This little shape will change the way you draw FACES from any angle
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It's easy to start drawing the head. But how do you place a face in it? This drawing tutorial will help you solve that. From different angles, from any angle, even from below angle!! And yes, the answer is in the weird pink thing in the thumbnail.
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This is a drawing tutorial for the head and face. Place the eyes in the head place the nose in the head how to draw jaws how to draw faces how to draw a head how to draw eyes draw the head from any angle draw faces from any angle
This is legit, lately i realized i've been drawing my eyes & brows too close together because i haven't been establishing the nose first.
Drawing the nose first is an absolute gamechanger.
It is! If you still find it hard, remember that the tear duct is in a straight vertical line to your nostril. So when the sides of the nose end, the eyes begin!
Nose supremacy
@@TopatTomNOSE SUPREMACY
A face is typically five eyes wide; the eyes should be about one eye space apart.
me drawing anime (there is no nose):
helpful asf. i always start with eyes and it is easy for it to be wonky right away
I'm glad you found it useful!!! Let me know if it works for you.
In all my years of drawing (8 years), i have never been able to figure out faces. I draw semi-realism, leaning more to the cartoony side, and draw faces so so well. But it has been a STRUGGLE🤣. Thank you so much for showing me a technique that will help make drawing faces so much easier
I hope this helped you!!! If you put it in practice and i helps let me know!
I draw a whole owl, then the rough circle.
@@Sombody123 ahhhh the old spongebob method. A classic!
Omg spongebob hiii!
I.know someone like you
Now all you need is a tutorial on how to NOT erase the owl to get the rough circle
@@rr.studios I'm working on a tutorial where you draw the owl and the circle at the same time with both hands. stay tuned.
omg, this tip was right under our noses the entire time!
thank you for making this video, this is gonna help a LOT!
You are welcome! Im glad to help!
Bhahahaha
What I like about your video is how you draw slowly and explain basically every step you do. Because my worst problem as a begginer is not being able to see what the art teachers even do at the time. I also can't do both listening their tips and concentrate on their work in the same time. This speed is just right for me
Thanks so much. It is hard to make a video that fits the "youtube speed" of showing things while also taking the time to make it easy to understand!
Agreed! It's one of those things that I think is probably a lot harder than it seems. Which is probably why it's so rare
I didn’t realize until now that my tendency to draw the nose and brows before eyes and lips is why faces have been easy for me to get the effects I want. Now understanding what I was doing I want to intentionally apply this concept to more realistic styles since I tend to lean toward stylized work.
Thank you so much!
You are welcome! If you read the comments you'll see you are not alone. There's a lot of us who found it easier to do it this way!
@@Javicandraw this is my favorite aspect of the internet honestly, being able to connect with tons of other artists and help each other improve.
I will take you up on that, I’m sure there’s more tips and tricks ppl have shared as well.
@@censheard7019 thats why i do this videos. Being an artist can be very lonely. We need to find and support each other somehow!
I have been drawing for decades and you just changed my life! This is SO much more effiecient
hahahaha this makes me super happy!
Same
it's really funny i've always actually started with the nose when drawing faces but it's usually more of the ridge of the nose rather than the tip
It's valid! if it works for you then you should keep doing it that way.
@@Javicandraw i did really enjoy the video it's always so cool how many different ways there are to do things!
@@bluefox7092 we do almost the same thing. I start with the tip of the nose tho but I think I’ll try your method next just to see if I like it more starting with the ridge.
Lucky me I've always drawn the nose first thanks to a how to draw book making that one of the first steps in drawing a face 😊
1:01 me: and I felt that.
Hehehe then you dont need my help!
I totally agree! I used to draw eyes first, but I had trouble placing them. The nose is a very underappreciated facial landmark!
Dear LORD THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR OMG
Cool!!!!! Did you try it?
@@Javicandraw Everything CLICKED
I’m actually pretty psyched to try this method out
@@DreamerSeeker im glad! Let me know if it works out for you
I actually, when started to draw faces from b/w shapes without a sketch as first step, eventually came to a subconscious conclusion of starting with nose making it easier. Never paid attention as to why, but now I see my conclusions explained
You were right all along ;)
This is a nice tip. These are the kind of bits and bobs drawing tutorials that I tend to click on.
Recently learned something similar to the cheekbone tip from twitter and it's a favourite of mine.
ooooh what about the cheekbone? I want to know!
@@Javicandraw Just a thing like the one in your video where you draw a slight indent in the face where the eyes are the map out the brow and cheekbone on either side. Which of course varies in depth depending on who you are drawing. But I feel so much more confident in my sketches when I do it xd
@@MACKYBOY-41 If it works it works! there's also a sinix video where he uses the top of the cheekbone to place the ear and it's a good tip too.
i started doing this a few years ago and yesss since i started doing it it just makes drawing faces from different angles and spacing everything way easier. It's weird how I've never heard anybody talk about it. I just kinda started doing it out of nowhere but I'm sure it would've been way more helpful to have started sooner
@@kadyriverm thats great! I sort of figured it out from being frustrated when drawing faces. I felt something was missing
The reason people do a basic structure then start with the eyes is (I think) because the direction they're looking is key to the meaning of the drawing. You make the great point that the nose is part of the basic structure. After placing the nose, I'd go with the Loomis style facial features -- I'm more interested in a realistic face most of the time. It will be much easier to do given the placement of the nose. Thanks.
You are welcome! I also started with the eyes for most of my life. And y think that being a very expressive part of the face we want to jump straight to it. But then i found this method and i like it a lot better
This is what I love about yours and Ben’s style. It’s very stylized and cartoonified, very few do I see useful tutorials like yours and very straightforward. Thank you 🙏 ❤
Comparing me to ben eblen is very high praise. Thank you!
This is so simple and yet I'm floored. I did a few 30 second sketches and it's like the first time man discovered fire. Thank you 😂🙏
Awesome!!!!! Im happy to help!
Great video! I love the fact that there's a part where I can follow along in real time and try the technique for myself. I hesitated for a moment, but I pulled out my iPad and launched Procreate without pausing the video and just followed along and it worked out great. The fact that I have a sketched up portrait in front of me after watching a 5 minute video is mind blowing for me right now.
Im really glad to hear that! Its hard to balance “youtube rhythm” with showing how to do stuff with clarity
This and the video on how to draw heads from lower angles are so helpful and good and short. Not people that will talk for 15 minutes and not say anything helpful.
It's like u know people's common problems and tackle it exactly, thanks, I've already subscribed and gonna check out other videos
I try to male videos about problems I have and how i try to solve them. Im happy to share what i find!
I also start with the nose, except bc of my artstyle i do nose bridge line first, then the tip of the nose and then move onto eyes
When i see thumbnails like this i always do next:
I sit down in my chair, make myself a cup of coffee and say: "Well. Surprise me"
Edit: i was, in fact, surprised
@@CorpusGreed and did I? I hate playong the clickbait game but it is a must these days, I hope you found the video useful!
@@JavicandrawI always had trouble when drawing noses and making them pair well with the face, and just recently started to slowly understand how it works.
Your tutorial though, gave a MASSIVE buff. Thank you
@@CorpusGreed woohoooo! Thats why I do this!!!! Im glad it helped!!!
Wow, this is incredibly useful information! Thank you!
You are welcome!
I am an artist. I watch art vids. I like your voice and way of speaking. You're very easy to listen to. Good job! Thanks for the art lesson too. 1:29
Thank you! I do my best to be clear!
I just tried it and it feels so much easier!!! Thank youuu ❤❤
Awesome!!!!
Super useful thank you!!!
Me drawing circles for faces with no noses and no jaw: 🐱
samee😂😂
if you ever feel like trying something different, this video will be here for you!
i would do this except i really like mario and luigi and they cant do that auughh
@@Javicandrawprobably won’t but Thankyou anyways!
There are several reasons I've shied away from drawing faces, namely being that I started off drawing ponies, and animals, and I like to think I'm pretty okay at doing that, but human faces have been an enigma for me.
One note for you animal-artists out there! The bottom of the nose (the nostrils, the underside of the tip and where it connects to the face) is an upside-down cat nose when you look at it, this helped me solve the Nose Problem I was having of not knowing how to approach the dreaded nostrils.
And funny enough, that eye mask thing is gonna be really useful to me too! Eye placement was another struggle, thanks so much for this video!
Upside down cat!!!!! Thats an amazing tip! Any tip on drawing animals??
Yes! This is VERY helpful! Thank you ❤
Muchísimas gracias!! Qué maquinote de persona! A veces, pasamos por alto las cosas más simples y nos perdemos en detalles que nos hacen olvidar lo más importante
Gracias!!!
Ooh DEFINITELY going to try this out later! 👀
Cool! let me know if it worked!
very helpful! thank you
Subscribed, thank you hugely.
Thank you for the sub!!! I hope you like the next videos as well.
Thank you so much!
You are welcome!
Thank you for this!
Amazing!
Sooooo helpful. Thank you.
You are welcome!
This really is a game-changer! Thank you very much!
You are welcome, happy to help!
Thanks I usually use another method circle and the division of 3 I will certainly try this see how it turns out.😊
That sounds like a good method as well!
It worked for me, thanks for sharing.
I'm glad to hear it!
i usually avoid drawing the nose and put a kind of squiggle to symbolize a nose instead. It's not perfect, but it helps. This helps even more and I'm very excited to use it in my drawings with how simple and easy it is to apply!
Cool!!! Let me know if it works!
You know, thinking about it, after I draw the face structure (I don't do the circle + jaw strat), I normally get started with the mouth, then the nose, then eyes, eyebrows, ears, and, lastly, the hair/hat.
I kinda just did my face drawings from the bottom-up. I'd even draw bodies starting from the feet/shoes.
hahahaha I never heard of someone doing it like that. Does it work for you?
@@Javicandraw I've been doing it since I was a child, so it's comfortable to me.
It's probably considered to be a madlad's approach.
Thank you!! Super helpful
Wonderful tip! I've always started with the cheek/jaw/chin when doing faces. I know it's strange and not the right way of doing things. I always struggled with the foundations of setting up shapes and lines since I've always had a hard time seeing people, animals, and plants as basic shapes. However, I tried your method and it worked wonders! Laying down my circle and giving it a nose before moving on to my beloved jaw/cheek line (albeit gently) really helped me correct a lot of issues with perspective that I was struggling with! Plus it's easy for someone butt-backwards like me to understand. Thank you! I've been trying to brush up on my skills since I'm making art for a video game of mine and also working on a comic, so I'll be looking through more of your videos!
Im so glad i helped you! But remember that mine is just one way, but not the only one. If you do something that works better for you then stick to it!
This makes me happy because I've been drawing the noses first for a while now! I don't even think about it, it's just what feels right to me, and this helps me understand why! It was probably especially important for me since I usually skip the guidelines (I actually have often found my pictures look worse when I use them for some reason, which I'm pretty sure is just a me thing. They were good for learning though)
I know the feeling. Once I started with the nose everything clicked for me. It feels natural.
I have come to realise after watching this video, that i have always draw the nose before Any other feature on the face. But this is relly insightful for me, because now i know what i am doing. So thank you 👍
Cool!!! Thank you so much for watching!
This is really helpful, thank you! I've always struggled with faces, but i really think this might help me a lot. Thanks!
😁💖🏴
That's great! I'm glad to help!
Great thanks, I also love Jane Davenport Face Maths method too.
incredibly handy. you're the best
Thanks!! Did you try it already? let me know if it works!
Honestly though, ever since I started drawing the facial features nose-first my faces have been WAY more consistent. I mean it makes sense, it's the most prominent part of the face, it sticks out the most and is a clear indicator of the direction the head is pointing. It drives the whole face.
It does!! But a lot of us drew the eyes first for years. So i thought about sharing this so I can help others.
This is so helpful. Thanks!!!
You are welcome! happy to help!
I first draw how the lower eyelid should sit on the cheekbone, it forms a line from which I can define the cheek shape, the nose, the brows, and thus figure out actual eye position and then draw it.
I learned by looking at how Ennead webcomic draws chisled characters, very skilled and beautiful.
I'll look into it, it sounds like a solid technique!
I draw eyes first because I'm in love with eyes. The corners help me figure out the nose width by making an x shape from each inner corner.
I know the eyes are one eye length apart from each other. Where I fall apart is the jaw and mouth.
But eyes, brows, ears, nose? I'm good!
Cool!! Thanks for sharing your technique!
I'm surprised I actually figured this out by myself before watching the video. It's certainly way more helpful than drawing from the eyes. It's easy to get lost that way
I know! I'm not saying I invented it (in fact, a previous comment reminded me of an olf video where I actually got this from), but after looking for more tutorials on this I found that a lot of the newer videos don't even mention this.
THANKS very helpful for me and my friend 💞🥑
You are welcome, say hi to your friend from me!
I have been doing this but i never realised until i saw this video today lol, I always tend to do the nose lines first whenever the face is at an angle alongwith the eyebrows to give it the depth lol
It feels right and it’s also super easy!
Fantastic. Congrats on getting him the day his 50 came out
I like this. I always begin with the eyes big mistake!!! thank you!!!!
Cool! I'm glad to help!
Thanks. I guess I don’t often draw faces in all directions. But one thing that helped me, is to draw everyday in my sketchbook. I draw people everyday , and it works as a muscle memory . I never draw lines … it’s just natural. Sometimes I ought not get it right from the get go, but as everything, you need to practice and try again and again. I might not help everyone to not draw lines, but it will improved everyone’s skills.
Of course! Practicing is the main thing to do! But if sometimes muscle menory os not enough, its good to have some tricks to help you along the way
@@Javicandraw Yeah I know. I was just saying there is also a natural way to get there (not always but 80% of the time). And sure its great to know how to get over the 20%. I was jsut sharing one simple thing, through personal experience. Also, it might not work for everyone, but I thought it could help and complete your advises.
@@s3lfFish sure! I often struggle with finding the time to sit down and practice, so whenever i need to solve something i have to try to find a faster way
@@Javicandraw understandable. I believe both ways works well together ;) but whatever works, works ;)
Love it ... Thank you so much ❤
You are welcome!
2:55 I do a similar thing I took from the Loomis method, the browline goes into the cheekbone line, but I go from the cheek bone straight down to make the chin. It's kind of like a wide Tesla logo.
Oh yes i know what you mean! I should try it out!
This is awesome!
Thanks!
(Sorry for my broken English, i'm not that good at English)
Thank you so much for making this video. I'm literally struggling to draw face and suddenly this video pops up to me and it make my life easier. I try this method on anime style and it's works (but i need to change the nose shape to a little bit ticker and more rounder shape because i think anime eye usually more seperated, and than just put iconic dot/straight line nose in the middle). I'm not a pro at all, so i don't actually know is it good or not but for me it's working quite good
I'm really glad to read this!!!! I think this works in all styles and I'm happy that it works for you.
This is so good!!
Thanks!
I was actually doing this all this time! It works for me even if i haven’t really studied facial features more seriously.
Were you? hmmmm.... Maybe you are a genius what else do you know ?lol
yooo i never thought of this! i definitely want to try this out 🙌
Try it out! Let me know if it works!
wow!!! we missed you! im glad you back! Best drawing tuts!
Thank you so much! I am happy to be back!
Im not sure where i found the video but there was one I found that talked about Black proportions/features in anime and i believe the formula they used included finding the nose to set the other facial features. It was a direct challenge to the established "cat face" used in anime.
Depending on your drawing style, the nose is a very important feature because its width defines how far apart the eyes are. This is more notable with black characters that have wider noses.
I like drawing the eyes and then the ball
lmao same
What!!! heresy!!!! lol. Try my way out and see if it works better for you.
@@Javicandraw I have, for some reason, when I use the ball my eyes are always hard to get looking properly
Drawing the eyes first helps me proportion the rest of the face
@@user-nx9yn3wq3u Don't make me get my whip out.😛
Wow, love your art style!
I'm pretty new to drawing, but I'm a sucker for drawing character faces. I'll definitely give this a go as I often start with eyes and soooo often they end up being too big once I draw in the rest of the features and I end up shrinking them (bless digital art). Also really reassuring to hear you say the eyes can be above the guide lines. Sometimes I really stress myself out with placement.
If you want to be "scientific" about it, you should focus on the eyes being placed in the guideline. But you don't need to. You need to find your own voice and develop your own style in time and maybe that style includes not placing the eyes on the guidelines.
The guideline is there to help you understand the volume on which you are placing the facial features. nothing else.
@@Javicandraw Yeah that makes sense. Honestly it could be me placing guidelines wrong sometimes too, my lines still sometimes be a bit wonky. I'm still really early stages of experimenting with how I like to draw eyes and the like. Tbh Artfight has really helped me to try out and mimic styles and ideas a bit, been a very helpful tool this year lol.
@@Spamhard Wonky lines have a solution! look for videos on gesture drawing. These are short drawings meant to make your hand really loose and capture poses and features quickly.
@@Javicandraw I'd LOVE to try more gesture drawing. My true love is animation and the flow of movement in that. Would really like my still images to have some of that. I'll keep at it!
Oh you sneaky , that's an very interesting and great approach and it might be something i was missing with my faces! Thank you and you have earned a new subscriber❤
Thanks for the sub! Im glad you found my video helpful!!!
Awesome tutorial. New subscriber.
Thanks!
Im gonna try this
Cool. let me know if you found it useful!
genius
Oh! I already did this! I feel so vindicated rn-- but seriously, once I started drawing the nose first, it made drawing faces SO MUCH EASIER! SERIOUSLY, I HAVE to recommend this. From someone who's been doin' this for, like, a year.
Check out the comments, you are not the only one! Hopefully this video will find the people that could really use this tip.
@@Javicandraw Bingo... commenting for the algorithm so it does!!
I haven't realized until today I was on the right track at least by drawing that first before the eyes and brows lol. I might get diff opinion for "right track" but honestly, whichever works for anyone.
I don't even know when I started drawing the nose first lol. I'm taking a leap and guess it's from an old art tutorial on deviantart or from a bunch of speedpainting vids I watched over the years. Either way, I'm still noob at drawing humans lmao. I'm best with animals and other creatures instead, but I still want to draw my human characters and fanarts hehe.
Cool! Yeah im not claiming i invented somemething new, but i really believe it helps to draw the nose first!
I’m saving this video
As someone who likes drawing interesting noses, this is an absolute win
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
for me, I start with shapes. For a soft character I use circles, more strict characters with squares before I draw the circle idk. It helps me a lot. I also start with mapping the nose first like in this video
I've been thinking about trying this out myself. I find that the circle can be very limiting.
Thank you ! it was really helpful ! :D
You are welcome
Sinix's video has taught me this method and I've been using it ever since!
It's so helpful to draw more complicated perspectives with too.
I'll also check out the mask tutorial for the eyes, I'm struggling with their placement a bit still
Sinix is great, I would recommend his videos to anyone.
Genius Bro
Thanks!
I was teached a bit by a friend with somewhat of a proper art education background. She've shown me that positioning eyebrow+nose line first, so you define a bone structure and then you can place the eyes accordingly. It was about making anime line-art from scratch, but I assume it is applicable to other styles as well.
You should ask your friend for more drawing advice because clearly she knows what she's talking about ;)
Tbh, i felt oddly satisfied for that, drawin the nose helped me more than startin with something else
It just makes sense doesn't it?
I've always drawn the nose first because it's the first feature I look at in a face. On the other hand, I've never done the 'ball and jaw' thing, I just draw a blob, put a nose on it, and worry about refining the face shape later. Maybe that is something I should work on 😅
I think I'm going to start doing a blob as well...I find the ball and jaw too restrictive.
This is legit. When I draw Blinky from Trollhunters (not a human but close enough 😅), I start with the head shape and then immediately the nose. Helps me define his face with any expression!
haha blinky has a massive nose tho, it's hard to miss!
I can't believe no one is using this method.
One of my amateur techniques was connecting the nose and eyebrows to establish the eyes, but of course it didn't have similar results.
I'm really glad this is working out for you!
I call it spider man eye
@@Neptoid hahahaha you are right!!!!
When the video jumped from mouth open to mouth closed, it looked like the man closed his mouth. Someone should try making a whole movie of changes like that - it would appear that the drawings are coming to life. Has this ever been done?
I think you just invented animation.
damn helpful, deserves more attention than it has
Thanks! I only uploaded it yesterday, but share it if you think it might help someone!
My drawing teacher taught us that, when it comes to capturing a person's likeness, the most important thing is the nose. "If you got the nose, you got the person."
@@sparkymularkey6970 i agree with your teacher more and more each day
make this video go viral y'all
@@beezwacks lets gooooo
@@Javicandraw HAIL YEAH :DD i shared this with my friend
i do the nose first, then brow ridge, then everything else, kinda the same lol; but i also like to draw a skull under neath cuz that helps me alot for some reason
You do it because it feels super cool and thats enough reason. Sometimes i do it too hahaha
I don't usually have characters with noses but the ones I do they're usually like a small triangle (they're animals) or It's a yamask (Pokemon) and If It's that I usually draw the nose first anyways. This Is still great advice either way.
Thank you!!! Any tips on drawing animals???
@@Javicandraw Well, I'm not really a professional but I whenever I'm drawing one sitting frontside, for the legs I draw the front legs first then the back legs that are, depending on the angle, are either just two little strokes for the legs and feet or a circle and a tube. (though this Is for sketching)
@@ayeslpirninsev thanks for the tip. Im not good at animals so ill try this out!
Fantastic! Thank you. New sub. 😎👍
Thank you!
Just need to remember: in 3/4 both eyes are the same height [👀] , but the far eye a bit shorter in wide >👁️
That's true! thanks!
Wow. Dude. Just wow.
Thank you.
You are welcome! I'm glad you liked it.
Ben Eblen & Ted Lasso in the SAME 30 seconds?! AND cool art & instructing cadence?? SUBSCRIBED!
@@vampbat I cant guarantee any of that will show up in my next video 🤣
I’ve been doing art a long time how did I not think to do the nose first. This is one of those things I feel stupid after hearing. Whenever I do skull studies, human or animal, I’ll often do closest eye socket, then the nose, then the other socket. This is because, at least at most angles besides profile, the nose ridge impacts the shape of the other socket. But with flesh added, this changes a bit, you’re dealing with the shape from the eyelids, not the bone. Starting with the nose also creates a stronger landmark than just some guidelines.
@@ravioli_826 exactly! And from anatomical standpoint, a lot of the face muscles are attached to the nose as well, so it makes sense that it should go first