drawing faces

it has always been the easiest thing for me to draw, the face

same here. i draw faces obsessively when i'm depressed. sad ones! i start with the nose, incidentally.

I can't draw anything competently, but faces are the worst. I can make a "smiley face" and that's about it.

I would think the nose would be the hardest, though...

human faces are hard, cat and dog faces are easier

I didn't even know dogs had faces.

http://www.stickergiant.com/Merchant2/imgs/125/b5866_125.gif

Me neither, which is why I thought dogs were OK.

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My favorite thing to draw, and I love drawing just about anything.

I love drawing faces. But for some reason I find them easier to draw facing left than facing right. Is this because I'm right handed?

I start with overlapping ovals to establish the head. Then do the eyes. I love drawing eyes. I don't like drawing noses so much.

I doodle cartoon faces all the time. My desk pad has 14 on it at the moment. Cartoon noses are easy because they don't need to look like noses. I always start with the eyes, sometimes I just draw eyes then stop.

Someone spotted this at a meeting once and told me that compulsively drawing eyes was a signifier of mental problems that I may be borderline schizophrenic, which was a nice thing to say. I wear this tinfoil cap for purely aesthetic reasons!

I've been reading about this "drawing eyes = schizophrenic" thing and a few people mention drawing half faces as well. Should I be worried?

No. Only the voices in your head have cause for concern.

Don't start me on those fuckers.

I draw really detailed portraits of my professors when a lecture gets slow.

90% of the time when I can't think of something to draw, I just end up drawing a face. I start with the eyes, then basic face hape, hair & work way down. The hardest part is chins & lips, IMO.

I usually just give them a neck and shirt collar.

nose = the big problem for me, too.

How much iris to show realistically is difficult (from memory), also.

I always used to start with the eyes and work out but found it tricky to keep everything in proportion. Been having success recently using just a few simple construction lines - ball for the head, circumferences for eyebrow/nose line, plane for the chin. Somewhat like this:

http://www.learning-to-see.co.uk/images/head-loomis-ball.jpg

Have got an otherwise excellent book on portrait drawing which recommends starting with an outline of the entire head, which to me is o_O, I always thought that was a classic beginners mistake.

https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q72/s720x720/1536430_1412032459039109_178595684_n.jpg

:D

^my face rn

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