I need help drawing heads.?

Question

I need help drawing a head. I can't quite get it down. If you know anysites that would help.

Here is a picture of the person that I am trying to draw:

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p236/ashiebashy/Picture0302.jpg

And yes thats my boyfriend. I am drawing him for my first art project.

Answer 1

Try this :

Answer 2

Many people have trouble drawing faces and other body parts because they try to see the whole face while drawing it. This is great if you're doing interpretive art. But if you're trying to draw a photo-realistic face, they best approach you can take is to draw individual parts of the face, focusing particularly on lines, curves, shading and proportions.

Start by drawing a proportional outline of the face. You can use your pencil by measuring the width of the head in the photo, then holding the pencil closer to your face over your paper and visually transferring that measurement. (That's what artists are doing when you see them holding up their thumbs)

Next, try drawing other lines and contours, following them closely, and not just drawing what you think they look like but as exact as possible.

After you think you've got the basic shape of the face down, try a few more to get it better, or just improve on the one you've already done.

Finally, try doing some shading. The best way i've found to do shading is to press hard with a pencil, then use your finger and rub in one direction, in the direction towards the lighter part of the shade. You can also try cross hatching. For more information, check this website:

http://www.elfwood.com/farp/theart/jesspencil/jesspencil.html

Answer 3

Learning to draw the human face is quite a challenge,especially if you've never done it before and are still learning the basics of drawing. There are several good books out there just on portraits and beginning to draw techniques. Just to let you know, to start out, the face is an oval. You then divide it in half with a curve line and also down the middle with a curved line. Your eyes are half way down your face, while from the eyes to the chin, the nose is half way from there, and then from the nose to the chin the lips are about 1/2 way down.
Here are some websites that looked helpful:
http://paintingdrawing.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_draw_the_human_face
http://drawsketch.about.com/b/a/125738.htm

Good luck and don't get too frustrated. It takes time to learn how to draw the face. Always ask for help when you need it, teachers are great at that!

Answer 4

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 5

Hey, get the book, Drawing from the right side of the brain, by Dr. Betty Edwards. I'm sure you could find a used one in good condition on amazon.com for cheap. It's a great book, it will tell you everything you need to know!! Good luck!

Answer 6

PRACTICE AND MORE PRACTICE

That is a particular hard angle to draw. With his head tilted forward it will be difficult to get the true shape of his head. You night consider getting another picture and change the angle.

Have fun.

Answer 7

Turn the picture upside down and draw it that way. It keeps you from having pre-conceived notions of what you think it ought to look like and you can draw it as you see it. This lets you use the right side of the brain. Try it.

Answer 8

Ashie, take a photo of him to a copy shop, enlarge it to the size you want your art to be, then trace the outlines with tracing paper. Now, turn the tracing paper over and trace over the original lines with a "B" pencil. Put the dark side of the tracing paper down on the art paper, and trace it again.

Do this a few times, and you will get better at doing the portrait without the tracing paper each time.

Answer 9

consider proportions likes the size of the eyes compared to the nose. the distance from the lips to the chin. if you are going for photo realism. remember draw what you see, not what you think you see. it sound cliche but it really does matter for realism. focus on the gesture, pick out characteristics that define the pose, the tilt of the head, weight of the hair, overall contrast, where the highlights are, etc. good lucks! yay 2points!

Answer 10

the face has exact measurement . from hair growth line to to tip of the chin is 4 times the lenght of the nose, with the forehead,from the top of the brow to hairline, and the nose from brigde to tip being the same length. the mouth is also this length. the center of the eye is directly above the corners of the mouth and the distance from one inside point of the eye to the other is the same length as the eye itself.
now push this info to the back of your mind and only use them for referance points. forget that you are drawing a face and draw only the shapes that you can see.

Answer 11

drawing takes lots of pratice, you need to get everything to scale, then get the right shading. i find it easiest to start with the eyes and work my way out.