Pencil drawing.

I been drawing those anime girls with big wet eyes, Voldemort noses and small little round mouths, I think mean "I am cute, that's why I'm stupid and always look confused with a mouth that says: ooh!" I got a little annoyed and thought that it must be possible to draw those roundheaded anime girls with a real mouth and not a snake nose, but a human one. Did it work? What do you think? It's my oc Sophia😂. (Sophia means wisdom, I was thinking about that I was trying to make her look not stupid.) And it's still only pencils! I had to find my crappy colour pencils. I use watercolors on my other blog, but it's supposed to be pencils only here.

I tried to make a tutorial for ¾-profile. I wasn't decided how I would do it while I was drawing. To write the instructions here or on little notes in the pictures. I decided to take pictures for both, but when I was finished I didn't have pictures enough to neither. I post what I got. I started to make a new one, but this should have been up Sunday, so I don't have time. Use it as best you can. I'll do a better one some other time. Yeah, you should probably watch the pic's one at the time, so you see the whole picture.

Credit should go to Chommang, in who's payed membership class on YouTube I learnt how to draw faces like this. I advice everyone who are interested in pencil drawing to check him out.

I drew a boy today and gave him a little anime/manga-style, but not to much. Just for a little variation. I like it though. Saw now on the photo that I didn't erase all pencil marks, but I leave it. It was a good pic anyway. Tomorrow there is a ¾-profile tutorial, if you are interested.

As promised, a front face drawing, done with the sketch method I showed in my attempt to do a tutorial. I wish I could redo it, but I'm posting one on ¾-profile on Sunday. I just have to remember to do the things differently then, that I would liked to change in the one I've done.

The drawing. It's cold and she is making sure that the zipper is all the way up. I like how the hand turned out. Hands and feet are my mortal enemies.

I drew a new pfp. I thought it was a little weird with a digitally drawn pfp on a blog about traditional drawing. It's actually a portrait of a friend of mine, we kind of did it together, that's why it's a little different from my usual drawings.

I hope some people will like todays post. The coming days I'm going to draw a couple of finished semirealistic faces from this view. Every Sunday I'll post a new tutorial with a new face angle. Next Sunday will be side face, and then I'm going to draw a couple of side face drawings. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to do 9 or twelve different face angles. I'm also going to end each week with how the eyes, mouth and nose look from that angle.

I think this is going to be a fun and engaging way for me to keep to my practice, and if I'm lucky, someone might want to practice with me.

TUTORIAL, BASIC FRONT FACE, LEVEL VIEW.

1. Draw a circle. Put a point in the middle.

2. Divide the circle with a vertical line. Draw a horizontal line downward from the middle point.

3. You have 3 lines from the middle point. Divide each with a mark on the middle. Divide the outer half in 2 equal parts. Put a mark for the chin a quarter lines length outside the circle. Cut off the outer quarters of the circle with a line, to start getting a headshape.

4. Start forming the face by drawing slightly inwards slanting lines from the middle. When you meet the edge of the circle, connect the line with the chin mark. Shape top of the head.

5. Place a circle for the nose between the middle line and the chin. Draw mouth between nose and chin. Draw a short line under the mouth. Draw a horizontal line a little bit above the nose. Draw the eyesockets between the lines.

6. Draw the ears between the top in line with the upper eyesockets, the tip in line with the nose. Draw 2 lines to form the neck. Connect the neck with the place the shoulders should be, with 2 curved lines. Draw collarbones.

7. Divide the eyesockets. Draw the eyes upper lines and the iris. Draw nostrils under the nose circle. Add eyebrows.

8. Add the hairline between top of the head and eyebrow line. Erase support lines. Smooth all lines and curves.

BASIC FACE FINISHED. ADD FEATURES, CORRECT AFTER STYLE & CHARACTER.

This week I'm starting really from scratch. I'm going to do one face angle each week starting today with front face, level view. I threw together a face just to accompany this text, but this is how I plan to do it. I post every second day, or three times a week. In the first post I draw a basic face, with the method I think is the best method to draw faces. I take pictures while I'm drawing and post it like a 6 step tutorial with a few lines of explaining text with each picture. The result will be a basic face on wich to base a facedrawing. The next two posts will be proper facedrawings done with the method I choose. I will go through each of the 12 basic face angles, starting with front face, side profile, ¾ profile 1 and ¾ profile 2 from level view, then I do the same angles but from low view etc. So after 12 weeks I should have gone through all basic face angles giving each a weeks practice. If I'm lucky maybe someone will practice with me.

Ok, we start with this angle: front face, level view. Tomorrow I will post a kind of tutorial on how to draw this.

I'm taking a step back and starting with the basics again. I wasn't all the way through basic facedrawing, you're supposed to do 4 lessons on each angle, but I decided that "I know this now." when I did 2 from each angle. I noticed that I didn't know it as good as I thought, so I'm going back and do the stuff I skipped the last time. This is supposed to be "¾ profile slightly from below." I'm not really happy with it. The right eye should be lower and the chin a little higher, since you see it from below. I will probably do this over and over today, until it's perfect. Tomorrow I'll probably do anatomy or figure drawing.

I have to do a new pinned post. I thought that posting every day would be a good way to make sure that I do my daily drawing practice, but it's actually the other way around! Posting a drawing every day keeps me from practicing properly. Most of the practice isn't nice facedrawings. It can be two pages of eyes from different angles, or noses or lips. The face drawings will have to be something I reward myself with when I have been doing my exercises as I should for a couple of days.

So, less posting and probably higher quality on the posts I do. Now I stress through my exercises and my drawings I'm going to post to be able to have time for both. The result is not very good for either.

So, this is Sundays drawing. I'm posting it 30 minutes to late, cause I was looking at Twin Paranormal and forgot the time. They are so silly Wyatt and those twins😂. Todays drawing, I was using a harder pencil than I'm used to, so the circle for the head and eyesocket are still visible. I couldn't erase them. I usually use a B2 for that, but had to use HB. I always did that before, but I gotten used to sketching with soft pencils, so I press to hard when I use harder pencils.

This is how far I am in reality in my drawing course. The basic face drawing has 36 lessons. You learn to draw the face from 4 angles: front, side and two ¾-views. One looking slightly to the side and one where the nose tip touches the sidelines of the face and part of the furthest away eye is hidden by the nose. Each angle is taught from three perspectives: seen from above or face looking down, seen from below or face looking up and seen from eyelevel and looking straight ahead. Each variant have one lesson teaching the method and differences in measures and support lines, plus two practice lessons. I could hardly believe it. It just touches the basis (but complete basis) of face drawing and it's 36 lessons. There are the anatomy part to, that's as many lessons as you have time to do. I'm focusing on faces first, because I want to be able to tell stories about human relations, and faces, their expressions and contact with each other are so important in such stories. Ok, enough ranting, here is the result of a quarter of lesson twelve:

I did a quick, quick-sketch today. I think I like her. It's not a piece, but the lines I did kind of got in the places I wanted them to be in the first attempt, so after I did the basic placement of the facial features I just had to fill out the eyes, nose and mouth and the drawing was finished. I have to come up with a good way to draw hair thats not dark. ¾ of the worlds population are people of colour that does have dark hair, but there are also that last quarter, and it's hard to draw blond hair. Either it becomes blocks of hair that doesn't look natural or like here, stripes, flat, with no texture. I will have to look in my books.

I have a drawing today that I kind of like, but it's impossible to take a decent photo with my phone. I wish I had a scanner. I think I'm going to set up my desktop computer. I'm so lazy, it's just been lying in boxes for months since my last move. I could scan the drawings at the library, email it to my home computer and upload from that. Ok, the pic:

Thank you to everyone who got me to 250 likes!

@sahcoraaa tipped me over the edge, so I name you first, then it's of course "the awesome eight", @insufferablewhore and my favorite fellow mental case @waldo-n-mitchel . Thank you all, and the rest of my mutuals (just 25 in total) but it is to many to write every nick here. 🫶

I don't know what to say today. I didn't know what to draw. This is what I managed. Maybe I should take a week off? I think I'm developing backwards.