Drawing Workshop Pt 2

[Mead]

In reply to the drawing workshop I posted a while back, I got the question of how I draw faces, so I thought, hey, lets make another tutorial.



Start out with the basic guidelines. The head is in principle just an oval egg shape, at this stage only with very slight differences depending on the character you're going to draw.



To establish where the features of the face go, make some cross-shaped guidelines like so, with the lines intersecting in the middle of the face. This point is going to be precisely between the eyes.



The eyes are placed halfway between the top of the scalp, and the tip of your jaw. If you glance in the mirror, you'll also see that if you draw a line through your eyes like the horizontal guideline here, it should graze the top of your ears.



The view these faces are viewed from is called "3/4 view", meaning neither viewed in profile or from the front, but in between. The eyes I make for LiS are dead simple, consisting of two lines and the pupil.

Taking the 3/4 view into consideration, make a simple curve for each eye, making the closest one slightly larger. This is really a matter of preference, and can be as subtle you like, or not at all for that matter. You can also make it really exaggerated for added comical effect.



Now, add the pupils. Real eyes are completely spherical, but these we're drawing today are more oval and catlike. Again, taking perspective into consideration, make one eye subtly larger. Note that the female character has larger eyes than the others. This is because it's considered a very feminine trait and makes us guys all weak-legged and horny, apparently.

Add in the eyebrows while you're at it, a simple curve over the eye. The eyebrows are one of the most dynamic portions of the face, and so it makes a big difference to the expression of the character how they're drawn. Of course, being the idiot I am, I didn't think of drawing these three examples with different expressions. I'll add some more examples at the end of the tutorial.



Fill in the pupils, adding a white area like so. This is the reflection from whatever light source you've decided on. Also note that again the reflection on the female character is again larger. We won't bother with technical stuff like irises on our eyes. This is a comic, cartoony style we're trying to make, so keep it simple simple simple! If you can, use fewer lines instead of more to emphasize features.

You'll notice I'm erasing the guidelines as I add in details. The guidelines are normally very faint, barely discernible, but they're stronger here for added emphasis. Therefore I have to remove them as I go along, or they'd get in the way.




In quick succession, I've added the mouth. Start with the top line, add in the "inner" line, then the "outer" line. Make a little triangle shape in the mouth that follows the contour of the tongue. This makes for nice, easy, "honest" mouths, as Slai once put it. These are the finished pencils of the face.




Start inking your drawing, first going over the lines once, then erasing the pencils and inking over them again. You'll notice your mistakes at this point, probably just as you've etched them into stone by inking them, but sometimes you actually get to fix things here. In this case, I had forgotten about Wolf's sideburns on the pencils.

[Mead]

Here are more examples of expressions you'll be seeing if you follow the comic.



Well, that's another tutorial done with, next I guess I should explain how to draw hands... If you have any questions or anything, PM me or ask right here in this thread.

So what are you waiting for? Get crackin'!

[m&ms]

cool. whenever i draw my hair its all wild and stuff. i like to draw chibi style. wats with the space marine with the tugboat for hair? and a guardswoman!? wow. ive gotta see that.

[Deciever]

Pinned by Deciever. Thanks, Mead.

[gundamfan]

i loooooovveee that gaurdswoman. Man I'm burnin from all that hotness! Wooo wee...

[Long_Shot]

Mead?

I love you man.


*goes and gets working on random eldar sketches*

[the_ultramarine]

that is really neat

[Lazarus Valghyran]

Dude, I needed that. kthx.

Off to doodle.

[gundamfan]

Wow, this topic is so old! I posted here a year ago! Wow! It's like recovering my ancient history.

Anyway, I still think the drawings are great. I wish I could be that good. I can't ever quite get the shapes or proportions right.

[mr_yano]

That is really awesome man. Thanks for sharing.