Drawspace lesson H14: How to draw a child's face

Hi all.

We are moving on to Lesson H14 and it's going to be interesting. The idea of this lesson is to draw familiar objects upside down. To be exact, it's about drawing a child's face upside down.

As for me, the idea is lovely. You get to learn to look on familiar objects as if for the first time and get to train your eyes all over again. I actually added this exercise to my future "How to develop creativity" series that will begin soon.

But in the meantime let's concentrate on the given kid. This is the sketch in his upside down position, before I turned it back.

It was a very interesting experience. It was like drawing something for the first time. Like this was something I was unfamiliar with and got to know it for the first time.

And this is the final, shaded sketch.

I think it is a nice sketch. Obviously, it's not perfect, but it's not bad ether. I really hate the lips, they are way too large. But I do like how the hair came out and the eyes, although they look larger than they should be. The nose is under-shaded, but I'll leave it as is...

Have a great day,
Dalia

Drawspace lesson H13: How to draw people with straight lines?

Hi all,

Today I will be drawing people with straight lines. Lesson H13 suggests just that. The exercise is to do quick sketches in just several minutes. Preferably - no eraser. And the subject is a boy.

I've read this lesson several times feeling more and more intimidated. I really wanted to delay the doing of this lesson for later. And after going over the list of the whole H section and seeing the "Figure drawing basics" in the end of the list I said: "How is that possible?" And then I thought that maybe the idea is to make a first attempt ourselves before the actual explanation. After all, no matter how bad the sketch is, it allows the new artist to practice and come to conclusions by himself. Like someone said: First try yourself and then do a tutorial.

The challenge is to draw 5 sketches of humans every day for a month (the creation of a new habit).

So I took my HB pencil and started working. No erasers.
Here they are.

In the end I did only 4 sketches and to me - they all look more like Pinocchios. But as I drew, I managed to convince myself that these sketches are not to be accurate at all. The idea is to practice short and quick lines and develop my eye - hand connection.

After finishing these 4 sketches I decided to take a break form this lesson and move one to the next one. I really planned to continue and do 2 or three more sketches of the Pinocchio but I just couldn't help myself. Shame.

I'll have to get back to it later. This is one of this lessons.

Have a great day,
Dalia