How to Draw a Profile Face Shape

Video Transcript

"Hi, I am David Clemen on behalf of Expert Village and today we're going to draw the face. Okay, now that we've done the front of the face like full on drawing of the front face. We are going to turn the head to the side for a profile. So, what I'm going to show you now is that we used an oval for the front of the face we're going to turn the head and it's actually two ovals. So, let me just show you an example of this. So, there's one oval and now basically you take the second oval and it comes like this. It kind of looks like alien right now but just bare with me and you'll see what I'm talking about. We'll be able to use the same line up marks that we did on just the one oval for the front face in relation to the profile. For example, if we go right in the middle of this oval again and then we split that again. This is where we will place our ear on the side of the head. Now on the forehead, we can soften this once we get our ovals drawn and the nose will have the bridge and the nose actually extends out because you have that piece of cartilage there. What happens, from the nose to the lip it actually is kind of sunken back a little bit and then you put the lips here. Then the bottom lip, even though it's larger, it sinks back as well. Then we come down to the chin then this extends out. Then once we soften this, we can soften this oval as well. We don't have to make it so exaggerated. The eyes actually set in here; once again the eyebrow is there. You have to imagine the eyeball being set in here but we have eyelids that cover that to make it not look so scary. Then you'll just see the iris there and the same goes with the eyelashes here. That's the profile."