From the translator: It was quite difficult for me to translate the text word for word from one language to another while maintaining the consonance of the speech; after all, I am not a translator, therefore, I took some liberties in the construction of phrases and the selection of synonyms to make the lesson more digestible and understandable. But main meaning, of course, has not changed. If you want to read the original, there is a link to the page with the lesson below.
The main tools for digital painting in Photoshop are:
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Drawing the base
I always start with the face, using a large, round, very soft brush. Here are my three standard base colors for leather:
The red color on the skin will appear later: the natural color of the skin also has a red tone, but to add it, I use a separate layer with a darker red color and the “ Soft Light" (Soft light).
Basic brush settings
To draw the basic shapes, I use a large soft brush (Lighting brush, 300 px by Dan LuVisi). Exactly the same as shown in the screenshot. I start drawing with Opacity(Opacity) 100% very bright color.
Once the base shape is painted in, I scale it down Opacity(Opacity) to 5-20% , A Flow(press) until 20% and I draw dark color shadows that I chose for the skin. Low opacity and pressure allow for very smooth transitions from one color to another.
It takes me a few minutes to create a basic form of a girl's profile. All parts of the face are drawn, but now they are quite simplified and abstract. Now the face looks slightly dark, but I use very bright colors only at the end of the drawing.
At this stage of the painting, I'm still using the same soft brush, but with a smaller radius.
Now make the drawing smaller
It is very important to periodically look at your work from afar. Never work all the time 200% increase! You can put a light on your nose when 200% magnification and calculate that “ everything looks great“, but when you zoom out the picture, it turns out that everything together looks just terrible, because the lighting of the nose does not match the lighting of the picture as a whole.
Brilliant eyes
Never forget about the reflexes in your eyes. The eyes are naturally moist and shiny (glossy), and therefore we need to draw a few reflexes on them to make them look realistic.
The iris pattern can be drawn using a tool (Finger Tool).
Brows
To draw eyebrows, I use a tool (Finger Tool). IN Photoshop CS4 you can rotate your workspace. It's easier for me to draw from top to bottom, so I rotate the drawing in a way that is more convenient for me.
Here are my settings for the finger tool when drawing eyebrows:
- Hard brush(Hard brush) with 3 px radius;
- Threshold(Threshold): 95 - 98% ;
- Brush properties:active; Size-Jitter(Size fluctuation) 0% - Pen Pressure(Pen pressure).
Let's put a little red on...
It's time to add some red to your skin. For this I will use a separate layer with the setting " Soft light" (Soft light). Now just add some dark red tone like what I used:
Drawing hair
To start, I draw the basic shape of the hair on a new layer. There is nothing simpler... :-)
Use your finger!
The second step in this difficult process is to spread the hair beyond the basic shape. Once again I'm using the brush created by Dan LuVisi. You can view all of his brushes at: //adonihs.deviantart.com/art/My-Brush-Pack-118954791. I used a hair brush while smearing with the Finger Tool. And this is what happened to me.
Shadows
Don't forget to put a shadow between your scalp and your hair, otherwise you'll never achieve realism!
First I drew shadows on the skin brown, and in the darkest places I used black. In general, I do not recommend using only black eyeshadow, as this will make your skin look dirty.
Hair detailing
What brush did I use in this screenshot? Right! Hair brush Dana LuVisi :-)
True, with minor changes different from the original. My brush settings for Offset(Shift) changed to 1% and I draw with it with low values Opacity/Flow(Opacity/Pressure). Well, of course, now we use the tool (), and not the finger, since we need to draw details and not smudge.
Fine hairs
As you can see in this picture, I'm using a very thin brush to paint the hair (and I'm painting on a new layer!). We just take the regular one tough(hard) brush with any dark color close to the hair color and paint with it. I usually use hard brush(hard brush) in 3 px with fairly high values Opacity(Opacity) and Flow(Press).
Let's use blur!
The hair that I drew a little earlier is now quite blurry in this drawing. In order to achieve this result, you need to select (Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur). I also used an eraser to slightly erase some parts of the fine hairs, as I think it looks more realistic this way. The brush I used for the eraser was large and soft with opacity 30% and pressing 30% (big, soft eraser with 30% opacity, 20% flow).
Now let's brighten them up!
Now I create a new layer to highlight the strands with white using a hard standard brush with opacity 80% , pressing 50% and radius 3 px (hard standard brush with 80% opacity, 50% flow and 3 px radius). This may take quite some time...
Use white color throughout your hair! Once you're done, take a big soft eraser with 30% opacity and set the opacity to 30% , for example, and erase what you drew from the darkest areas. But not completely!
Final shine
The last step will make your hair look absolutely gorgeous. I learned this trick completely by accident. I was just lucky. A few months ago I was painting a portrait and chose the wrong tool, but the result was much better than I expected and the hair looked much more realistic.
Once you are done drawing the hair, merge all the resulting hair layers into one. But don't forget to save before doing this.
Now let's select the Tool () and select the Texture layer brush Dana LuVisi(we will also use this brush to paint the pores on the girl's skin, but a little later). Set the approximate brush size to 130 px and don't set the level high enough Exposure(Exhibitions). The result will look something like the picture.
Drawing skin
In order to draw realistic skin, you need to add some pores to the base. And again we use brushes Dana.
This time - Texture brush(Texture brush). I usually use a radius of 130 px, but this depends solely on the size of your work (my standard work is 100 x 80 cm - 150 dpi).
Create two new layers above the face/body layer and use the texture brush white on one layer and dark/brown on the second. Just cover everything with a lot of dots as you see in the picture.
Why keep pores on a separate layer? Because it will be better for us. Let's assume that we wanted to correct something on our face, let's say, make it darker. We will not darken even the dots. It will look simply terrible! :-)
Now go through the eraser in the same way as we did when erasing thin hairs of curls. Use a large, soft brush with medium opacity and pressure. Wash until you are satisfied with the result and the skin looks realistic. You can also try using the blending mode settings for the layer with pores, for example, (Soft Light) or (Overlay).
Now we need to create extra large pores and moles on the skin. Again, on a new layer, draw large dots different sizes. Once you think there are enough dots, erase them again! :-)
If you compare this image to the previous one, you will notice small light spots on it that make the skin look realistic.
The face is finished.
Introducing new elements
If I just draw a picture of a girl, it won't be as interesting. So I decided to add a few elements that would make my work personal and interesting. I wanted to add a hand that would hold something, but at that moment I didn't know what exactly I wanted to see. I thought for a long time about Wibisono's magnificent works and decided to draw the most believable one. So, I decided to depict a fan and add some Asian/Japanese influences.
I started studying materials on Japan and decided to settle on cherry blossom. I had to work with a lot of layers, so it wasn't difficult for me to change the color of certain elements of the fan. For such operations, I usually use (Image - Adjustments - Hue / Saturation / “Ctrl + U” keys).
Well, now it's time to do a little work on the foreground.
Cloth
The clothes... Let's say this is something like a kimono that I painted in several layers. First I created an abstract shape with shadows and light. Then I used the Smudge Tool
Light
In order to give the work brightness and dynamism, I need to add light. Below are images of my next steps in working with the light. First I made the outline of the hair brighter. For this, I used a large soft brush, slightly larger than standard, on a new layer, along with the “ soft light"(the soft light filter). Next I created several rays of light. To do this, I took a hard brush and painted a few large dots, and then went through the menu Filter - Blur - Motion Blur () and changed the layer blending mode to (Overlay).;
And you start drawing flowers on paper with a pencil. You could draw something serious. But how? Who knows? There is a lot of time, and the material is at hand, but the necessary knowledge is not there. Why not learn how to draw a portrait?
The most common technique
How to draw a portrait? Artists different eras practiced image techniques human face, and some have achieved unprecedented mastery. Our task is to find out the basic principles in order to learn how to draw a portrait with a pencil. This is not to say that it is that difficult. But if you don’t know the basics, nothing will work anyway.
Let's start work
Technological progress has even affected art. Today, many artists use mechanical pencils rather than regular pencils. This ensures greater accuracy of work. These pencils do not require sharpening. Small details take less time to complete. With their help, it is easier to draw a portrait step by step. So, if you have the opportunity, use a pencil like this.
Copy from photographs
Usually portraits are drawn from photographs. This method is more convenient. You don’t have to ask the sitter not to move and sit still for hours. So, let's start studying photography. We are interested in the position of the head in comparison with the horizontal and vertical lines. Even a novice artist is recommended to have knowledge of the structure of the human skull. It will be useful to refer to any anatomical atlas. According to the shape of the head of the person you are drawing, draw faint lines on a sheet of paper, depicting the silhouette of the hair and the circumference of the face. Draw additional lines in the area of the eyes and eyebrows, nose and mouth.
When the drawing of the general lines is completed, we begin to disassemble the face area. We determine the height of the nose as a plane. You can even apply shading to create volume in this part of the face. If they draw a person in a half-turn, then it is necessary to designate the area of the near cheekbone, the plane of the lips and eyes, and do not forget about the eyebrows. This stage is not drawing smooth lines, but dividing the human face into precise geometric figures. This makes it easier to understand how to draw a portrait. Let's move on to detailing the face.
Professional artists often use a “nag,” a type of eraser. If you erase lines with it, there will be no visible marks left on the paper. Did you manage to get the “nag”? We recommend using it in drawing. So, we run it along the surface of the sheet to remove the top layer of what was drawn. This way we remove the auxiliary lines completely, and make the main strokes almost invisible. Now we draw out all the elements of the face, round them where necessary, and give the drawing a resemblance to the photo. It is known that many artists measure the size of parts of the face, their ratio, in order to achieve maximum identity with nature.
It's time to apply the shading. Before you begin, you should make sure that all structures are completed and additional lines are erased. Because if you start laying down the tones, you won't be able to remove the unnecessary strokes neatly. As you can see, during the lesson on the topic “How to learn to draw portraits with a pencil?” we learned many different nuances. Basically, general rules no shading. Each artist has his own way. It all depends on the way you hold the pencil. But it’s better to start shading those places where the shadow is darkest. These will be used as guidelines. They will help to avoid strong darkening of the skin, clothes or eyes.
Let's move on to performing halftones. What is this? We give tone to the face, hair and parts of clothing. It would be nice to make the clothes black. Then she would perfectly shade the face and put emphasis on it. We apply the shading so carefully so as not to smear anything. After finishing the work, our portrait is 90% ready. The only problem is that it doesn't look voluminous. To fix this, we move on to the most enjoyable stage of the work - highlighting. Like this? We'll highlight some parts of the face. The “nag” will again help us with this. This will give the drawing life and naturalness. All that remains is to darken the depths. Then you can clean it. We darken folds, small wrinkles, some strands of hair. Our drawing becomes three-dimensional. So we figured out how to draw a portrait.
The easiest way
Not all of us have natural talent as an artist. Most people find it difficult to learn lessons on the topic “How to draw a portrait with a pencil?” A clear sequence of actions is required here. This is exactly what we will determine now. So now we are drawing a portrait for beginners. First, we draw the outline of the face being depicted. It is important not to press on the pencil, because not everyone succeeds the first time, and erasing irregular thick lines will be difficult. Try to draw only an oval face. When it is ready, draw additional horizontal lines for the eyes, nose and mouth. They should be light and hardly noticeable. Also, don't forget about the ears.
The main part of the face are the eyes; they need to be emphasized and drawn as believably as possible. Pay extra attention to the image of the pupils, the line of the mouth and the initial contours of the hair. Then we begin to carefully draw out each element. When everything is ready, we remove additional lines and add shadows to give the picture volume. Now your first drawing is ready. Maybe not a masterpiece. But the main thing is that it was executed independently.
Basic mistakes
It is impossible to draw a perfect portrait on the first try. No matter how closely you follow the prescribed advice, something will still go wrong. How to avoid the most common mistakes when learning how to draw a portrait? First, you should check your pencil. It shouldn't be too hard. Otherwise, you will not be able to apply shading and halftones. The lines will be too light. Secondly, never draw portraits from photographs onto documents. A human face turned strictly from the front is difficult to depict even for a skilled artist. Moreover, people always look unnatural on documents, and it will not be possible to draw a good portrait from such photos.
Many people have difficulty conveying the correct proportions of facial features and symmetry. When applying shading, don't be afraid of black. It is vital as it shades lighter areas and reflects natural shadow. Don't neglect the volume of the drawing. The reason is simple. Everything natural has volume. In addition, it is necessary to remember that in nature there are no objects that have a clear outline. Use lines with different tones. Don't work with cheap paper. Its surface is too smooth. It pushes away the lead and the lines are too thin and light.
Types of portraits
We are accustomed to thinking that a portrait is an image of a human face. Is it so? In nature there are different types portraits, namely: head, chest, waist, knee and full height. Each of them has its own nuances. But before you learn how to draw portraits, you need to study human anatomy. Otherwise, you will not be able to correctly convey all the proportions of the body. Who needs a distorted drawing?
Work to order
By learning how to draw portraits with a pencil step by step, you can make good money from this. IN Lately many people want to have their own image made in classic style or in the form of a cartoon. Family portraits are also very popular, so the knowledge gained and time spent will not be wasted.
Conclusion
Having passed this lesson, you can make your dream come true. But after practicing the lesson on the topic “How to learn to draw portraits,” you shouldn’t stop. The acquired skills can be multiplied. They will help in the image general portraits a whole group of people. And not only! You can start drawing a self-portrait.
Photography is, of course, good. But the drawing has great value. It’s as if the human soul appears on it. This gift, especially to someone close to you, is sure to please.
This tutorial shows the stages of drawing a quick sketch portrait. To draw this portrait, you need to know at least the very basics of shading.
Step 1. First you need to draw a sketch, for this we draw the outline of the head and neck, draw auxiliary lines indicating the direction of the face, the location of the eyes, nose and lips of the girl. The image size is very large, so click on the image and look at the details.
Step 2. Let's roughly understand the perspective. In this stage we draw the eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips and chin. Then we erase all the auxiliary elements.
Step 3. I begin to work in volumes, adjusting the construct as I go. Draw the eyes, apply shadows.
Step 4. We begin to do shading from dark places, smoothly moving towards the illuminated ones.
Step 5. While applying the stroke, I try not to shade it, because the shade often looks like dirty spots. Add dark shadows and move on to drawing the neck.
Step 6. I correct the anatomy with volumes, making it more human. We finish drawing the neck, begin to shade the shoulder and jacket, then move on to the hair.
Step 7. At the end, highlights are added, the perspective is checked again, and details are added.
As you know, depicting people is one of the most difficult areas in art. In order to beautifully draw the figure of a man, woman or child, a novice artist needs to have not only certain professional skills, but also knowledge of anatomy, and also be able to maintain proportions. Portrait created using a simple pencil, is one of the most romantic gifts you can make with your own hands. Surely each of us, at least in our dreams, thought about how to draw a portrait from a photograph. Don’t be ashamed of your inexperience; try to draw with a pencil, because even those portrait painters who are taking their first steps in creativity can do it.
Beginning of work
Before you start drawing a portrait, you should study the photograph, what position the head of the depicted person occupies, how it is rotated relative to the vertical and horizontal. Be sure to pay due attention proportional relationships(sizes, as well as relative position) eyes, nose, ears and mouth. Precise adherence to proportions when applying the first strokes is an important guarantee of the final image’s resemblance to the face in the photograph. Familiarize yourself with the average proportions of a human face presented in the figure, and then compare them with the original image in the photograph. If they diverge a little, there is nothing to worry about, since it is in deviations from the standard that the individuality of a living person captured with a camera lies.
To get more detailed information about the structural features of the human skull that may be needed when depicting a portrait, you can always refer to the anatomical atlas. Apply with light lines general outline oval of the face, hair, lip line, nose, eyes and eyebrows.
After this, you can begin analyzing the planes of the face. At this stage, you should mark the height of the nose with a plane. In order to better see the volume, it can be shaded. This should be done with all areas of the future portrait that are in the shadow. Next, we designate the plane of the lips, the cheekbone, located closer to us, as well as the plane of the eyes, which connects to the eyebrows. At this stage of creating a portrait, it is quite easy to outline the geometric features inherent in the face of the person being depicted, without even drawing it with smooth lines.
Detailing the face
Remove the top layer of the pencil using a scratch eraser until the previously drawn lines become almost invisible. After this, we begin to draw all the facial features. We round them to give the portrait maximum resemblance to the photograph.
It's no secret that eyes are often called the mirror of a person's soul - they are very expressive. Therefore, there is no need to prove the importance of accurately conveying their location and shape. In order for eyes drawn on paper to look more alive, the sclera (the so-called white part of the eye) does not need to be depicted as snow-white, since in fact its color changes under the influence of its own shadow and the shadow that the eyelid casts on it. Apply highlights to the lower eyelid and inner corner of the eye.
The picture below shows the sphericity of the eye and how the eyelids rest on the eyes. Here, a novice artist can familiarize himself with the sequence of depicting eyes in a portrait, starting with highlighting illuminated and shaded areas (2 and 3) and ending with applying highlights and shadows. It should be noted that women and men have different age categories the eyes are different. For example, women tend to have longer and thicker eyelashes, and eyebrows that are thinner and more clearly defined than men.
The mouth is not very expressive compared to the eyes. It is the lips that are the place of transition of the mucous membrane to the skin. This is the reason for their characteristic pink color. When depicting lips in a portrait, you should remember that they are the most movable element on the face, capable of taking one form or another. The upper lip is usually thinner than the lower lip.
Many people, when drawing a portrait from a photograph, are faced with the problem of depicting the nose, which looks completely different from different points of view. The main task is to be able to convey the main contrast of shadow and light on the nose, so that the drawing does not become overloaded with unnecessary elements. Usually, but not in all cases, the maximum light falls on the tip of the nose and the bridge of the nose, and the thickest shadow falls on the base of the nostrils (picture).
As for the ears, their shape varies greatly among different people, but does not have pronounced characteristics among representatives of the stronger and fairer sex. Despite the fact that in photographs the ears are often hidden by the hairstyle, professional artists recommend not neglecting them, in particular their most expressive and precise position on the sides of the head. The length of the ear in adults is approximately equal to the length of the nose (see figure). Children's ears are proportionally slightly larger.
Hatching, elaboration of halftones as important stages of drawing a portrait
Upon completion of work on the detailing of the face, we begin to begin shading. First you have to erase everything extra lines, available on the portrait, since after the start of laying out the tone there will no longer be an opportunity to do this with sufficient accuracy. There are no specific rules for shading - everyone does what is most convenient for him. Professional artists advise starting shading from the darkest parts of the portrait. In the future, you can build on them so as not to darken your clothes, eyes, or skin too much.
When adding tone to the skin of the face, clothes and hair, you should not use a nag (unless, of course, you accidentally put a stain on the future portrait). If you are right-handed, then intensive shading of halftones should begin from the upper left corner of the sheet, in order to avoid smearing what has already been depicted. Accordingly, a left-hander needs to do everything in a mirror manner. At this stage, minor elaboration of the background is allowed.
Highlighting and darkening are the last stages of working on a portrait from a photograph.
At the end of the shading, if you did everything correctly, you will get an almost finished portrait, which, however, will not look three-dimensional. To correct this defect, it is necessary to highlight some places on the face, such as the tip of the nose, eyebrow ridges, top part cheekbone, sclera of the eyes, lower lip and sometimes chin. Using a nag, the artist can draw small folds on the lips and wrinkles, as a result of which the portrait will become more alive. Hair lightening should be done in areas of the largest fractures. This will make them appear shiny and more realistic.
After highlighting, we proceed to the final stage - darkening those areas where we need to demonstrate the space. Such places can be the ears, the edge of the hair, the background, the folds on the hair. After this, the portrait will be almost ready. However, in any case, you will be left with unnecessary strokes, stains from fingers stained with a pencil. Therefore it follows last time pick up a nag and eliminate everything that visually seems unnecessary to you.
After reading this article, you should not take it as a ready-made guide to how to draw a portrait of a person from a photograph. After all, even with the maximum similarity of the resulting portrait to a photograph, we always have room for creativity. When redrawing, you are not at all obliged to copy exactly everything that you do not want to see in the portrait. In front of you Blank sheet, ready to implement all your ideas. As you know, photography does not always turn out successful according to all criteria. Well, an artist, working on a portrait, can think out, adjust and get as a result something that turned out to be beyond his capabilities due to the specifics creative process, photographer.
Hello, dear friends!
Today we will draw a person's face. Many people mistakenly believe that only select talents can draw. This is not true: anyone who has the desire and patience can learn to draw correctly. Knowing the basic proportions and rules of construction will help you correctly depict a person’s face. Read the following material and try to draw a face step by step.
Axes and proportions
When drawing a person's face, it is imperative to study and constantly draw centerlines easily.
With experience, you can get by with one or two guides, or without them at all. You don’t need to think that axes are boring and uninteresting; they will help you quickly and correctly build a face with the correct proportions, identical eyes, and symmetrical parts.
In the future, visually imagining these axes, you will be able to work with human facial expressions and emotions. After all, to show sadness, you need to lower your eyebrows and corners of your mouth, close your eyes, and for this you need to imagine at what level all these parts of the face are in a state of calm.
Eye line
The first and main axes that you definitely need to remember are:
The eye line of all adults is in the middle of the head.
Axis of symmetry and eyes
Divide the oval of the head into two equal parts horizontally - this is where the eyes will be located. We also outline a vertical line of symmetry.
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At first it’s difficult to do this by eye, so check yourself by measuring identical sections using a pencil or ruler.
Eyebrow line nose hair
Next you need divide the oval of the head with horizontal lines into three and a half parts. The upper axis is hair growth, in the middle is the level of the eyebrows, below is the axis of the base of the nose. The distance from the hair to the eyebrows is equal to the height of the forehead. Essentially, the face (if you don't take into account the hair) consists of three equal parts that are equal to the height of the forehead.
Line of mouth and lips
Next we will designate the lips. To do this, the lower part of the face (from the nose to the tip of the chin) needs to be divided in half - this way we will find the line of the edge of the lower lip. To determine the level of the mouth cut, you will have to divide the segment from the lower lip to the nose into four more equal parts. The first quarter will be the line of the mouth.
Mouth and lips
The mouth section of most people is at the same level, but the sizes of the upper and lower lips are completely different.
Drawing human ears
Where to place the ears
No matter how strange it may be, very often, with a more or less successful face structure, the ears are not attached at all in the place where they should be located. Therefore, we will pay special attention to the ears.
Placing the ears correctly
At the top, the ears are attached to the axis of the eyes, and at the bottom at the level of the base of the nose. They can be large or small, stand out strongly or lie close to the head, but for all people they are attached to the line of the nose and eyes.
How to place your eyes correctly
How to find out the width of the eyes and the distance between them? To do this, the eye line needs to be divided into 8 equal parts.
Outlining the eyes
- Another eye (2/8) should be placed between the eyes.
- Each eye is 2/8 wide.
- From the outer corners of the eyes to the contour of the head, leave 1/8 (the width of half the eye).
These are rough guidelines. These proportions differ slightly for different people. It is not necessary to divide the axis into 8 parts every time, just check yourself.
Drawing a fish
Also read the article on how to draw eyes realistically and correctly.
Make sure that your eyes are not too close to each other, or, conversely, too far away. These settings will help control the size of the eyes so that they are not excessively large or small. The inner corners of the eyes should always be in line with the eyes.
At first glance, all these lines are cumbersome and difficult, but first you can practice drawing a face, taking into account only the horizontal axes. As you work, you will have questions and you yourself will come to the conclusion that you also need vertical guides. With the acquisition of a little experience and skill, you can easily draw faces without preliminary markings and axes.
Eyes, nose wings, mouth
The inner corners of the eyes are at the level of the wings of the nose. The corners of the mouth are level with the center of the eye, or the pupil if the person is looking straight. 
This photo shows with light lines that:
- the corners of the eyes lie on the same level as the wings of the nose
- and the center of the eyes lies in line with the corners of the mouth
Drawing a person's face in profile
Face drawing scheme
Actually, if you outline all the guides, then you should end up with a diagram like this. You can print it out as a sample, since it is difficult to remember everything at once and practice drawing a person’s face with the correct proportions.
Schematic representation of a person's face
Later, you will be able to give faces features of specific people and draw portraits of everyone you are interested in.
With this we will finish with axes, proportions and guides and start drawing.
Drawing step by step
Today we will not draw a portrait of a specific person, but will learn to create quick sketches with the correct proportions and placement of all the main parts.
Drawing a face is a skill that improves with experience. If you have never drawn portraits of people, it is important to first simply learn at the level of mechanics and repetition how and at what level to place the eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows, ears, and the relationship between them. To do this, look at the diagram in the previous section and easily apply the guides.
How to draw bright lips
Repetition is the mother of learning :)
We designate the form
The first stage is the simplest, we need to designate the shape of the face; it is easiest to fit it into an oval, ovoid or other round shape. The vertical axis will help create a symmetrical pattern, the horizontal axis will help show the eyes correctly.
Outlining the main elements of the face
All previously outlined lines will help us build our face. These axes need to be applied very lightly, barely noticeable, so that later you can easily and unnoticeably erase them. 
It doesn’t really matter where exactly you start drawing facial features, the main thing is that you don’t get stuck and concentrate on one thing: nose, eyes, lips, eyebrows.
At first quickly and easily define all parts of the face without going into detail without trying to be too precise. We apply all the lines very lightly, so that it is easy to correct.
If something turns out crooked or inaccurate, you can fix it at the next stage.
We specify the shapes and sizes
At this stage, we adjust the size and shape of the eyes, ears, eyebrows, nose, lips, and clarify the shape of the face. We correct everything that went wrong at the previous stage. 