How To Draw Real People

When drawing people, it’s essential that you get the right proportions and sizes. As a result, many books and courses on how to draw people, have detailed explanations of where the important proportions are.

The head is a great measuring tool, the head is classed as one unit. Realistic characters are six, seven or eight heads tall. Children tend to have big heads :) in comparison to the rest of their bodies, making them only four or five heads tall. (see diagram)

When people are asked to draw someone’s face, they seem to panic. Mainly people tend to panic because they think it will not look right, or maybe because they think it will be out of proportion. Even when someone can draw well, they think it is still very difficult for them to get someone’s face right. Really, it is not the persons face that is very hard to draw, it is much more difficult to produce a quality drawing, a drawing that actually looks like the person’s face that you are aiming to draw. It is easy to draw a face of any kind, but when it comes to drawing the face of a particular person, it becomes very hard.

When you are asked to draw a specific person, the picture of a nose that you have in your head, may be completely different to the nose of the person you are drawing. What you really need to do is forget that picture that is in your mind of the human nose, and draw what you see. This makes the drawing look more realistic. The same applies with the eyes, mouth, ears and face. Having a drawing tutorial for beginners is great and WILL help, it’s more than just a tutorial that’s needed. The secret is to have no preconceived ideas in your mind of what someone’s eyes, nose, ears and mouth look like, Simply draw what you SEE!

You definitely need a Step By Step Drawing People Course, but you need to lock the images you have in your head away and simply draw what’s in front of you. Obviously proportions play a large part when drawing people and drawing what you see is extremely important when trying to judge proportions.

Using your pencil, try and accurately gauge each measurement, ie distance between the eyes, height and width of the eyes, nose size, etc So all in all, the important factors with being able to draw people well, is getting the contours and shading exact, along with correct proportions and perspective. I hope this has helped guide you into becoming a better artist!

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