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Introduction Face drawing is something that I have come to absolutely love, I'm going to say this again - absolutely love. BUTIt wasn't until I actually began to study the face in detail that I started to love portrait drawing. It's not that hard once you know the proportions of the face, but the problem is, that in my experience, many teachers are not well versed in face drawing proportions or how to construct a head, and advise you to draw by seeing only. I'm going to demystify the head here for you and give you a system for portrait. | Face Drawing An Illustrated Guide for Success Introduction Face drawing is something that I have come to absolutely love I m going to say this again - absolutely love. wasn t until I actually began to study the face in detail that I started to love portrait drawing. It s not that hard once you know the proportions of the face but the problem is that in my experience many teachers are not well versed in face drawing proportions or how to construct a head and advise you to draw by seeing only. I m going to demystify the head here for you and give you a system for portrait drawing that is both simple and easy to learn. We are all so familiar with looking at other people s faces that even if someone is not a trained artist they can spot Step 1 problems with your face drawing in an instant. If you have ever drawn a portrait and looked at it for a while thinking It s good but something just isn t right and I can t quite put my finger on what it is - that is our own familiarity with the human face telling you that something is amiss. When I began portraits I had the same problem and I imagine that many other people are faced with this same problem of your face drawing looking alright but something just doesn t seem correct. I am willing to guess that your problem lies in the proportions or where the different parts of the face -the eyes nose mouth and ears are placed on your face in relation to the head and each other. Let s get right into it now and start dissecting the human head on our first lesson towards becoming a better portrait artist. Sharpen your pencils - Let s begin To start your face drawing draw a circle. It doesn t need to be a perfect circle but the closer you can get to a perfect circle the easier it will be to start. I suggest using a large coin a cup a CD or some other circular object to trace from. One thing to note here is to draw very lightly. We are creating the basic form of the head and these beginning lines will be erased later once we .