Cartoon faces of girls. How to draw a girl's face with a pencil step by step

Probably, there are no people in the world who at least once in their life did not pick up a brush or a pencil.

The activity is exciting and interesting, but not easy. And to depict a person on canvas is perhaps one of the most difficult tasks.

Types of portraits

To better understand how to draw a portrait, you first need to understand the classification - what are they?

By genre	By composition	Format
Historical	portrait-painting	Full length
Psychological	Portrait walk	Generational
Costume	parade	By the hips
Mythological	semi-front	Waist-high
Family	Group	Chest
Portrait of a man, woman, children	Doubles	Shoulders
self-portrait	Individual	In a quarter turn
Estate-social	Chamber	Full face
cartoon, caricature, miniature		in profile
By photo		half turn
		At three quarters

Historical - the picture depicts a person known in history. Often such images were made according to the surviving descriptions of contemporaries.

Costumed - a person appears in some way. This can be either an outfit of a fictional character - a hero of myths, films, comics, books - or an image of a real person, usually known. In the old days, it was precisely such portraits of the nobility and rulers that were made ceremonial - that is, in full growth, against a bright background, with all the paraphernalia.

But the costume can be more modest, it just reflects the occupation - this is a military, class-social portrait - when trying on the costume of a peasant, merchant, etc. This view was usually semi-ceremonial - that is, with a more modest background and not in full height.

Mythological - they write a fabulous creature from a living person.

Costumed, psychological and historical portraits often take the form of a walking or painting portrait, where the characters are presented in certain atmospheres and environments.

Psychological - the main goal of the artist is to convey on the canvas the inner world, the experiences of the hero.

Group, pair - a group of persons is depicted, in some way connected with each other - for example, a family portrait.

Individual - the whole composition is dedicated to one person.

Self-portrait - the artist paints his face.

Caricature, caricature, miniature - simple drawings, usually made in pencil, ink or watercolor. Such sketches resemble sketches, since the draftsman draws out only the main features of the face without detailed drawing. The cartoon and caricature are humorous, satirical in nature with the aim of ridiculing the object.

According to photography - a portrait from a photo is a fairly new direction, at first not recognized.

Chamber - the most common type. Neutral background, careful drawing of details, the figure of a man is depicted to the waist, chest or shoulders.

in profile

half turn

At three quarters

What do you need to draw?

Before you start drawing lessons, you need to get everything you need. First, it is a work surface.

Ideally, this should be an easel, but for the first time, a regular table may also work.

Easels are metal and wooden.

It is better to choose with a stand for accessories.

To fix the sheet on the easel, you need push pins for wood and magnets for metal.

Now what we will draw on is the canvas.

The first sketches can be done in a regular album, but for a full-fledged drawing, you will need A3 sheets.

For paints, it is advisable to purchase your own type of paper:

• paper - acrylic, gouache, tempera, oil;
• thick watercolor paper;
• tinted - for pastels, sanguine, coal;
• paper for drawing, drawing paper - for working with a pencil.

Tools:

1. Utility knife or sharpener. Professional artists use a clerical knife to sharpen pencils - this makes the tip of the lead extremely sharp and thin, which allows you to draw clear and even lines. It is not difficult to learn how to sharpen with a knife - you need to draw the blade from the wooden base to the tip of the stylus from all sides, while not pressing hard on the knife.
2. You need a palette to mix colors.. Best of all - plastic, it is easiest to wash off the paint from it. You can buy it in a store - but plastic caps from cosmetics, etc. will also work as a palette.
3. brushes. For watercolor - squirrel or columns. For gouache and tempera, synthetics, bristles, and natural materials are suitable. For acrylic, oil - bristles and synthetics.
4. Palette knife. Spatula for applying and scraping paint, great for acrylics and oils.
5. Bucket for water, rags for brushes and for hands.

Materials:

1. Pencils. You will need a set of art pencils for drawing of different hardness.
2. Paints. The most basic are gouache and watercolor. Acrylic and tempera are distinguished by their brightness and density, they are often recommended for children. The oil technique is the most difficult.
3. Crayons. Pastel - for color work, sanguine and charcoal - for a monochrome drawing.

Where to start learning?

Mothers themselves can teach their child the basics of drawing - this is not so difficult as it seems at first glance. The main thing is to devote time to the matter every day, and the result will not keep you waiting.

Stages of learning:

1. First of all, you need to try to work with all the materials. Each of them has its own composition, texture, features - a gouache stroke lays down tightly, watercolor stains spread smoothly, a soft pencil draws a thick rich line and is easily smeared, a hard one almost scratches the sheet. Take an album or a notebook and try everything there is to your heart's content.
2. The next step is to learn how to hold the brush and pencil correctly. There are all sorts of options on this topic, but everyone holds the way they feel comfortable. One general rule: the pencil should not be held like a pen when writing, so that the hand does not block the drawing. In this case, the tool should “fly” in the hand - both up and down, and in all directions. Therefore, we clamp not at the base, but a little lower, almost in the middle, while the index and thumb lie freely on the cone.
3. Now about how to draw with a simple pencil:
   • First, just draw the lines. Straight lines, obliquely, in a wave, in a semicircle - gradually the lines will come out clear and confident. The main thing here is training.
     
     
   • Hatch. First, we draw the strokes in one direction, then in different ones, and then we combine, for example, vertical and horizontal, but without superimposing one on the other, but placing them perpendicular to each other. The next step is to draw simple geometric shapes.
     
   • . The concept of perspective is that objects narrow as they move away from a certain point towards the horizon. The ability to draw in perspective is necessary when you need to depict a figure sideways or turning the head. It is not difficult to see it in the environment: it can be a corridor, a room, a street. If you pay attention, you can see that all the lines go obliquely from the viewer and connect at one point. To get acquainted with a perspective image in practice, we start with the simplest: a road, a corridor, etc., and then draw geometric shapes in the same way.
     
4. We mix different colors on the palette to get shades. It is believed that there are only three primary colors - red, yellow, blue, and all other colors are shades, the result of mixing. When working with paints, with the exception of watercolors, we use white.
5. Finally, you can try to draw a face. We draw from pictures - at first from the simplest, cartoonish ones, gradually moving on to more complex ones.

Learn to Draw a Portrait - A Step by Step Guide for Beginners

In this lesson we will draw a female face. This drawing scheme is universal, it can be used to make a portrait of both a boy and a girl.

Construction of the head and general contour:

Working with Planes

Now let's draw the planes in the form of geometric shapes. Let's start with the nose - we outline the back and wings of the nose with a rectangle. Then we select the plane of the cheekbones in the form of a trapezoid, circle the eyes and lips.

We have broken the future drawing into main parts. You can draw the forehead, eyebrows and chin in the same way.

Face detail - eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, ears

Eyes and eyebrows:

1. We draw the contours of the upper and lower eyelids. Please note that the eyelids are different from each other, draw very carefully so as not to miss a single detail.
2. We draw the entire iris - that is, the part that is hidden by the upper eyelid.
3. Designate the pupil and glare (reflected light).
4. Let's move on to shading the mirror surface of the eye. We leave the highlight unpainted. The iris is darker at the outer edge and along the contour - in the center and at the pupil it is lighter.
5. We work on the eyelids and the area around the eye. We designate the shadows - on the crease of the upper eyelid, lower, at the bridge of the nose. The ciliary edge of the lower eyelid remains light, and the white of the eye is darker along the contour at the edge of the eyelid. The shadow from the upper eyelid partly falls on the eyeball.
6. We create volume with a stroke, painting over the entire area - from the eyebrows to the lower eyelid.
7. We draw eyebrows. We draw the main line and from it we begin to draw each hair with a soft pencil, all in one direction. We also draw eyelashes.

1. Outline the main parts - the back, wings of the nose, nostrils. Draw in detail the outer and inner edges of the nostrils.
2. Define the shadows. Conditionally divide all planes into three - shadow, transition, light part (we do not hatch it).
3. Detailed shading.

1. Let's sketch a general outline. First of all, draw a line between the lips. To do this, draw three circles - two below, close to each other, in place of the lower lip, and one at the top, in the middle between the lower ones, so that the circle falls into the hole between them. The line where all three circles connect will be the line between the lips. Outline the contour of the lips in circles, finish drawing the corners, give the upper lip the shape of an onion. Do not forget that the lower lip is slightly larger than the upper.
2. We shade. The upper lip is always darker. Pay attention to the side shadows.
3. We give volume with the help of hatching, working out in detail the corners, side shadows and the line between the lips.

1. We carefully draw all the parts - curls, ear canal, fossa, lobe.
2. We apply a shadow and do hatching, especially concentrating on small details, transitions from light to shadow - the ear is the most difficult in this regard.

Hatching and halftones

As already mentioned, the volume depends on the stroke. To draw a beautiful, expressive picture - you need to be good at hatching techniques.

Ideally, you need to have a full set of pencils of different softness. This is important not only for the saturation and depth of the hue (soft ones give a dark deep tone, hard ones give light and light lines) - this is important both in technical terms and for conveying the density and structure of the subject.

A hard pencil sketch is made without hatching, because it overlaps easily and will not be visible in the final version.

Soft pencil and draws softly. It is ideal for shadows, as well as for visually conveying the softness of the depicted nature - they are good at drawing hair and clothes.

Hatching technique involves combining strokes of different lengths and directions.

All the strokes are superimposed evenly, neatly, one to the other, the stroke should not be “hairy” and chaotic, there is no need to impose too many layers of hatching in one place - otherwise it will just be dirt.

To create smooth transitions, for example, to mark a fold, we impose short strokes at the transition point, in other places using a longer stroke.

When you need to create a transition from dark to light, create halftones - first we stroke the entire plane with the lightest tone, and then paint over the shadow with a softer pencil.

In certain cases, you can slightly shade the transition point with your fingertip - for example, when drawing shadows at the bridge of the nose.

An example of creating a portrait step by step in the photo:

Highlight and darken

Darkening is not done with a hard pencil. In order for the stroke not to be visible and for the transitions to be smooth, the strokes should be very small.

In darker places, deepen the tone as much as necessary by applying several layers of shading. We either don’t stroke light places at all, or we take the hardest one.

You can also use the eraser to create a highlight.

Video tutorial on drawing a portrait from a photo:

Portraits for sketching

Working with nature is very difficult. Before that, it is advisable to take an already drawn portrait and repeat it on paper. This practice will help to fill your hand and learn the technical side of the work, as well as to study the techniques used by artists.

How to learn to paint portraits with paints?

How to draw with a pencil, we have dismantled. Now let's talk about painting with paints. This video will talk about different techniques, completely different - and about watercolor painting, and about working with oil. Everyone can choose what they like.

Drawing in watercolor. Video lesson:

Oil painting basics for beginners. Video lesson:

In conclusion of the article, it is worth noting that the most important secret of success in drawing is perseverance and daily practice. Don't give up if you don't succeed the first time. Try again and draw a portrait for sure.

Women and men have fundamental differences in body structure. But, in today's world, some women look like men because of their clothes and hairstyles. However, no matter how hard a woman tries to look like a man, we can still recognize her. The main distinguishing feature is the structure of the woman's body - these are wide hips and narrower shoulders (in men, exactly the opposite figures). At drawing a woman in full growth it is worth starting from this basic rule, and the rest of the secrets of construction can be learned from this step-by-step lesson.

Materials and tools:

1. White sheet of paper.
2. Simple pencil.
3. Eraser.

Stages of work:

Photo 1. First you need to draw a vertical center line with a simple pencil. We leave serifs at the edges of the segment. They will determine the total body height that cannot be exceeded:

Photo 2. We divide the segment in half. Thus, the line is divided into two parts, along which we will later build the body. Next, divide the upper segment in half again, and measure another half from the resulting upper segment. The uppermost segment is the height of the woman's head:

Photo 3. Now you need to outline the location of the shoulders. The shoulder line will be under the head, namely under the second (top) serif. Let's retreat a little down from the head, leaving some room for the neck. Draw the line of the shoulders at an angle, because the woman will stand slightly leaning:

Photo 4. Next, we need to find out the place of the waist and knees. To do this, you need to divide the center line into three parts. To make this easy, we divide the lower half of the center line in half, but the line of the knees will be slightly higher. We measure its height and transfer it to the center line three times, leaving serifs. The result should be three equal parts:

Photo 5. Now we outline the waist line. It will be located on the serif between the first and second half of the divided center line (there are 3 parts in total), and the hips are slightly lower and twice as wide as the waist. We draw the hips and waist at an angle, opposite to the shoulders:

Photo 6. We unite the shoulders and waist along the edges, and from the waist we draw a line to the hips. It is necessary to outline the length of the skirt - it will be equal to two distances from the waist to the hips:

Photo 7. From the shoulders we outline the location of the hands. The left arm will be bent at the elbow and is at waist level, and the right arm will be raised and laid aside:

Photo 8. Now let's draw the legs. Do not forget that the knees should be located at the level of the notch. The right leg will go a little behind the left:

Photo 9. Let's draw the head in the form of an oval, and on it we will "outline" the hair. Most of them will fall to the left side:

Photo 10. Let's draw the hands and give them a shape. The girl will hold her left hand at the waist, and the right hand will be set aside:

Photo 12. With an eraser, we remove the extra lines that were previously needed for construction. Strengthen the contour of the woman's body:

Photo 13. Let's draw the features of the woman's face. We don’t put much emphasis on drawing the face, because our main task is to learn how to draw a woman in full growth, namely the body. You can study my separate lesson "how to draw a female portrait", where I work out the details of the girl's face in detail:

Photo 14. Set the tone for the hair. Near the bends we make the strokes of the pencil denser:

This is one of the most difficult types of art. The physique must be studied in detail in parts. We have already considered some elements. Before you start, be sure to read these few recommendations from professional artists:

1. First you need to think about the approximate location of all elements
2. For sketching, take a sharpened pencil of medium hardness (I used HB and 2B, write in the comments which pencils you used), which will allow you to sketch thin lines.
3. Do not erase the sketch lines until the desired result is clearly visible.
4. Keep Proportions
5. Note that the face has a pointed shape at the bottom and a more rounded one at the top.
6. Practice! The more you train, the better you will learn to convey the necessary emotions and nuances of human facial expressions.

And now let's move on to the lesson.

How to draw a person's face step by step:

Step one. The face of this oval shape. First, make an oval and divide it with lines. The vertical line exactly in the middle crosses it, and the horizontal lines are arranged as follows. The first divides the face just below half, and the second still half from the remaining lower part of the face. We can't give exact measurements because everyone's faces are different. But the task of these lines is to outline (this is vertical), as well as the location of the lips (horizontal bottom line). Keep in mind that these will need to be erased later, so don't press too hard on the paper with the stylus. If you press hard on the paper, it will deform, and the drawing will look like a girl who is preparing for plastic surgery. (Will ) Step two. Make indicative strokes at the place where. And also add lines for , and halfway between the nose and chin. Make the line that represents the lower lip wider. Step three. Let's move on to drawing. They are located just above the nose. The outer edges of the nose indicate where the inner corners of the eyes will go. Make a sketch as shown in the picture. There is another important factor to consider here. Human anatomy is arranged so that the distance between the eyes is equal to the size of another eye. This is indicated by the red arrow in the figure. Now let's add the eyebrows. Tip: even if one eyebrow is raised and the eyebrows are the same height, start drawing from the inside (points closer to the nose). To get an idea of ​​how high the brows are, add another imaginary eye above the left eye - this should give you more or less the correct height for the brows. Step 4 Let's add a mouth. In the previous lesson, we already covered some points. For example, we tried to depict . But there is another important point, a lot of questions from novice artists about how big should the mouth be? Draw mentally two lines from the inner corners of the eyes down. This will be the approximate size of the company, with a smile it can be a little wider. Step 5. Now we erase the auxiliary lines that we made in the first two steps. Let's see what we got. In principle, the sketch is ready. Now it remains to decorate, add shadows. Step six. Give the shape of the face more specificity. Pay attention to the cheekbones and the shape of the chin. This woman has a strong chin, but try not to make it too strong or she will turn into a man. Draw black pupils, and add eyelids. requires focus. This is the mirror of the soul. Look closely at the animation. You will see in what sequence it is best to do this. Step last. With a simple pencil, add shadows to give the drawing volume and make it more realistic. That's all. We will look at other parts of the human body in more detail in the following lessons. Leave also your work, and write comments about how, Only we have such lessons, see for yourself.

Only those who studied at special courses or at an art school will be able to draw a person’s face from nature or from a photograph, since this is not an easy task. To fully transfer the proportions to paper, you need to know the many nuances of each element.

However, if you are a beginner who already has some drawing skills, you can try your hand at drawing a face. First, you should practice drawing various features on a draft: lips, eyebrows, nose. Then, you can take a blank sheet of paper and proceed to the first step of this lesson.

Necessary materials:

• paper;
• eraser;
• pencil;
• marker;
• colored pencils in red, brown, blue, orange tones.

Drawing steps:

1. Draw an oval. This will be the head. Let's draw two auxiliary lines in the center.

2. Now we will correct the shape of the face. With simple curved lines we denote the hair.

3. Let's draw the eyebrows and the upper eyelid of the eye, which should be on a horizontal line.

4. We finish the eyes, namely the lower eyelid, eyeball and pupil, as well as eyelashes. Add a line in the center where the nose is placed.

5. Draw the nose and mouth. The lips will be wide and large.

6. Let's draw the general shape of the hairstyle around the head.

7. Draw the neck and shoulders below.

8. We detail the girl's hair - let's draw the strands.

9. Outline the contour of the face, eyes, eyebrows, nose and lips with a black marker. We will also go over each line of the neck, shoulders, hair.

10. We begin to decorate the phased drawing of the face. First of all, let's color the girl's hair. They will be red. Take an orange pencil and completely shade it along the contour of the hairstyle. In some places, you can give volume with a brown pencil. You can also make the girl a different hair color.

11. Now let's move on to the girl's delicate and sensitive skin. To give a natural look, we first use a pink pencil, then red to create penumbra, and brown for shadow areas.

12. Let's make the girl's lips bright red.

13. Decorate the chic eyebrows on the face with a brown pencil.

14. Then move on to the eyes. Color the lower and upper eyelids with a black marker. Let's make the iris blue. Also decorate the pupil with a marker.

It turned out a beautiful portrait of a girl, and you learned how to draw a woman's face. To draw a man's face, use the same steps, just change their features. After all, the men are more rude.

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Learning the basics of drawing will help you become a good painter later on. People who are just learning the basics of drawing often have difficulty with how to draw with a simple pencil. In this article, we'll talk about the tricks that make this complex process interesting and not so intimidating. The lesson will be based on simple ones on which we will “dress” the face. We will understand step by step, The face of a girl in full face will not be a very difficult task. So let's get started.

Of course, without anatomical knowledge, it is difficult to tell how to draw a human face, so we will use the so-called base, which will help us determine the exact location of the eyes, nose, ears and mouth. In the future, if you decide to continue drawing, you will definitely need to master the anatomical drawing of the human body.

Face oval

So, today we are learning to draw a person's face, and we will start our drawing with an oval head. If we miss all the anatomical details and look at the human head schematically, we will see an oval resembling a chicken egg. We divide it into symmetrical halves with a vertical line, and then a horizontal one (line of pupils). From these lines we will build on.

Auxiliary lines

Ears

In the diagram, the place where the ears should be is marked in yellow. Extend the line of the nose to the intersection with the width of the head, at these points we will have the earlobes. We will adjust the height a little later.

Turn on fantasy

At this stage, we outline the contours of the eyes, eyebrows, tip of the nose, lips and ears. Here you will already see where your ears will end, approximately it will be the eyebrow line. We draw a little oval of the head in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe ears.

The final stage

Slowly erase unnecessary and interfering lines and add details. We draw stronger, add shadows, make the drawing three-dimensional. The hairstyle is already to your taste.

When you draw a drawing and remember how to draw a person's face, check the proportions in parallel. The location of the eyes and mouth fits into an equilateral triangle. The vertices will be located at the corners of the eyes and on the lower edge of the lips. The height of the mouth will be equal to half the width of the female eye, as well as the distance from the tip of the nose to the lips. And the chin in a woman's face will be equal to the width of the eye.

Now you know how to draw a human face without knowledge of anatomy. This method is one of many that help you learn the basics of drawing. Try and you will succeed.