hii! i hope you're doing well, i haven't seen you for a while here :( i was wondering how you started drawing faces? no matter how much i try to make the faces similar to bangtan it never works it just looks uneven and bad..
Hi lovelies! I apologize with how long I took to answer this, Im not the best at explaining myself but Ill try! Im going to try and get it all so Im sorry this will be long!!
My number one tip is to focus on relative proportions and use reference images, theres nothing wrong with drawing from sources!!
This is the way I generally start, looking at the outline of what I want to draw, almost treating tae as just a shape rather than a person, I use the cross on the face to one, judge the direction of the nose/ where he’s looking, and two judge the angle of the eyes
I find it easiest to avoid wonky looking faces by putting in basic markers (the bottom line of the eyebrow, the top lid of the eyes, and a circle where the end of the nose should be) I think I’ve mentioned in other tutorials but use features of the face to map out where everything goes (the corner of the lips should be a straight line below the centre of the eyes, generally the space between the eyes is the same length as the eye itself etc etc.)
Its my opinion that people struggle with getting the face right because they draw one area at a time, when really you should be focusing on drawing the entire face at once. while getting details exact is great, its more effective to draw the figure as a whole and master flattening 3d shapes into a 2d form
Now you should have a dollar store version of what you want, but the proportions are generally correct, just keep working it from there, its much easier to get the features looking the way you want when you’ve put them all in the right place to begin with
Don’t be afraid to use the transform tool if you feel like the angle isn’t right! Another thing I find helpful for gauging whether or not the proportions are looking good is keeping the navigator open! (that little red box in the corner)
Now about noses, its good to think of them as a few shapes stuck together, you can think of them like three circles but I prefer a large diamond in the centre and two small ovals
so start with a rough oval, i place little triangles at the bottom for the nostrils, and then depending on the persons nose, little c shapes that almost want to connect at the peak of the triangles
Using the diamond I find helps to get that real 3d shape, and when the nose is facing a different direction its easy to distort that shape.
Lastly, line weight!!
The best thing you can learn to make your faces feel like the person you’re drawing is looking at line weight! think of it like shading, you’re adding depth to places that in the original image might have been sunken in or underneath something without using colour
there are areas that you don’t really need a line, in this the corners of the eyes recede further back into the eye sockets, so I use darker lines to show that depth while the areas that ‘stick out’ or have little shadows theres almost no line
So I think thats everything, let me know if there is something anyone needs clarifying!
