START PRACTISING DRAWING FACES BY JUST DRAWING EGGS
Drawing eggs, like in this page because let's face it, the human head is not a circle, not even an oval but slightly closer to a half-circle top with an egg bottom shape. (weird, right?) That’s us! We are learning an adult standard head canon (a canon is a technique ‘ or way of constructing a subject).
START WITH JUST GETTING EGGS SYMMETRICAL AND 1 TO 1.5 IN PROPORTIONS.
What you see below is what you will be doing once your eye/hand/brain have all practised together getting the basic egg shape drawn in different sizes but always 1 to 1.5 in proportions. This can take a while until you are confident, like most skills it requires a lot of repetition.
Here is a page of rectangles to print, roughly 1 to 1.5. Start by drawing your eggs inside the rectangles.
Then draw them repeatedly in different sizes, trying to auto-correct each one before starting a new one (check for symmetry and proportions). Use butchers paper as these are not going to be shaded or value modelled, they are just shape practice.
If drawing the eggs first off is too hard, start by drawing lots and lots of circles of all different sizes. Once you are getting them round and symmetrical every time, take the radius of the circle and add that amount to the bottom in a chin shape, more like a jaw.(then erase the bottom half of the circle ie. like that green line in the example on the left below). Use an h or hb pencil lightly so it is easy to erase the construction lines after.
After the egg shape is coming together each time. follow along like this below (don’t start trying to add features until you are drawing excellent eggs every time (it does take many, many hundreds for everybody to start drawing them easily each time.)
WHEN YOU ARE DRAWING NICE SYMMETRICAL EGGS EVERY TIME, THEN YOU ARE READY TO START PLACING SOME FEATURES, WHICH WILL BE SHOWN IN THE NEXT TUTORIAL AND ALSO DEMONSTRATED IN CLASSES.
