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Drawing: Faces & Features
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Drawing: Faces & Features

by Debra Kaufman Yaun
January 2006
Beginner
32 pages
2h 49m
English
Walter Foster
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Portraying Children’s Features

Children are fascinating drawing subjects, but they can be a challenge to draw accurately. It’s important to get the right proportions for the particular age (see pages 20–21 for more on children’s proportions) and to correctly render their features: Their eyes tend to be bigger and more rounded than those of adults, their nostrils are barely visible, and their hair is usually fine and wispy.

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STEP 1 With a sharpened 2B pencil, I sketch the basic shape of the face. Using my knowledge of children’s proportions as a guide, I lightly draw the guidelines, which curve slightly because of the viewpoint. I place the features ...

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