How to Draw Hair
Drawing hair shouldn’t make you pull your own hair out IF you follow a logical, step-by-step approach to the task and you set aside enough time. The trick is to work from the general to the specific: But first these are the materials you will need: Good drawing paper....
How to Draw the Head & Neck
Plotting the Facial FeaturesGetting your head around drawing a “generic” head and how and where to place the facial features means you can draw a realistic human face freehand. And, if you are attempting to draw a particular face from a reference, knowing the “norm”...
How to Draw Teeth
Tooth be told, teeth are not easy to draw well. They are very individualistic and often differ in shape from their counterparts; e.g. two incisors or two canine teeth in the same jaw may look very different from each other. This means that careful observation, (if you...
How to Draw a Mouth
The mouth, even more than the eyes, conveys not only our opinions but also our emotions for the world to see. As with noses, eyes and ears, there is tremendous individual variation on a standard theme in mouths. If you can identify the parts of a “generic” mouth, it...
How to Draw a Nose
Noses are noseworthy – the nose is the only part of ourselves constantly in view when we open our eyes. (Our brain adapts, so unless we concentrate we don’t consciously see it). There’s an almost infinite variety of noses and they are arguably the most noticeable part...
How to Draw Ears
In this tutorial we will draw ears that don’t look eerie! Ears don’t draw as much attention as the other parts of a face and are often totally hidden by hair. A closer look shows that they are very complicated – in fact perhaps more so than the rest of the face put...
How to Draw Eyes
In this tutorial we will learn to draw the eye. We will start off by constructing the outlines of the eye onto the paper, then proceed to shade it in until it looks realistic. In the process I will show you the common mistakes that artists make when constructing their...