How to Draw a Maiden's Face

Video Transcript

"Alright so we have our knight but in this next couple of clips we're going to learn how to draw maybe the object of his quest or his battle and now we're going to learn how to draw one of the fair maidens from that time. So we'll start with her face; getting out your fine tipped pen and we're going to move up to this portion of the page, and in this case we'll be staring again with the eyes and what I will; well not again, I guess with the last one we didn't start with the eyes but in this one we will. What we're going to do is again try and follow sort of the same rough idea that I introduced to you when I had you draw the other guy; I mean we're going to want to make them look fairly, we want them to look real and more real than cartoony but we don't want them to look; I don't know the more detail you add then more, the more likely it is that it's not going to come off looking believable. So just kind of be careful what kind of detail you add; I'm going to get start to her eyes here, we want our maiden to be beautiful and unlike our soldier they're not; there's isn't going to be very much about her that's rigid or dirty. So we'll draw her face here as we continue on down we're going to; one of the harder things to do about drawing a woman is to get their face looking exactly the way you want it to, it's not easy at all especially with the lips for some reason; really take your time and draw I would say start with the upper lip, and work your way down from there. And the best way to kind of get a really get a good lip definition is do what I just did; you draw the upper lip and color that one in, don't really color in the bottom too much; it, it separates them and it helps you especially in a black and white drawing really see the difference between them. And then what we'll do I guess is just come on down the side of her face; again take your time, you do not really want to rush this part because this; I mean honestly you can completely screw up your entire drawing right here if you get her face wrong. You do not want to have to start over; I mean there's nothing wrong with starting over and don't get me wrong it's not like I'm saying don't feel, don't feel like you can't make mistakes but try your best to not make mistakes. I'd say it should be the goal that everybody to try their best to not make mistakes when they're drawing a character like this; try and nail it if you can the first time. So what I've done here is I'm kind of drawing the outline of her face because it's; in a second we're going to go onto the next clip and learn how to draw her hair and a large part of what we end up doing with her face will like, her hair will sort of dictate that a bit. So I would say at this point if you got the rough outline for her face done; I would say well move on now to the next clip where we learn how to draw her hair, alright so let's move on."