A couple of weeks ago I decided to learn to draw faces. First off I scribbled along with a YouTube video and learned to draw faces looking in different directions.
After watching a few more YouTube videos, I followed their general instructions to draw a larger face. The result was okay, but not realistic.
I was particularly unimpressed with the nose, so decided that was the part of the face to start learning to draw better first. Watching more videos, and reading a few tutorials too, I attempted to draw some noses.
The key to drawing a nose is that most of it’s shading. However, despite the nose videos and tutorials, and also having watched a few shading videos, I still was very unhappy with my noses.
Recognising that I never intended to be a portrait artist anyway, I gave up, thinking I’d just wasted a couple of hours.
A few of days later I had a go at drawing some fairy faces with easier noses. This also involved exploring a little about drawing hair.
After that I decided to return to faces once I’d learnt to draw bodies. However a week later I decided to draw a still life of some leaves and logs. Although it’s far from perfect, I found the shading so much easier to do. I also did it all with just a 2B pencil.
So I guess the time spent attempting to draw a decent nose wasn’t wasted after all. And who knows? I might yet become portrait artist anyway 😉
Until next time,
Bekki x
We could also get on with the gardening. Lovely Hubby finished cutting the hedges…
As well as being dry it’s also sometimes been very windy. Unfortunately the wind blew down one of our bird boxes – glad it wasn’t nesting time of year…
