an understanding how
plain changes work in the face and how
the general mass and proportion work so
if I would divide this
because that's what we can do with
planes we can divide them so if you ever
have used a 3D program you can use
something that's called subdivision
where you can subdivis these planes and
we can technically subdivide them again
and again and again and again very small
that's not what we want to do what we
want to do is we want to get a general
feeling for the proportions we can also
try to draw this box more from
below make it a bit harder on our
self but we always want to try to
Envision a
head and again we are just subdividing
it to make it easier to
understand why is the subdivision so
important because when we're going to
place the face and the features in a
later stage we need to exactly know
where we have certain separation because
we can separate these features so your
first week would technically look like
filling a full page just
with
boxes and
cylinders also great warmup can always
recommend
that you can loosen up if you feel like
that that's is still hard for you also
the cylinder sometimes off or the
ellipse is off you can also draw through
if you
want so for
example like this like we could look
inside of the
box right so to make it super straight
that would be like we could look through
the box right so this would be the first
basic approach and you can just fill a
page like this now here's another
example
we can basically just fill a page like
we want to week number one consists
basically out of spending time drawing
practice geometric shapes understand the
structure of the head and study the
basic proportions of the shape after
that we going over to week number three
to four which is three-dimensional forms
what we want to do we eventually want to
get a little bit more further with this
right so we kind of like want to evolve
from the base that's the absolute basic
geometry basic GE
now we want to evolve right because and
know we cannot draw this no one's going
to see that that's a face you're
absolutely right so what's the next step
just draw a box
again now we have few options we could
say we could try to either cut into this
box add to this box or make a more
complex geometric form
e
and we try to go for more of a complex
geometric
form
now we can also start to think
about maybe adding an ear but just
adding the form of the
ear then where would the neck connect to
the Head we just draw over this again
now here we try to draw something a bit
more
complex so more geometrical but what we
want to do and what we eventually want
to achieve is to place these elements
the eyes the nose the mouth and the ears
in a proper way inside the mass right
not inside the Box because that will
kind of like always be limiting but what
we want to do we want to fit these
features there talking about facial
anatomy and that's the subject for the
next weeks which is basically week 5 to
8 is anatomy and proportions so what we
want to do we want to study the
underlying base geometric forms of the
features we need in order to be more
specific with it we can basically draw
the geometric basic shape of an ear and
then try to draw a real ear inside of
that same goes for the eyes and same
goes also for the nose right so we have
to understand this another practice
option would be for you to just fill a
page with these basic geometric forms
and that's super super simple right you
can choose whatever you want whatever it
is that you want to prefer So when you
say I want to practice maybe to draw a
nose and you start just with the basic
geometric forms or you
say I want to practice the basic shape
of an
ear but not to forget that everything
that we draw has planes right right so
everything has side planes top planes
and maybe bottom planes depending on
what is the perspective we have so same
goes for the
eye obviously that's a bit
easier see the pupils right in the
middle right but this is a way where you
can basically just say okay I'm just
going to fill one page only with these
and when you've done that the next step
could be okay now let's try to draw the
these things
inside very common mistake I see that
for example people completely forget
about this upper plane of the ear you
see that everywhere people just do these
very flat ears but they completely
forget about the top plane or the bottom
plane depending on where they at same
for if you learn to draw noses like a
someone who likes anime what they often
do is they in manga they do these
simplifications right these super
indications this is great this is super
artistic but in order to learn it's hard
because what you first have to learn is
this the plane change because this
means always
three-dimensionality right 1 2 3 3D if
effect that's what we always want we
never want only one plane we don't want
this right we want this so fill a page
with these boxes or with these more
complex geometric forms for the
features and try to draw that
in depending on what it is that you try
to draw
right
and challenge yourself if you feel okay
I got this this is easy now do more do
different different views so the next
step then is basically combining that
which means what we want to do and
that's what we already did here is we
want to add these features to the more
complex geometry now when we've done
that we have now more options we can
start to say well let's try to draw a
phase above this or let's take another
step into a proper direction which would
be to not only study facial features but
also bone structure and I made a Draw
With Me video to the topic of drawing
bones and drawing the skull I will also
put it in here but the next few weeks
which could be one or two weeks would be
just by drawing sculls and just trying
to understand these basic structures and
I also want to show you how that could
look you can also go for a more
classical approach by just drawing them
but what I also sometimes like is more
having more fun with these things right
so I at some point I start to just
rotate sculls from my imagination um
just as a warm-up but this is how I try
to approach it in a more fun way where
you don't be like okay I have to draw a
full page of skulls that's something you
can do once or twice if you enjoy it
please do more of it
but if you feel like okay I don't like
the typical academical approach or more
something more free you can do fun stuff
you can draw a full page which tells the
story of imagination so I think I also
shared this in another video already but
uh this is also just a bit further which
means now I draw the full bone structure
and I imagine scenes in my head and I
just do that as my practice that's
basically part of my practice routine by
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now what could be the next step so let's
say you have now the capability and
possibility to draw a skull in every
angle why do we need that because what
we want to do we want to understand
these landmarks this and
this these things are called landmarks
what they basically mean they indicate
bumps in the face so when we see a face
from the side and we see okay there's a
certain bump coming out on the side what
is it made of because it will help us to
communicate a better realistic face so
now we got the basic understanding of
basic Geo we mastered the complex Geo
plus the features now what we want to do
we want to draw the face over the
geometric form finally right because
that's what you're here for what we can
do is we can go back to make a
combination of the basic Geo and start
to draw features over it what you maybe
will realize when you start with this
approach is that either way you draw the
features too big or too small and there
are very small nuances in adding these
features why because it's extremely
important how big and small they are
every person you meet every face you see
has different proportions but also
depending where is your cultural
background where's someone coming from
these features going to very extreme and
this is why drawing a lot of different
faces is always a good practice and at
some point we think about indication
which means we don't want to draw the
full form we also want to kind of like
find a efficient artistic approach to
draw these faces because what most of us
want to do is find their own style right
but the style contains out of the
knowledge we have and also the artistic
decisions we make so some things are
bound to efficiency some things are
bound to the preference in what shapes
do we like what ratios do we prefer prer
if do we draw a female do do we draw a
male these are all things that influence
our drawings but what we want to do
eventually is we want to be able to do
this to draw faces without really
thinking now we also have to talk about
this which is hair something I see very
often my mentorship students are doing
is something which I call Lazy hair and
by lazy hair I mean they basically just
draw a really nice geometric head and
they then just do a very quick scribble
on top the thing is hair is also form
right hair is not flat it is a
three-dimensional
form super long slim tube the mass of
the hair consists out of a lot of
these super small tubes right so bunch
of them together makes a big string of
hair I really get annoyed by seeing this
because hair is super super easy it's
much easier than this because it's
basically a bunch of tubes all we need
to do is we have to apply gravitation
and we have to apply volume volume just
comes by adding these little tubes
together right so that makes the volume
and gravitation means it gets pulled
down and if it's above a geometric form
it wraps around that form whenever you
draw hair I want to I want you to keep
in mind to not draw lazy hair and
whenever you see someone making a
YouTube video and drawing hair like this
I want you to comment lazy hair below
and tag them with this video a practice
week how could it look basically trying
to draw these geometric faces and then
also try to add different hairstyles on
top so something like this right so you
can start simple you can warm up with a
geometric form sometimes you can also
test different different mediums here I
tested the brush pen it was super shaky
so I just went in and went over the
geometric forms again also draw the head
a bit from below also sometimes see okay
this is too small this is is too big but
that's how you can approach this
practice so what you would do you
basically fill a full page with these
type of faces and then you can also
start to have more fun by drawing
different hairstyles right and trying to
think of how can I make this more
exciting how can I make
this head more interesting how can I
give her more shapes how can I make him
more interesting maybe he has a bit more
beard maybe he has strong eyebrows maybe
he has a stronger beard shape here in
the front right so this is how a full
page of applying this could look so an
an absolute option here is also to for
example give yourself a week of just
drawing basic hairstyles right so
studying different hairstyles practicing
drawing them and focusing on the flow
and movement of the hair and last but
not least is then of course the full
face integration right or something that
we already talked about for me right now
it is for example learning not only
brush pen or a different medium but also
also learning different indications
because when you're able to figure out
the general mass of the head and the
general forms and you figure out okay I
know this now I know how to draw all
these features you can start to
experiment with it and sometimes what I
would do I would kind of like draw the
same thing over and over and over and
over again this is also optional for you
if you are into animation manga or
anything that kind of like goes in that
direction that could be also a week for
you by just doing these pages every day
where you watch your favorite animation
movie or you watch your favorite
animation series and what you do you
look for indication form proportion how
these artists would use their Mark
making to communicate certain emotions
so I just wanted to show you this
because I know a lot of you are also
interested in this type of Direction I
also personally do that I have a lot of
animation movies I love and when I feel
like okay there's something that sticks
with me I take a sheet of paper and I do
these practice Pages where I just try to
understand what is it that I like is it
the proportion is it the shape is it the
mouth right this is basically a warm-up
not focus anymore on just the face but
also focus on full full body but also I
want to tell stories because it's it's
not only drawing only the face is not
that exciting anymore I want to
challenge myself and this is something I
would always advise to anyone it's
always how you react to your
surroundings how you react to your own
personal growth and in order to make
sure that you grow more you have to
challenge yourself so um I just do this
as a warm-up I think about things what
I've seen what do I like and I just let
this come out and this is just by
imagination it's just a random drawing
we start with basic Geo we go to more
complex Geo we want to learn bone
structure when we have the bone
structure and the Geo done we want to
apply features on that we want to not do
lazy hair we want to master the features
and then what we want to do we want want
to be free so we can practice whatever
we want if it's
animation if it's drawing random faces
if it's practicing a medium over and
over if we want to draw stories that's
all up to us so if this video was
helpful for you please make sure to like
And subscribe I also have some
mentorship slots open there's a link
below the video these are all
suggestions it doesn't mean that has to
100% work for you everything is
adaptable and optional give me feedback
in the comments otherwise I wish they a
lot of fun with this practicing and
please make sure to share your results
with the world because everything that
you produce will also motivate someone
else to pursue drawing
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