Summary: When drawing the nose on a face, the nose is constructed of several small half ovals in different directions. Learn how to draw a nose on a face with expert tips from an artist in this free drawing video.
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
"Now that we know where we're going to put the nose, right about here, let's draw it. So, for a nose you want to start by doing just so you get the right idea of where it is in the proportionality to the face, the bottom part so right about here. The bottom part of the nose is usually just a half oval. Then you put the sides of the nose. Those are going to be kind of like the same, half oval, coming out the side of it, like this. Ok, something like that. Nose holes come off the side of this. These are all kind of this half circle shape that we're working with here. It's going to be dark. Ok, so now we can add shade and that's going to be the basic shape of the nose right there. So it's going to be this."