One of
the most challenging part of a figure drawing however is the face. You can
still get away with body not being perfect or looking a bit disproportionate but faces have expressions, they need to look balanced and human (and not aliens!)
Having said that faces too need not be very detailed, for
example you can get away with not drawing eyes or facial features all together
but do get the positions and poses of the face right. It should be in sync with
the body pose. You cannot have head looking backward when body is facing front
(unless you are working on Gothic collection!)
In order to achieve accurate and appropriate position of the head
and face the best technique that I followed when and I initially started
drawing fashion figures was by keeping a medium size ball with lines drawn as
half and quarter circle. Though human face isn’t perfectly round, it’s more
like an oval shape but that elongation could be added later on. Once you master
making these round shapes you could easily fill in the lower jaw part.
Here are some of the potential shapes that you can make. Try to figure out as many positions by turning the ball. |
Once you are confident making these round circles with the lines
starts adding the lower part of the face, which would be slightly longer, turning
this round shape into an oval one. Try to keep eye level line, nose line,
lip line and chine line parallel to each other.
Let’s try few poses -
Once you are happy with the shapes, one of the best way to
practice them and get a hang of them is by highlighting them with a black
marker pen and tracing these figures as many times as possible. Very soon you
will be drawing them without any difficulty.
Like any other art form these too require a lot of patience and
practice so do keep a note pad handy and soon you will get a hang of it.
All the best !
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