Let's Draw Faces!

Children love to draw cartoons, but to draw a good one one must draw realistically first. the following is one of Mizz Mac's Easy Artsy Lessons for Beginners:

Supplies needed:

a hand held mirror

White paper

Pencil, eraser

A variety of crayons, markers, or colored pencils

1. First draw a small dot in the middle of your paper. Look in the mirror at the eyes. The dark circle is the pupil. The colored part is the iris. Look at the shape of the eye. It’s a football or almond shape. Draw a football shape on one side of the dot. Draw another football shape on the other side of the dot.

2. Look in the mirror again. What covers the eyes? There are upper and lower eye lids. Draw curved lines for the top and lower eyelids.

3. Look at the iris. Is it a whole circle? No. The upper part of the circle isn’t seen. Draw irises in each. Also look at the pupil. You can see the while black circle. Draw the pupils in each eye.

4. Add short lines on the eyelids for the eyelashes. Draw curved lines above the eyes for eyebrows.

5. Draw a nose in between the eyes and a little below the eyes.

6. Draw a mouth by first drawing the shadow line of the closed lips. Then draw curvy lines for the top lip and one curve line for the bottom lip. See below for examples of mouths. Manly man lips are sometimes thin. Girly girl lips are sometimes curvy.

7. Draw “(“ and “)” on the outer sides of the eyes for ears.

8. Draw the jawline beginning at the bottom of one ear, curve around and below the mouth and back up to the bottom of the next ear. See below for examples of jawlines.

9. Finish the drawing by adding straight and curvy lines for the hair at the top of the head. Draw curvy lines for the neck. Manly man necks are thicker and straighter than girly girl ones. Add shoulders and shirt lines.

Example:

For more check out my Drawing Faces with Beginners or Mona Lisa Self Portraits drawing project on teachers pay teachers. www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/Gena_Mcwilliams