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Nose Placement in a Face Drawing

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Summary: Placement of the nose in a face drawing can greatly affect the look of the drawing. Learn how to determine the nose placement with expert tips from an artist in this free drawing video.

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By Anna Greene-Smith
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Anna Greene-Smith is a freelance illustrator. She graduated from MassArt in Boston in 2006 and spent some time studying at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland. She is...read more

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"Alright, now the nose. We have to determine where that's going to be. So, let's look at the skull again. this is the nasal cavity. So, in proportion to where the eyeballs are, the nose is kind of, right in the middle. Eyeballs right here, right? This is the kind of, the soft part under the eye. It's still going in, coming up. To this bone, right here. And then the nose. Right there. So, let me look at the painting, the picture. This is about, the eyeball cavity. This part would be, where the light would be hitting. So this is going to be lighter. This going to shadow, here. The nose would be, this would be the nasal cavity, right here. Kind of, in the middle. And we don't, it's easy to make it too long, too short. This is also going to depend on the reference, we're using. The basic skull idea, would be kind of, take the eye tip it around. These are all just short cuts to make the drawing just a little easier. The downs going to be right about, here. O.k."

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