Hello everyone. Meet Miss Generic Face. You can call her GF for short. I call her that because she can look like anyone. Give her a dark skin tone and a red dot on her forehead and you get...
...an Indian lady!
You give her fair skin and blonde hair, you get...
You give her fair skin and blonde hair, you get...
... a Caucasian lady.
So what is Miss Generic Face for?
She is here so you can learn the basics of drawing a face. Later on, I will elaborate on many other things that you will have to consider when drawing faces, (like how Indians have different facial features from Caucasians) but for now, Miss Generic Face is what we will focus on.
This is because by learning to draw GF, you will not have to worry about complicated things (yet) like trying to make it look like a particular person. You don't have to worry about getting the eyes to look Chinese, or the nose to look European. All you have to do is to get your drawing to look human. Simple.
If I were to teach you how to draw Spiderman, you'd have to worry about making him look Caucasian with American-style muscles. If I were to teach you to draw manga, you'd have to worry about making your drawing look manga-ish (huge eyes, clean strokes).
I want none of that. I only want you to learn how to draw a face with no influences whatsoever. No pressure. Just 2 eyes, 1 nose and 1 mouth.
Once you grasp the basics of drawing the human face, then you can learn all the other variations. You don't even have to copy my style. If you develop your own GF, all the better! After all, we're talking about comics here. There is no one correct way of drawing comics.
They can look like any of these images below:
So what is Miss Generic Face for?
She is here so you can learn the basics of drawing a face. Later on, I will elaborate on many other things that you will have to consider when drawing faces, (like how Indians have different facial features from Caucasians) but for now, Miss Generic Face is what we will focus on.
This is because by learning to draw GF, you will not have to worry about complicated things (yet) like trying to make it look like a particular person. You don't have to worry about getting the eyes to look Chinese, or the nose to look European. All you have to do is to get your drawing to look human. Simple.
If I were to teach you how to draw Spiderman, you'd have to worry about making him look Caucasian with American-style muscles. If I were to teach you to draw manga, you'd have to worry about making your drawing look manga-ish (huge eyes, clean strokes).
I want none of that. I only want you to learn how to draw a face with no influences whatsoever. No pressure. Just 2 eyes, 1 nose and 1 mouth.
Once you grasp the basics of drawing the human face, then you can learn all the other variations. You don't even have to copy my style. If you develop your own GF, all the better! After all, we're talking about comics here. There is no one correct way of drawing comics.
They can look like any of these images below:
1. Hajime no Ippo
2. The Meek
3. Doraemon
4. Garfield
5. Superman
The drawing styles are so different, but they're all called one thing - comics!
Now that I've introduced you to Miss GF, in my next post, I will tell you about the general rules I abide by when drawing comics - simplify and exaggerate!
2. The Meek
3. Doraemon
4. Garfield
5. Superman
The drawing styles are so different, but they're all called one thing - comics!
Now that I've introduced you to Miss GF, in my next post, I will tell you about the general rules I abide by when drawing comics - simplify and exaggerate!
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