The central part of our face is the nose. It cannot be ignored when drawing a portrait. Although it is not very remarkable and complex, unfortunately, not many people can draw it. Therefore, we have dedicated a separate lesson to explore this issue in more detail. Let's get started.

The visible part of the nose, called the external nose, consists of the root, dorsum, apex and wings. The basis of the external nose is made up of the nasal bones - the frontal process of the maxilla, the lateral cartilage and the large pterygoid cartilage of the nose, covered with muscles that are designed to compress the nasal openings and pull down the wings of the nose. Although the outer nose is covered with the same skin as the face, due to the abundance of sebaceous glands, the skin in this place is thick and inactive.

This lesson will clearly demonstrate how to draw a person’s nose with a pencil step by step.

Tools and materials:

1. White sheet of paper;
2. Simple pencil;
3. Eraser;
4. Colored pencils;
5. Black pen.

Stages of work:

1. We outline the height and width of the nose with lines.

2. Now let's draw three circles - one will be in the center (the largest one), and the other two will be on the sides (the wings of the nose)

3. Let's draw the middle of the nose and its thickening. Here the width of the nose will be individual, but we will use the average size.

4. Use an eraser to remove the auxiliary lines; we won’t need them anymore, and draw the main lines a little stronger.

5. Draw with a beige pencil the entire surface and circumference of the nose. This color will be the base color (flesh color).

6. To make the drawing look more picturesque, let’s draw it in yellow and pink shades.

7. A standard gray pencil will add shadows, making the nose appear more voluminous.

8. Now highlight the darkest places with black (increase the contrast).

Learned basic knowledge about how to build a nose. Of course, when drawing portraits, you will see that everyone has a different nose, but it is worth remembering the method of creating it. If necessary, you can always come back here. Continue to learn with us how to draw a nose with a pencil step by step? and share your successes in the group.

A special part of drawing is the nose, which is often overlooked by portrait artists. Although this shouldn't happen! If your nose doesn't work out at all, then the whole portrait will suffer. Therefore, we will learn to draw a nose!

Three images of a nose

The image in front of you is a regular sketch of a nose.

The nose has completely simple shapes: both lines running along the entire length of the nose, a rounded ball that indicates the type of nostrils and nose.

This drawing indicates the initial sketch of the nose, with shadows applied to it.

Here is a completely finished illustration of the nose.

In this figure the sketch is no longer visible. Here you can notice that the features of the nose are no longer filled with sharp lines, but with shadow.

The illustration above indicates the structure of the nose using red lines. To adjust the appearance of the nose, we raise and lower our red lines.

Below in blue color shows how you can draw a shadow that will be located directly under the end of the nose.

Occasionally the shadow will be heavier and sometimes a little lighter and softer, but most of the time when lit it will be exactly as shown.

Of course, it is clear that there cannot be much shadow on the side of the nose or on the side of the bridge of the nose, which is more illuminated.

In order to avoid making the mistake that beginners most often make, you should not highlight the entire contour of the nose on both sides. This is not beneficial because the outline makes the portrait look completely unrealistic. So it’s better to draw the outline of the nose using shadows.

When you draw or shade around the nose, try to apply less pressure on the pen or hand, because... they require light pressure. These three areas are shown in the figure.

In the event that you are drawing a theme that does not contain many sharp shadow transitions on the face, then you should not draw these features too much. In normal cases, you can simply shade it slightly. For example, as shown above.

1) The area marked in blue has an almost invisible shadow and shows the nose from the side.

Here the area near the edge of the eye and the area where the invisible “ball” sign is located near the nose are shaded.

Typically where the highlighted side of the nose is, few portraits allow for a little more shading, but not much anyway. When shading, special attention should be paid to the bridge of the nose. In order to ensure the proper illusion of size and depth of the nose, it is usually necessary to shade and highlight the details of the nose in the area dark side, as shown on the left side of this figure.

2) A further area, when working with which you need to press lightly when drawing - the “smile line” highlighted in the image green. This line is usually called the nasolabial fold.

On this image you can see a slight smile effect. Imperceptibly downwards, the strokes first weaken and then completely disappear. There are types of faces in which the “smile line” is much darker and longer.

3) On the surface of the skin, on the upper lip, from the area of ​​the line located in the middle, a labial groove emanates, which joins the protrusion of the upper lip. In the figure, the groove is indicated in red and is also applied with light strokes.

Also you can't get around special attention white areas near the nose, which are shown in the picture above.

As the highlighted image aptly points out, the areas near where the nostrils begin are not delineated in many cases. The pattern will look much rougher if you highlight the entire base of the nose (under the nostrils).

Let's pay attention to the area on the side of the nose, located between the beginning of the “smile line” and the nostrils. You don't have to place the "smile lines" directly next to the nostril. Some people have a gap between the nostrils and the “smile line.”

Pay attention to this nuance when you begin to depict the area near the nose. In this picture, the space is slightly increased. By paying attention to the various typical characteristics of faces, you will notice this space.

This figure shows the nose at an angle, located in the projection?.

If our portrait, instead of the front view, is depicted in a projection?, then the nose is also in the same projection, and that means it will look at a slight angle.

In the picture you can notice a purple line that is located in the very center of the face.

To the left of the purple line is a section of the nose sketched with red lines.
On the other side of this line there is a blue shading that indicates the nostril areas. IN in this case, the nose is drawn turned, and does not look symmetrical on any side at all.

The green color indicates that the edge of the nostril lives approximately on the same line as the corner of the inside of the eye. Likewise, when viewed from the front, they will be located on the same line.

I used an orange line to indicate how the edge of the nostril should be drawn in relation to the center of the mouth.

Although different people various shapes nose or mouth, they are mainly depicted in this way. The girl depicted in the picture does not have a very large or very wide nose, however, we will apply the “line method” to her.

Those who are just starting to master drawing techniques depict their noses as too narrow. To achieve a successful nose width, pay special attention to this.

Look at the purple nose. This indicates how far away it is from the face. Don't be afraid to draw it. Feel free to experiment with your nose, but don't change its length too much.

Keep in mind that if the noses you draw are the same length, they will look completely unrealistic. Since people different faces, then their noses should be different. Depict them as closely as possible to the original.

The proportions of your nose must be respected.

As you can see from the two red and two purple lines above, the length is not that much greater than the width.

Not everyone has the same size. However, some of the artists draw the nose either too long or very short. Mainly, your portrait should be realistic.

Draw a nose with a pencil, step by step:

1) First, draw a sketch of the nose. The lines on the sides of the nose should not be darkened. One side is usually shaded more than the other.

2) Now you need to shade the base of the nose and its side that lives in the shadow. Mark the nostrils in the drawing. Next you need to shade the nostril that is in the shadow.

3) Finish shading the nose. Using soft shading, we highlight the areas of the roundness of the nostrils and the area of ​​the “ball” of the nose.

If you decide to draw a person’s face, it is important, first of all, to correctly draw the person’s eyes, but not only. There are no “little things” in a person’s portrait. All facial features must be drawn accurately and beautifully, and for this you need to be able to draw the nose correctly. In this lesson you will be able draw a person's nose step by step. Nose drawing done with a simple pencil.

1. Let's start drawing the nose with simple markings

Every person has a nose unique features, therefore, it is impossible to give precise advice on how to draw the nose of a girl, child or man. You can only make an abstract, or as they say, “academic” drawing of the nose. This is exactly the version of the nose that I suggest you draw. I hope there is no need to explain how to mark these intersecting lines.

2. Contours of the “wings” and bridge of the nose

The human nose consists of “wings” and the bridge of the nose, and it is these contours that need to be drawn in this step. The width of the “wing” in my drawing is equal to almost half of the vertical line. You need to draw the nose carefully and accurately follow its “mirror” proportions.

3. The nose takes on a real shape

After precise preliminary markings, drawing the nose will no longer be difficult. You can see for yourself that it’s already quite easy to draw further. Outline the streamlined shapes of the wings of the nose. Draw two lines from the bridge of the nose and draw the tip of the nose.

4. The nose drawing is almost finished

At this step, remove the extra contour lines with an eraser, and you will see a drawing of a very ordinary academic nose; all that remains is to draw a few small details. Be prepared to have to adjust the final shape of your nose several times. Drawing a nose is not difficult, but the slightest inaccuracy leads to noticeable caricature distortion. And sometimes the nose becomes “plump” like Santa Claus or thin and skinny like Baba Yaga.

5. How to make your nose drawing voluminous

This stage of drawing and the next one will consist of only one thing. You need to apply shadows with a soft, simple pencil so that the nose looks voluminous, like in a painting by real artists.

6. How to draw a person’s nose with a pencil

If you are drawing a portrait of a person, then you are probably interested in knowing when is it better to draw the nose, at the beginning of the drawing or at the end? Usually, when drawing a nose at the end of a lesson, the nose turns out to be distorted, too wide or narrow, disproportionately small, or, on the contrary, large. Most likely, this is due to the fact that you are simply tired by the end of the lesson. In a portrait of a person, the eyes and nose are considered the most important elements of the drawing, so it is better to start the drawing with them. But first you need to make general markings. Agree, you can fix your chin, ears and even lips, but if you didn’t “get it right” with the nose and eyes, the person’s portrait will not be similar.

Video on how to draw a person in profile.

Learning to draw a portrait of a person, eyes, nose, lips of a person, even with a simple pencil, requires not only time to study art school, but also talent. The difficulty of drawing a portrait of a person lies in the ability to convey the emotional state of a person, his facial expressions, the depth of his gaze, etc.

It is this element of the portrait that needs to be given the most attention. It is also important to draw the nose and lips correctly, since they reflect the main features of a person’s face. In this lesson you can learn how to draw eyes in detail.

When drawing a person, you should see the entire future image from the expected lines and all you have to do is draw the main ones. Notice how the caricatures are drawn. There is not a single exact feature of a person, but, nevertheless, the drawing bears a strong resemblance to the character in the caricature. Very often, to do this, it is enough to accurately draw only the nose, eyes and lips correctly.

If you decide to draw a person’s face, it is important, first of all, to accurately and correctly draw the person’s nose and eyes. The eyes convey his mood, character, and emotions in the drawing. To achieve similarity in a person's portrait, it is important to accurately draw the nose. But eyes and lips are the most important elements of facial design.

To draw eyes correctly, it is best to draw them in stages. The nose and lips in anime style are drawn only conditionally, without drawing details.

First examine your hand carefully, pay attention to the length of the fingers and the proportions of the hand. You can even outline the outline of the hand itself if you are going to draw it at life size.

To correctly draw a person’s head, you need to know its proportions.

The head has an oval shape, which is divided by the eye line into two approximately equal parts, that is, the eye line is located approximately in the middle of the face.

Drawing a face is quite difficult. Conventionally, it can be divided into three parts: from the beginning of the hair to the eyebrow line, from the eyebrow line to the end of the nose and from the end of the nose to the chin.

The upper edge of the ear is located at the level of the eyebrows, the lower - at the level of the base of the nose. The eye line can be divided into five identical parts, of which the second and fourth are occupied by the eyes.

The width of the nose is equal to the length of the eyes, and the mouth is slightly wider than the nose.

The distance between the eyes is equal to the width of the eyes or the width of the base of the nose. The ears are located from the line of the eyebrows to the line of the base of the nose, the cut of the mouth is one third of the distance from the base of the nose to the end of the chin.

The head is symmetrical, and you can draw it on the basis of a conventional line that starts at the back of the head, runs in the middle of the forehead between the eyes, along the nose, in the middle of the mouth and chin. This line is called median and serves to construct paired symmetrical forms.

Knowing these proportions will help a novice artist in working on a portrait.

Head shapes come in different types.

Now look at how to sketch different facial expressions on a person.

Drawing of the head begins with the construction of its ovoid shape, while it must be remembered that the shape of the head must be outlined so that its horizontal middle passes just above the middle of the sheet and so that the head is not too shifted to the right or left. Only after this the parts of the face are outlined. They need to be studied very carefully: the similarity of the portrait to nature depends on this.

The main parts of the face include the eyes, nose, lips and ears. Of course, each person has their own unique eyes, nose and lips. But this only seems, in fact they can be generalized and their form simplified.

The human head is drawn in full face(when he looks straight)

in profile (with the head turned sideways),

and half a turn.

Drawing the eyes

Eyes play a very important role in the resemblance of a portrait to life. You can start drawing an eye with its generalized shape - a ball inserted into a horizontally located oval (eye socket). Therefore, when starting to draw the eyes, you need to outline the eye sockets, while remembering that they are not located very close to the nose. The distance between the eyes is equal to the length of the eye itself. Next, having outlined the pupil, we begin to draw the eyelids.

R When drawing the profile, you need to remember that the upper eyelid is pushed forward a little more than the lower one. And the pupil turns from round into a flattened oval.

When drawing the face in half a turn, notice how the upper eyelid of the eye rises.

The authenticity of the portrait depends on the greater or lesser intensification of the shadows, and not on the direction of the strokes, so first of all you need to try to place the shadows correctly and engage in shading only when the skills have already been acquired.

Draw a line passing through the eye, carefully observing its direction. Find the length of the eye, which is indicated by two vertical lines. Draw the contours of the eye, remembering that the front convexity or roundness of the eye is visible in eyes drawn in profile or half-turn.

Drawing lips

Before you start drawing the lips, you need to mark the midline of the mouth (this is the line where the upper lip meets the lower), then determine the length and thickness of the lips on this line (usually the lower lip is thicker than the upper, but sometimes they are equal in thickness ). You also need to remember that the mouth is below the base of the nose. Next, you need to start outlining the outlines of the lips, trying to convey their characteristic shape (thin, thick, medium, even along the contour or with a curve on the upper lip).

When drawing lips in profile or in half a turn, you need to outline the size of the mouth section, its slope, as well as the degree of thickness (that is, protrusion of one of the lips).

The mouth opening is located one third of the distance from the base of the nose to the end of the chin.

We draw mouths from the front and in profile. First, draw a line crossing the mouth, then determine the length of this line with two lines,

Then we find the middle of the mouth and mark it with a line parallel to the lines indicating the length of the mouth.

Then we will designate the thickness of the lips and designate the teeth if the mouth is slightly open.

Drawing the nose

When drawing a nose, you must first carefully study its characteristic features: noses can be straight (1), snub (2) and with a hump (3).

Also, noses can be long, short, narrow and wide. The base of the nose is equal to the width of the eye. When outlining the nose, you need to remember that the middle of the facial line of the nose passes through the middle of its base and tip.

When drawing a profile or half-turn, we must not forget that the stronger the turn of the head, the further the tip of the nose is from the midline.

Now let's try to draw the mouth and nose together.

Now we draw the nose and eye.

Drawing ears

The ears are usually located at a level from the eyebrows to the base of the nose. In order to correctly outline the ears, you need to draw an imaginary axis of the ear, which runs parallel to the line of the nose. Next, outline the general shape of the ear and draw the details.

Draw an oblong quadrilateral and divide it crosswise into two equal parts. Trace the outer circumference of the ear, then outline its thickness and draw the middle (ear cavity).

Drawing hair

The hair beautifully frames the head and starts midway from the eye line to the crown (the top point of the head). All hairstyles can be reduced to the most typical.

Drawing the neck

The neck is a support for the head and is firmly supported by the shoulders. Before you start drawing, you need to determine the height of the neck and its relationship to the height and width of the head. First, mark the midline of the neck, running from the lower part of the jaw to the cervical cavity. The neck itself consists of three conventional figures: a rectangle and two triangles.

A simple diagram will help you quickly and easily draw a nose, eyes, lips in a matter of minutes!

Many beginning artists, when drawing something, rely on their “eye” and the accuracy of the lines. But, in practice, they are faced with the problem that the drawing begins to “move”, despite the fact that it “seems” to have correctly shown the bend of a particular line.

And where do you start drawing a nose?

Off the line? Or are you looking for a simple geometric shape?

Here is the simplest diagram, which is the easiest way to start drawing a nose

There is a back, sides and a bottom plane. Then everything becomes much easier! Draw wings, nostrils; add the characteristics of a specific person and you're done!

If a rotation or angle is needed, accordingly, change the direction of the entire figure and then complete the details

And so with every detail of the face - you generalize, finding the simplest form; clarify, breathe life!

Read more... How to draw a nose, ears, eyes, lips, hair

look at my upcoming speeches on the Internet, which will take place:

September 18 at 20.00 at the Academy of Painting online we will draw noses from different angles; if we have time, we will touch on the “ears”;

September 19 at 19.00 on the Masaa project (entrance to the webinar room) we will study eye drawing schemes; Let's work on creating an expressive, lively look;

September 20 at 21.00 on the project “Secrets of the Masters” (register) - you will find out How to convey the volume, structure, liveliness of hair in male and female portraits.

September 21 at 20.00 - I will conduct my online Master Class, where we will “assemble all the puzzles” and work on the image as a whole. In addition, I will make an ANNOUNCEMENT of training programs at the School of Portrait!

For all Master Classes you will need:

a) sample photographs:

save it to your computer and print it in A4 format, b/w

b) materials:

• on the first online MK - pencil, charcoal ( charcoal pencil), album sheets and erasers;
• on the second online MK - you can also use coal (pencil); for the more “advanced” - let’s paint with a dry brush: oil paint “gas soot”, fluted bristle brush No. 35-50; watercolor paper, erasers, napkins;
• on the third online MK - we use the same materials as on the previous two.

Once you have a simple algorithm, you can always “build” a nose, lips, eyes, etc.:

• any complexity;
• from any photograph;
• regardless of lighting, rotation and angle

Put yourself a “reminder” in your phone, computer and

get ready to take part in the live broadcast

at Master Classes: September 18, 19, 20 and 21!