Drawing Faces Digitally!

Drawing the Face
Read this quick introduction about drawing the face first. It will provide you a good overview of how this site deals with handling this particular topic.

Draw Eyes
In order to draw eyes, we need to know the anatomy of it: concentrating on each small trait ranging from the pupils to the lashes.

How to Draw Eyes
As a follow up lesson to the eyes, here is where we begin to learn how to draw eyes digitally on your computer. Use multiple layers to help you out.

Drawing Noses
We will start off easy by using planes as a means for drawing noses. For the most part, this is a static feature that will not change much and will help to get into the groove of looking for shapes.

How to Draw Noses
Building on drawing the nose, you will learn how to draw noses with you digital art tools. The goal is to paint how the light will hit this feature. Try not to use the eraser tool at any given point.

Drawing Lips
Drawing lips requires you to be focused on the planes. Since it is a very dynamic facial feature, you want the planes to help guide you light and shading through many different movements.

How to Draw Lips
Light plays a huge part when you learn how to draw lips digitally. Since there are a lot of folds in the lips, it is important to use light as a means to highlight most of the folds.

How to Draw Ears
While simple at first, learning how to draw ears is a complex exercise in seeing how curved ripples of shapes will look like in different viewpoints.

Ear Drawing
Aside from its shape, an ear drawing requires highlighting curved areas that will stand out and how it will link with the rest of the face.

Hair Drawings
We will be learning simple hair drawings for techniques on drawing hair. Think about suggesting the shape rather than the individual strands first.

How to Draw Hair
The techniques for learning how to draw hair requires switching from suggesting spots of dark areas, where the strands will come out, to painting the thin strands of hair itself.

Draw Facial Expressions
The initial steps to draw facial expressions is to simplify it. Here is a brief introduction to possible facial expressions using simple caricatures for you to build on.

Sad Faces
As the title suggests, this is a small guide for drawing sad faces. Keep note of how each of the individual facial features are being stressed to give that look of grief.

Happy Faces
In drawing happy faces, only some of the facial features are stressed while other muscles are relaxed. Try to do many variations of this concept to give off different levels of happiness.

Scared Faces
Though similar to the surprised face, scared faces only differ around the mouth region. Keep this in mind so you don't get confused and draw the wrong expression by accident.

Surprised Faces
Once you have a good understanding of fear expressions, continue on with just manipulating the mouth region for drawing surprised faces. You should start seeing the differences immediately.

Angry Faces
Ready to give your character a look of rage and intensity? Do so by using these tips for drawing angry faces and give your characters this fundamental, and yet important, expression.

Disgusted Face
Drawing a disgusted face can be easy if you know how to draw angry and sad faces. Focus on the angry top half of the face while combining with the sad bottom part of the face to show some disgust.