I am already finding that I have already improved freehand through using this method. This method is like a halfway house between total frustration and eventually being able to get really comfortable with facial awareness. It’s just a tool to get the basic features right – head shape, eyes, nose mouth and distinguishing lines dimples etc. Copying is not something I like doing but in this case I don’t use a light box to copy verbatim. I can hear you groaning in the background but hear me out. I had a plan…well actually I had just acquired a light box – the answer to my nightmares. Saying “no can do” was getting me down so bit the bullet.
On saying that there are some excellent ‘How to draw Faces and Caricature books on the market the two I have in my reference library that really stand out are:
It’s all well and good reading the many ‘How to Draw Faces’ blog posts and books but it doesn’t work for me. I take my hat off to those lucky cartoonists that know exactly how to draw a face and can always seem to capture a character quickly and easily – it is a joy to watch when a caricaturist seemingly conjures a spitting image out of thin air with a couple of pencil strokes in two minutes.Ĭonstantly getting requests to draw cartoon characters of specific people was a problem and until recently I had declined simply because of the fear of not being able to come up with the goods and knowing that one face could take hours to get right. Want to know how to draw a face so that you don’t waste valuable time trying to get the likeness? It can be absolute hell trying to get the a person’s facial features in the right shape proportion.
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