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Art Tutorials/Traditional Media/Drawing/How to draw a face
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Draw a circle.
Draw a light vertical line at the center of the circle.
Make light horizontal dashes a little above the center of the circle.
Draw another light horizontal line just below the dashed lines.
Draw the jaw-line of your character at the bottom half of the circle. Where it meets at the center vertical line it should basically look like a big "V" in the end.
Draw two vertical lines at the base of the jaw to make the neck.
Add the eyes at the horizontal line with the eyebrows going up to the dashed horizontal line.
To draw the eyes, make a half-oval shape. Then draw a horizontal line underneath the oval. Place a black dot in the middle for the pupils.
Make your nose along the vertical line and end with the mouth just below it.
To draw the nose, draw a slanted line going down to the right, then draw another smaller slanted line going down to the left. *Nostrils are generally triangular shaped.
Draw the ears as high as the dashed line and about as low as the nose.
To draw the ears, make half-oval shapes on the side of the head.
Make the hairline above the dashed line to show were the hair stops. You can make the hair however you want.
Trace over the head with a pen if you wish.
Erase any extra lines, and you now have a human head.
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