ART/VIDEO – Some Tips on Drawing and Designing Faces

Drawing faces can be tricky.  Especially if you’re trying to draw something that looks naturalistic.

Last week I posted a video I made with four tips to help you improve your character designs. This week is a part 2 of sorts.  I wasn’t able to get to the head in the last video.

This video is about applying the same four tips to drawing the head.

Any link I talk about in the video I link to can be found below the video:

Other Youtube Videos to Watch

How to Draw Realistic Style Manga Characters, Like Street Fighter, Soul Caliber and Golgo 13:

Recommended Books

Bridgman’s Complete Guide to Drawing from Life

Heads, Features and Faces (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

Drawing Lesson Links:

• Stick figures, with style! Basic design
• Design Simple Cartoon Characters from Flat Shapes
• Making Your Cartoons Look Professional – Cartooning Design
• Monkey Style Draw Fu – Copying

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ART/VIDEO – Four Tips that will Help You Improve Your Character Designs

Sometimes you draw something and you know that you can improve it but you just don’t know how.

This happens a lot to everyone.  Part of the reason is because you’re just too close to the drawing and you might need some time away.

Other times it’s because you lack the knowledge.  You don’t know what you don’t know, so it’s difficult to go find out what it is you need to look up to find the answer.

This is where someone who knows a bit more comes in handy.  They can point you in the direction you need to go.

I’m doing exactly that for someone in the video week.  I was asked if I could help a fellow artist improve her character design.  I offered to draw over her drawing and she graciously gave me permission to share it with you.

In the video, I offer four tips to keep in mind when approaching a character design. Any links I talk about in the video are posted below:

Other Youtube Videos to Watch

How to Draw Realistic Style Manga Characters, Like Street Fighter, Soul Caliber and Golgo 13:

Drawing Lesson Links:

• Stick figures, with style! Basic design
• Design Simple Cartoon Characters from Flat Shapes
• Making Your Cartoons Look Professional – Cartooning Design
• Monkey Style Draw Fu – Copying

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If you liked this video and would like me to discuss something you think I might know about…

If you want to ask me a question about drawing that you might be struggling with…

If you want to suggest a character or drawing you’d like me to draw (even your D&D character)…

…feel free to ask or suggest away, either here on my comments or anywhere else you’d like to contact me.

Just be aware that my Patreon patrons get their questions answered first and they get to see the videos weeks before anyone else.

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ART/VIDEO Looking at Design & Silhouette in J. Scott Campbell, Joe Mad, and Adam Warren’s Art

Video looking through some of artists I’m a big fan of, J. Scott Campbell, Joe Madureira, and Adam Warren.  Specifically focusing on the way they use shape and design.

We look at the silhouettes their designs make so that we can better understand how design informs style.

Links I talk about in the video below are posted below the video:

Link and Notes From the Video

Books
The Skillful Huntsman: Visual Development of a Grimm Tale at Art Center College of Design

Youtube Playlist

• Art Style and Design Playlist

Drawing Lesson Links:

• Stick figures, with style! Basic design
• Design Simple Cartoon Characters from Flat Shapes
• Making Your Cartoons Look Professional – Cartooning Design
• Monkey Style Draw Fu – Copying

Want To Get a Video From Me?

If you liked this video and would like me to discuss something you think I might know about…

If you want to ask me a question about drawing that you might be struggling with…

If you want to suggest a character or drawing you’d like me to draw (even your D&D character)…

…feel free to ask or suggest away, either here on my comments or anywhere else you’d like to contact me.

Just be aware that my Patreon patrons get their questions answered first and they get to see the videos weeks before anyone else.

If you want to be put up further up on the “queue,” feel free to become a patron at ANY level. It’s one of the many rewards you will receive for becoming a patron.

And I’d greatly appreciate it.

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ART/VIDEOS –  How to Draw Realistic Style Manga Characters, Like Street Fighter, Soul Caliber and Golgo 13

Have you even wanted to draw in a realistic style Takuji Kawano, (Tekken/Soul Caliber) Alvin Lee (Street Fighter) Takao Saito (Golgo 13), and even Joe Madureira (Battle Chasers) and didn’t know where to begin?  This video shows you how to you can learn to do so.

I love the drawing styles mentioned above. They’re so awesome. I wanted to know how to do it too. Then I discovered that I was already studying how to do so without even knowing it.  I was already studying the right people and doing what I need to do.

I explain more in the video below.  Also, I provided links to many things I mention below the video:

Recommended Books

Bridgman’s Complete Guide to Drawing from Life

Heads, Features and Faces (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

Videos on Style and Design

• Developing a Unique Drawing Style
• Drawing Style and Character Design Pointers
• Style Vs. Versatility in Art. Which to Pursue?

Style and Design Posts

• Stick figures, with style! Basic design
• Design Simple Cartoon Characters from Flat Shapes
• Making Your Cartoons Look Professional – Cartooning Design
• Monkey Style Draw Fu – Copying

Want To Get a Video From Me?

If you liked this video and would like me to discuss something you think I might know about…

If you want to ask me a question about drawing that you might be struggling with…

If you want to suggest a character or drawing you’d like me to draw (even your D&D character)…

…feel free to ask or suggest away, either here on my comments or anywhere else you’d like to contact me.

Just be aware that my Patreon patrons get their questions answered first and they get to see the videos weeks before anyone else.

If you want to be put up further up on the “queue,” feel free to become a patron at ANY level. It’s one of the many rewards you will receive for becoming a patron.

And I’d greatly appreciate it.

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