How to Draw a Face for Beginners (7 EASY Hacks!)
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- How To Draw A Face For Beginners - in this video I have 8 simple hacks to help you draw faces and portraits plus one unique bonus tip! If you enjoyed this beginner's video you will love my starter guide to using watercolor pencils: Watercolor Pencils Tutorial (for Beginners!) • Watercolor Pencils Tut...
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0:00 How to Draw A Face for Beginners
03:17 How to find the angle of the head
06:34 Using the rule of halves to position the features
08:38 Finding the centre line of the face
11:36 Using curved guidelines to place the features on the face
16:31 Why noses and teeth shouldn’t have heavy outlines
20:13 How to draw a mouth from the centre line
22:59 How to draw the iris of the eye correctly
25:20 Bonus tip!
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This was great! Very informative, I've always used the loomis method for portraits, but there's so many lines, I can see similarities between them. The loomis method helps more for the planes of the face and light and shadow. Your method is much better for placement of the features. Thank you for sharing will definitely try this on my next portrait
I really like all 7 tips! Thank you so much! Maybe also an beginner tutorial about how to draw simple body's? I woud be verder happy :)
And; thank you for your great teaching skilss. The more slow tempo during the drawing makes it very concrete! I want to start trying imediatly :)
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Brilliant I love art but never had the chance to learn so I am hungry for all tutorials thank you
I found all the tips helpful but using the curved lines makes so much sense. I've tried drawing with the straight guidelines and my faces always looked flat or odd and now I know why! Is there a "rule of thumb" when it comes to ear placement? Thank you so much for your videos - I'm really enjoying them and learning a lot.
This is a godsend. This just opened a whole new world for me. Please, don't ever take this video down.
Don't worry, it's not going anywhere!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thank you so much 🥰❤️😁👍
Agreed 😊🎵
I drew her diagrams to keep it with me while drawing ❤
Very helpful!
I want to thank you for your videos. I am 68 years young and finally getting started on doing portraits again. The last time I did one I was in high school. Had a fantastic art teacher. Your videos help bring back my memory of all the guidelines I forgot. I look forward to watching more of your lessons. You are a good teach.
You are so welcome!
I wish I had a good art teacher! WOW she wasn't sadly very good at teaching you how to draw. She also wasn't a good artist? I'm still not sure why she was a teacher for art? I dunno but she was just not good at explaining. I remember drawing something I think it was a self portrait and she was all not all eyes are almond shaped like Jasmin efrom Aladdin" then she looked at me and said "Oh my bad!" LOL like? Seriously? Mine are actually almondy round shaped if that makes sense? LOL But ya she wasn't a good teacher!
She was supportive though so I will give her that. Again no idea why she was in the position for art!?
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Just started pencil drawing in my 70s never tried before , now every day is a school day , thanks to people like Michele.
That is awesome!
I learned more about perspective in this video than I ever learned in school art classes. Michele has a simple way of explaining everything, so the information isn't overwhelming and seems almost easy. Keep those videos coming - you are a wonderful teacher. I'll watch this one again to reinforce things I've learned. Next the building perspective video!
I'm going to rewatch this video also. I will be taking notes because it reinforces my retention.
Head angle, face centre line and curved guidelines are my favourites, but the whole lesson is valuable. Very easy to follow.
I love how, unlike most teachers, you give detailed explanations for every instruction.
As a mathematics student, I am incredibly pleased with your art teaching method.
You deliver the knowledge most interestingly and pleasingly. I've never felt bored or overloaded with information while watching your videos.
Take my compliment and thankfulness. Wish you the best.♥👍
Wow, thank you!
Great idea to trace faces on magazines. It is a very non threatening way and good practice.
It really is!
I can understand you. I need to know when lessons take place. I'm older and not used to computers. The simpler the better.
Totally agree! I grabbed a newspaper as soon as the video ended and even before I began drawing, the shape, angle and centre lines almost jumped out at me. Then drawing them trains the eye-hand connection.
The curved guidelines thing was really helpful. Also lol'd at the Hammer Horror/Clockwork Orange eyes.
Thank you so much this is the best tutorial on drawing faces I have seen. I will now look at faces so differently. Oh now I have the urge to hunt some old magazines from friends to practice doodling.
Wonderful!
Free catalogs from stores are good too. Some stores even have their catalogs online.
@@marcosreal11 Great Idea, i want to learn digital drawing. 👍
Now we need a tutorial on shading/painting a face !
Good idea! I am doing a face in Patreon, but she has white geisha make up. A drawing one perhaps... charcoal maybe!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber recently, a friend gave me a charcoal pencil set. I would love a video on how to use them.
Oh my , I wish you were my teacher 50 years ago as drawing was the only lesson I enjoyed all through school , I only ever wished to be able to draw portraits , you have just inspired me to pick the pencil back up the goal is to do my family portrait before the lord takes me
The curved guidelines is exactly what I’ve been missing in drawing faces! It made such perfect sense when when you said it but it had never occurred to me before. Thanks so much for taking the time to explain this. 😄
You're so welcome!
I think the bonus tip at the end wraps up the entire lesson so well. I feel challenged and inspired to head for my stack of mags right NOW!! Love all your lessons. They are so refreshing and original... no dry, rehashed stuff. You have really shortened my learning curve. Thank you!!
Thanks, Jeneal! Glad you enjoy them!
Absolutely brilliant I am learning so much. Thank you for your teaching I really appreciate it. You are very clear and to the point. You don’t waffle I switch off with wafflers 😀😀
I'm a beginner and was taking notes! Your "rule of halves" and no hard lines on teeth and noses are definitely written down! Thank you for your time and effort.
Glad it was helpful!
I had seen this video about a year ago and found it very helpful. Now that I’ve been trying to draw faces for awhile I have come back to it and realize how much I’d forgotten. No wonder I was having problems with some head positions. Thank you again Michele you’ve been such a great help.
Glad it was helpful!
This is exactly what I need. My NY resolution was to learn to do simple portraits and I had no idea where to start and I got muddled with the proportions of the face. Even I can remember how to do the curves now. It was really useful to learn that I can draw on newspapers and learn from that, rather than trace it onto the paper. I really liked learning about the lips, eyes and nose, these are so hard for me. I look forward to having a bit of a practice. It was really good to see the comparisons. I would iike to learn how to do simple watercolour portraits, men's hair and shoulders ie tops of men's shirts, men's shoulders, women's blousers. I would like to learn how to do the shapes and proportions of toddler's faces too, incomparison to adults. Off topic I would also like to draw people doing things in landscapes ie walking, walking the dog, holding hands and walking, running... to add some interested and movement to my landscapes
As an artist it is good to challenge yourself. The trickier the image that I am doing the happier I usually am with the result. I never got a good art lesson in highschool. They had an art teacher but I don't know why she wasn't very talented at drawing or teaching the information on how to do it. I feel bad saying that! So ya challenge yourself and really don't fear it.
I hate that a lot of artists are lazy and cowards when it comes to backgrounds. I've been drawing my whole life I am 40 now and I have tons of experinece even if there are some mistakes I make. But I learned that the fact is that if you opt to not draw something because it is hard to learn then you will never ever improve! The fact is if a background is hard for you eventually as you get more practice in then you will see it getting better! Same for hands etc! I've had a teacher at college that she doesn't draw hands because she sucks at them! Like? How can you learn?
That was a college that lasted 2 weeks for me they'd lied about it being animation classes it was graphic design which is not the same thing. That's like thinking I"m going to college to be a Dr and ending up in Nursing college! Like? NO! Seriously though they lied to me about the school. It wasn't a pleasant experinece! So my thought is this be willing to challenge yourself.
This is a revelation! What a clear and easy to follow tutorial. This is a keeper for sure. Thank you!
The best video on TH-cam on drawing faces!!! The others have you drawing cartoon characters. Thank you for taking the time to teach an actual art class for free!
You're very welcome! I'm too old to do Manga lol
After 35 years of working I have finally started drawing again. I found your video and it is the best on you tube do far. Thank You😃
Wonderful, good luck with your work!
This was good, I liked all of it and had never thought of the magazine tracing. Thanks. I’d also like a video on drawing people walking, sitting, etc.
Noted!
Your tip about magazines was so helpful, surprisingly much more so than I even imagined! I’ve struggled for so long to draw a portrait of my dog, yet after tracing a couple of similar breeds in a magazine I had, I managed to pull off the best sketch I’ve done so far! Just understanding the shapes and lines that make up a picture was really useful for me, so thanks for the advice! Much appreciated. 🙌🏼
I'm so glad!
I;ve taken a few drawing courses but you have taught me a way of making my portraits look human. Thank you so much.
Finally someone who explains the curved faceline! I saw that so many time explained in the wrong way. It hurts me as a teaching artist that so many "teacher" get away with rubbish just because they have the right amound of clicks and substriptions.
Thank you for your drawing tips. I will recomend your chanel to other students. If you get into the habbit of doing things the wrong way because you didnt know it is wrong you get easiely frustrated when you are a beginner. And to learn how to draw the human body is diifficuld enough. So thanks. xs
The good thing about TH-cam is anyone can make a video, and the bad thing about TH-cam is... anyone can make a video!
Yes more drawing tips please...maybe something on foreshortening. I like the way you keep it simple and easy to understand. I didn’t feel discouraged afterwards and I’m looking forward to trying the bonus tip. Great job Michele!
Noted!
I agree. I didn't realize foreshortening was an issue with such close proportions, but now it makes since.
The curved guide lines that delineate the roundness of the head as well as the way they slant have help so much in creating depth and demention in my drawings. Also the features must also show depth by their retreating size (ie:,the eye shape isnt a true almond shape and has more of a diamond or paralellagragm aspect.)
This was a really useful video. I recently attended an art class and, although I was taught the proportions, I was not taught about the curvature of the head and this makes so much difference. Thank you.
Thank you for the very clear instruction. I am a beginner and I have had problems with head angles and tend to want to draw people looking directly at the camera. Now I will be practicing drawing them looking at different angles. Because of your great examples, I think I now get it. Thanks again.
Wonderful!
Thank you! The best and clearest explanation of how - and the exercise of doing it on faces in newspapers and magazines is the why-didn't-I-think-of-that-before tip of the year!
You're very welcome!
Amazing lesson, really helpfull. It’s the first time I’ve had such clear explanations. Thanks ever so much!
Great to hear!
I’ve watched several of your videos. Your one of the best teachers I’ve had the pleasure to watch. Thank you
I get a lot from you teaching. I think you are humorous at times and lovely at all times.
Thank you!
Your explanations are so easy to follow. Thank you for making it a bit simpler for an older newbie :-)
You're very welcome, Cheryl!
You are a fabulous teacher! I have been teaching myself to draw and paint and just a couple of your videos have cleared up so many of my frustrations!
Wonderful! Thank you :-)
I 68 you have inspired me to start drawing again after 50 years thank you so much. Your methods of teaching is brilliant
Thank you so much 😀
I have taken many drawing classes, even at a prominent college of art, and not one instructor EXPLAINED, in detail, how to actually draw as you did. Thank you sooo much.
Not a problem, I teach the things that I would want to learn. I have been a victim of 'vague teaching' too!
What an eye opener! Loved this video. I’ll be drawing over every face, human or not, that I come across 😃
I loved learning the curved structure lines, I really needed that tip. Merci, Michele! 😊
So glad!
Great to hear a real artist that can actually explain in simple terms, to all those that are trying to be!
Oh, I love this practice method w using magazines … excellent.
This is great! Stumbled over your videos... I appreciate your detailed instruction. Never been good at drawing faces. This is a game changer.
Thank you for sharing your gift.❤
You're very welcome!
This was great! I had forgotten a lot of these guidelines 😎💕
Very useful tips! I've always shied away from portrait painting due to lack of knowledge regarding proportions. I LOVE the tip to doodle on photos of faces in newspapers!!
For me , the hack of the side of the face features being longer when they face to the left or right was huge.
I would love more pencil drawing hacks
Very, very good tips and a surprising reference - A Clockwork Orange! Yes, that is the eye!!
Thank you so much for your tutorials, this one I'm sure will spur me on to better results. Great idea to use magazines or newspapers for better practice!
Have fun!
Thanks for sharing! I'm a 40yr old just tapping into my creative side and getting into art, drawing, mixed media and WATER COLORS! I'm so glad I found your channel! Will you be showing us how to shade in those faces properly? I'd love to see that!
A lot of people have asked this so eventually, yes I will!
I cannot thank you enough for this tutorial. I have a very hard time with portraits and facial features especially. I will definitely be practicing on my skills using a magazine or newspapers. Wonderful idea! Any other beginner tips/tricks that you have would always be appreciated!!!
You're very welcome! I will be doing some landscape drawing and perspective videos soon!
Thank you, Michele Webber, what a helpful video this is. I love all the hacks, a couple of which I had not seen before. I would adore a video on how to watercolour faces, please!
Noted Bessie, thanks for watching!
Fantastic Michele. I’m trying to get the nerve to do a self portrait and this has really encouraged me. You always say that you can’t get a good painting from a bad drawing. I need to learn to draw. Thanks again
You can do it!
Thank you. Big help today. I struggle with placement of nose and how much to draw/shade.
As usual, I have learned enough to attempt to draw my granddaughter’s favourite basketball player. Don’t have a lot of confidence in my drawing abilities but she seems to think that, for her, I will learn. Thanks, Michele
That is awesome!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge so generously. 😊
Extremely helpful video and to the point with humor. Wonderful.❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have learned so much from your video. With your clear ......makes all the sense in the world .....and with a hint of humor....your explanations and demonstrations were spot on. I am on the verge of doing portraits in watercolors. I’m hoping you get into shadowing, glazing, painting loose secrets to share.
I am sure I will!
Doodeling on magazine faces is a great idea! Thank you for this lesson and the hot tip!
This has been so informative and easy to understand. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
This tutorial is amazing! I have been trying to draw faces for a while without all that much success. What helped me most was finding the center line and the lines where the eyes, nose and mouth go. Thank you so much!
Thank you Michelle. I enjoyed the video. Curved lines, center mouth, angles, doddle on magazines different face angles. The whole lot really.
Wonderful!
Such an important lesson! I'm not new at this , but ever learning . Drawing on the curve , is not a common teaching .
Useful - all of them. Explains a lot of what’s going wrong and sets up my weekend practice program!
Excellent, good luck!
Thank you so much! I have started to draw more than watercolor in the second half of last year and this year I feel more attracted to learn to draw people so I naturally jumped on your video. Very useful tips, especially the one about the curved guidelines. I wish you showed more examples of drawing over faces. I do that to sometimes, but I should really don't more.
I am surprised how much people liked that bit, I may do more in another video!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Yes. That would be great. I still didn-t understand how you did the curved line at the mouth. I do understand a bit about perspective in an ovoid shape, but still have a lot to learn when it comes to drawing faces.
Michele, you are so right, I have been instructed to do eyes on a straight plane when drawing a person is looking at you. I have had so much problems with up & down head looking portraits because this was never explained. This makes so much sense. Thank you so much. I has subscribed because of your explanations.
Thanks so much Anna!
i found how you explain the drawing of lines for eyes, nose , and mouth easy to understand. and-- your describing starting from center of the mouth and then drawing upper lip and lower lip especially helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
All of your tips are excellent for achieving a realistic image of a face. Especially the eyes and mouth. Thank you!
Great lesson. Love your teaching style and the gradual stepping up of the process. Thanks
THANK YOU! I have watched, read books and the way you explained drawing the face is much more understandable!
I'm so glad!
I just love your videos Michele! Thank you!
Really helpful. I've known the basics for decades. But now I know how the proportion changes with the angle of the face. Thank you so much!
They are all helpful, but I especially like the last one of using magazines to practice seeing head shapes. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Brilliant video. Thank you
This video is so useful for me. (I even drew the leaf from inside as I didn’t know that before either.) Thanks so much
Very helpful. Thanks❣️
Having the guidelines curved is great! I’ve never had anyone tell me that. It makes so much sense, but I didn’t think if it.
No problem!
Thank you!
I like the tip about drawing on the faces in the magazines
this was wonderful! I'm a newbie at figurative art, and this was SO helpful
I love the idea of drawing on photos, it really helped me see the placement of features, thanks Michelle.
I'm so glad!
The last tip is my favorite! It puts it all together.
Great. Tutorial thanks!
Excellent. Michele thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for all the great tips that you explain so well. I particularly liked the explanation about the curve of the eyes and that even though we do line them up straight across the face it's important to curve that line depending on the angle of the face as a whole.
I am in the process of doing a self-portrait & your instructions are very much needed. Had classes some years ago but didn't follow up with portraits. Thanks for your instructions.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks! Love your teaching techniques!
Thanks so much I really appreciate it!
I used to be baffled on how to draw face direction. You made it so simple to understand. Thank you
Thank you for these great hacks! They're all very helpful as I'm just starting to try painting portraits. I especially like the use of drawing the facial outlines like eggs facing different directions, along with using lines to demarcated the features. Thanks again!
Very helpful. Being mostly a landscape artist I don’t do much portrait work. Until now. You raise the bar for me daily.
Great to hear!
Fantastic information, thank you for sharing your experience.
I’m drawing with grids …I like grids … to replicate an image. And I love all these tips and tricks. Great.
Thank you so much, everything I have been doing in the past is wrong,I've watched a number of your videos and I have learned a lot. Thank you so much ; and also, thank you for being very easy on the eye yourself.
great tips Michele thank you🙏
Thanks for watching!
I am really learning so much .Now 78 years coming back to watercolour and drawing.
That's great!
Thank you. Nice and simple insructions
As mentioned in numerous previous comments, tracing the head shape in magazines, periodicals, etc. is excellent advice! I never thought of doing that! Thank you and please continue giving us these great videos!🤘🤪🤘
Will do, was amazed how popular this was!
Very valuable data. The angle of the head, the center of the face, and the curved guidelines are the basics for faces, even for cartoons and animation. I'll be practicing those a lot. I just started drawing individual features and this will really help when I put them together. (I haven't even finished this tutorial, but I'm already more confident.) Your videos are always helpful. Thank you very much.
Thanks very much. Very helpful tips.
You're welcome, Dougie!
Love your videos! Thank you
Very useful. Thanks.
Thanks, very usefull tips all of them 🙏🏽🙂
Thank you, Michelle, for these drawing hacks! I especially like the one about curves that eyes, nose and mouth are positioned on! The face looks mire natural and leess flat.
Glad you like them!
Thank you so much....really helpful!