how do you avoid drawing big heads?

Question

I have a really bad habit of drawing big heads. it ends up looking like my character has a big forehead. I split the head with a horizontal line for the eyes and a vertical one for the nose, lips, etc But it still happens. Do you have some tips for me? I do draw from life!

Answer 1

you have to take into consideration that even though the eyes are supposedly in the middle of the head... there is still the hairline which goes down quite a bit from the top of the head. Many people who draw portraits make the hairline at the top of the head way to short thus making it look like all the subjects have huge foreheads. I actually cheat a bit and draw the eyes slightly above the middle line, plus most of the people in my family have longer faces and our eyes are NOT in the middle of our heads. Also try to take into consideration the ethnicity of your subject... many races have different shaped heads than what is stated in anatomy books which are very biased toward perfect looking white americans.

Plus, some people have close or far set eyes, which nixes the rule of one eye space between each.

Answer 2

Remember that the eyes are exactly in the middle of the head and between the two eyes there is exactly enough room for one more eye. Start with the nose, after you draw your guides. The end of the nostrils should be in line with the corner of the mouth. This is of course if you are drawing straight on.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

well its fact drawing from life is harder then drawing from a flat surface 2-D, it sounds to me like your in the basics. one thing you can do which will give you good pracitice and less hadache, is to draw portraits of portraits already drawn for right now, find a few well drawn portraits you like an copy them, it will give you good practice an you will learn where the eyes nose etc generally are in a portrait, once you start mastering the basics that way you can move on to real life people. also when you find portraits to copy make sure there graphite black an white not color to make it simple.

Answer 5

I say next time you draw out your lines to mark off your face, after you have drawn out the line, take some off the top and see what you come out with. But also another great trick is to add bangs or hair over the extra. Good luck and have fun.

Answer 6

i had problems with that myself but i gave myself some tips...

1. draw a stick person, lightly
2. create the body shape you want...running or standing, whichever...
3. make crosslines on the head and follow the oblong shape of the stick person
4. make the body which SHOULD be the same size...

if there's a problem in it, tell me okay?

just keep practising and you'll get it!

:) :) :) :) :)

Answer 7

mm draw the head first, so you can make the body as large as you need to. good luck!

Answer 8

draw people with smaller heads jeje j/k You should try to buy "HOW TO" books or I'm sure you can look it up on line.

Answer 9

draw a bigger body =) and ta-da the face is not so big anymore

Answer 10

you must have a big head.....ussally when people draw of the top of they mind.....the figure resembles them so in theory .............sorry im hella faded