How to Draw a Knight's Face

Series Summary

Fantasy sketches look simple but draw from the same artistic traditions as painting and figure drawing. Drawing is a visual art which makes use of any number of instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, markers, stylus, and various metals. An artist or animator traditionally sketches pictures out roughly in pencil before going over them in black ink or giving them to a colorist. Remember, the disposable villain is not only a former indie rock band from Detroit, but also a favorite stock character in fantasy art: many fairy tales have a villain who loses to the hero anew each episode. In this free drawing video series, professional cartoonist Danny Page teaches the aspiring artist how to draw knights and maidens. The fair damsel and the armored knight are popular subjects of fantasy illustration, and Page gives many tips for drawing both. He covers the knight's face, armor, shield and body, including tips on what to draw first and how to design clothes. Page also adds a beautiful maiden to the drawing, teaching viewers how to draw a realistic face, chest, lower body and limbs.

Video Transcript

"Alright folks in this clip we are going to be drawing a face inside our helmet here. So again we are just going to take our thin tipped pen and we'll just start with the eyebrows actually. Normally in my series I start with the eyes but for this one we will do the eyebrows first simply because, I don't know, it just seems best to start from the top and work our way down. So we'll draw your soldiers eyebrows in there like that and what I recommend doing. We are going to be doing fairly life like sketches in this series, we're not going to be going really cartoon with it, give him a line for the top of his eyes and then get in there and just kind of give him a little bit of a black charcoal eye pupil. It saves you the trouble of going into a lot of detail but it definitely, I don't know, it looks more real and not so cartoony. Obviously his entire nose is covered by this piece here protecting his face and that thing will honestly come down right about to where his lip would be. So you are drawing his lip in here like so, the lower part of his lip and now we are going to give him facial hair too. So we are going to come in here and draw side portions of his mustache and come down here and give him a chin. And now if you want to complete the look I think it would be smart to give our soldier a nice bearded look. Just go in there and give him a design for his beard and don't worry about his nose, that's already taken care of. Come up here and connect it maybe, give him that little fester and make it scraggly enough so it doesn't just look like he just stepped out of GQ magazine. He's a knight after all and he's seen some action and that really ought to do it. I mean at this point you could I suppose go and kind of draw a little black around the edges just to make it so that we could see a little bit of the helmet definition in there. It is not really that necessary. That is looking pretty good at this point. We have got his eyes, his eyebrows. We have got all the makings of a knight right in there, not too bad at all. Alright so we have got his face and now what we will do is we will just kind of work our way down his body and draw the rest of it. So let's move on to the next clip."