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Drawing Heads and Faces: Cheekbones

I’ve found that drawing the head starts to make a lot more sense once you start thinking about cheekbones and cheeks, and how the fit into the head structure.

You might be aware of the Mysterious Indent that Looks Good Next to the Outer Part of the Eye, or the Mystery Indent for short. 

Drawing a Mystery Indent may serve you fine if you only draw the head from flat angles, but it falls apart when you get adventurous.

Why isn’t this making sense anymore?

Drawing a ‘Mystery Indent’ is an attempt to imply cheekbones without knowing how they actually incorporate into the skull, and this is why it looks so unconvincing when you use it to draw the head in anything other than ¾ view.

The cheekbones wrap around the head and eye sockets from above the bridge of the nose.  The concave you draw if you draw the ‘Mystery Indent’ is a misunderstanding.  There is no concave.  You should instead be thinking of this as where the eye socket/brow overlaps the (convex!) cheekbone.

Compare the cheekbones on both sides for placement.  They should match up and correspond with each other.

(Knowing cheekbone structure helps when drawing gaunt characters, because their cheekbones may stick out.  Remember to compare the cheekbone placement on both sides!)

* This is part of a much larger tutorial I’m working on about head, face, and facial feature structure.  Hopefully more to come eventually?

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Answers from the community!!

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i’m gonna drop an art tip here

i think an important thing to learn, especially if you start out with drawing anime, is that faces don’t necessarily have to narrow from top to bottom

i like to think of wide top, wide middle, wide bottom, and rectangle-like as the 4 main face shapes

what you should keep in mind about them:

you’re only halfway done: the jawlines, the width-length ratio, the amount of fat in the cheeks, the intensity or subtlety of the face’s curves are all important components you still have to decide on after choosing the shape itself

none of these shapes are exclusively feminine or masculine, don’t hesitate drawing them on any gender

most people in real life have some variation of the wide middle type

if you are trying to draw real people, getting the shape of their face down is the first step

i’ve seen tutorials say the shape of the face can tell a lot of the character’s personality - you don’t necessarily have to live by that rule. as long as you aren’t unrealistically drastic about their proportions, their face shape determines their inner qualities as much as it would in real life (not at all)

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Late last year I wanted to start a series of short tutorials called Tip Jar, as a way of saying thanks to my fans and giving back to my patrons. This is the first of the series I have made, showing my technique on quickly filling in lineart so you can get to painting without coloring outside the lines faster. 

Someday I hope to turn these into video tutorials when I have the income and the time, but for now I hope that I will be able to share useful tips in this infographic format.

Full tutorial image

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An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.

Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)

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Inspiration can be found everywhere! #Love it!

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So it appears that Autodesk did a thing.

Go nuts, my friends.

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Gift by Zezhou Chen

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Things I wish I knew when I started drawing

My experiences with traditional art have been challenging to say the least, mostly because I didn’t really *get* some of the more obvious tips and tricks. Some of it was definitely jealousy of people with tablets, though. If someone had reminded me about a couple of these things, I wouldn’t have gotten frustrated enough to give up on art for a year. Hopefully they can help prevent others from doing the same. 

It can take a painfully long time to learn new or unfamiliar techniques. If they don’t come naturally, your intuition isn’t going to help you. 

The time it takes to draw something decreases drastically once you really start practicing it. Ever heard of ‘muscle memory’? It’s real. Your hands have it. Even after just a couple tries, you’ll be surprised at how much easier it gets. 

Don’t force yourself to try and copy someone else’s style, or learn a bunch of complicated techniques. It’s time consuming and will end up costing you more in the long run. 

Adding more lines isn’t going to make it look better. It’s good to trace the outline of what you have in mind before filling it in, but adding a bunch of dark lines in close proximity to each other just makes it look messier. 

Avoid sketching and making lineart with a dark pencil. The easiest pencils to find in a school store are almost definitely HB pencils, which are a middle ground. You’ll have better luck erasing those extra lines if you use a(n) H pencil (2H, 4H, H). 

WAIT UNTIL YOUR INK DRIES BEFORE YOU START TO COLOR OR ERASE ANYTHING. Inking is a delicate process and one wrong move can distort how your drawing looks overall. Wait a good 1-2 minutes before checking with a piece of paper or fingernail to see if it’s finished drying.

Unless it’s a really special marker, don’t color using a light marker over a dark marker. A mark will stay on the tip of your marker and stain everything you try to draw with it afterwards.

STOP COMPARING YOUR ART TO STUFF OTHER PEOPLE DRAW! When you look at some of the fantastic artwork online, it can feel intimidating. What you need to remember, is that you’re seeing the finished product of what was a long process of trials and errors leading up to a culmination of the artist’s strongest efforts. 

And, last but not least, the tools don’t make the artist or the art. YOU, the artist, are the one with the vision to achieve a final result. Even if you don’t have that fancy white marker that shows up on top of black, you can still demonstrate good technique and a sense of style. 

Thanks for coming to my TED talk! Now get out there and go make something beautiful!

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Reblog to save a life

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Art by IG: @cameronmarkart Instagram: @artwoonz

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How to draw anything.

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For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it

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i saw a post on my dash with image sites that basically was like “it’s okay to use pictures off pinterest etc. for your edits because it’ll be hard for the original photographer to find and sue you,” which, um, made me a bit annoyed, so here is a list of 100% free stock photo sites, many of which have quite aesthetic-y photos! please do not steal photos in your work, guys!

freeimages

pixabay

pexels

publicdomainarchive

gratisography

picography

stocksnap.io

unsplash

everystockphoto

morguefile

flickr commons

deviantart’s resources section (check creators’ pages for specific terms of use)

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tinydrawing

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A big eye opening (and learning experience) was when I took a portrait painting class. It really taught me how important it is to know where the planes of the face are. Not just for painting BUT for drawing too. It helps you anchor the facial features down.

Not only that…it makes your paintings/drawings more realistic and now a days with so much of your 2d art being turned into 3d films…it’s knowledge you must have.