How to Draw Unique Faces
The beauty and originality of unique faces in art is what separates novice work of boring characters into engaging and defining characteristics. All of the most popular cartoon characters of all-time were successful because of their unique face. The artist found a way to exemplify a certain trait or characteristic, as well as create the emotion and mood by the facial expression.
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Instructions
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Bring your imagination to paper. If you want to create a character from scratch, chances are you already have a picture of that character into your head. So now the trick is conveying your thoughts or imagination onto paper. If you are just starting out with art, you will more than likely have a difficult time drawing realistic body types and facial features. Whichever gender you select, study full-body shots of that gender. What traits or body parts stand out? What's special about the body? Practice sketching full body types. Sketch a skinny body, followed by a medium build, and lastly an obese body type. The only way you can improve your drawing is by practicing at least one hour a day.
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Lay out the Face. Now that you have a firm idea on the body type you can assume how the face will look. Cartoon artists thrive off crafting character's faces that over-exaggerate one type of body part. Take a blank piece of sketching paper and softly outline the face with your pencil. Draw light so you can erase a number of times. Draw the basic facial outline. Then decide on what facial feature you want to exaggerate. Often the exaggeration will be based on the character's internal quality. For example, if your character is nosy, draw a big nose.
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Draw the Ears. After the basic outline is drawn, begin work on the ears. As with any facial feature, ears come in all shapes and sizes. If you want to really focus on the ears, make them big and pointing. Draw them so they stick straight up, as if to suggest a state of listening or attention to detail.
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Draw the Eyes. On a human body, the eyes are almost directly horizontal to the top of the ear. Utilize a ruler and make sure they line up closely to the top of ear lobe. Eyes are extremely important when conveying emotion. They are hard to master and require lots of practice. Eyes looking sheepishly down at the ground can mean so much more than eyes looking directly up or straight forward. Draw each eyes outline and try to get both outlines as close as possible. Having even eyes will really distinguish your drawing. Finish the eyes with eye ball. If you are adding color later on, you must decide on a color for the eyes.
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Draw the Nose. Noses can range from simple and subtle to obnoxious and hideous. If you want to make your character attractive, chances are you will stick to a small and straight nose. However if you want to make your character hideous or ugly, draw a long, crooked nose that takes up a decent portion of the face.
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Draw the Mouth. The mouth is composed of the lips and teeth, as well as the surrounding facial features such as cheeks or dimples. The mouth conveys a lot of emotion based on its position. For example a frown is resembled by a downward curve of the lips, while a smile represents an upward curve. You also need to decide if the character in the drawing will show his or her teeth. If so, you have several options when composing teeth.
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Final Draft. After a rough draft is finished, the artist must step back and examine his character. Does the character resemble what you originally thought up in your head? If not, are you satisfied? Is it acceptable? If not, grab another piece of paper and sketch another rough draft. The beauty of art is the painting or drawing is not released until it matches the artist strict approval. Once you reach an acceptable rough draft. Either retrace or re-draw the face onto a fine piece of paper. If you are sticking to a close up then your work is finished. If you want to add the face to a full body, then you will need your rough draft of the body type to compliment the rough draft of the face.
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Tips & Warnings
Never remain satisfied with one draft. Keep drawing a wide assortment of different faces with distinguished physical features.
