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Drawing Heads
by Sarah Yim
Posted 2007-07-12
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1. First draw a V-like structure starting from the left to create the chin and cheeks.
2. Then draw an egg-like shape for the right eye and draw a little more than half of that for the left eye because she is being drawn from a sort of side view. In my style, I outline the eyes to make it look darker. (Girls look better with that, in my opinion.)
3. Over the newly formed eyes, border the eye with part of an oval with a small buffer in between. This serves as the upper eyelids.
4.Draw the eyelashes starting from the eye downward then out to give a sort of "I don't care" look, but don't forget to make it sort of curve up because eyelashes were meant to keep things out of the eye from above. The lower eyelashes should be slightly shorter.
5. When you draw the eyeballs you can make her look like she's looking up, down, left, right, straight out of the picture, or surprised depending on her position and how you draw the eyes. In this case she's looking straight forward at you. For the left eye's pupil draw a downward curve like this: . For the right pupil draw an almost enclosed circle like this: The eyebrows are arched.
6.For the nose it should be closer to the left eye because you are drawing her facing a little to the left. Draw a little downward curve to the left and then a downward curve to the right creating a sort of acute angle like this:
7. The mouth starts right under the nose (for this view of the person.) The mouth has the two points at the top so you draw a sort of M. The bottom part of the bottom lip is just a curve. Drawing the ear is like drawing a backwards c. Make sure it's connected to the face.
8. You can draw the neck however you like as long as it's closer to the right side of the jaw. For me, I personally start drawing the bangs or the front part of the hair. Use a lighter shade so you would end up with volume to the hair i think.
10. Next, create the outline of the hair for which you will work off of later.

11. Make sure you draw all the light shades before moving on to darker shades if you do this on the computer because you wouldn't want to go back or it would usually ruin the hair.
12. The darker parts of the hair would be the parts that are behind another section of the hair or the top where the line that separates the hair is. You can shade the eyes however you chose.

From there, I completed the figure. I'm not going into that here.