TUTORIAL // drawing masculine faces (Patreon)

Hey lovely patrons! Have you recovered from the holidays yet? It’s time for this month’s tutorial, and it is about drawing masculine faces! I got a lot of requests for this one, and this is something I struggled with for a long time as someone who was more comfortable drawing feminine faces. Hopefully the techniques used in this tutorial will help you out as they did for me!

As always, I’m using the MaCaLabs HB pencil brush for the sketching process.

There are also a few other tutorials that touch on similar topics to this one:

• Constructing faces & expressions: this one goes into more depth on how I construct heads in general. It talks about which basic shapes/lines I use, and how I place the features onto that. It’s a good starting point if you felt like this tutorial didn’t elaborate on construction as much as you would have liked! 

• Creating vibrant skintones: this one talks about how I use color variation on the skin to create more vibrancy in the face, and how I blend highlights and shadows into the skintones. 

• Sculpting with color: this tutorial talks about how I lay down my basic color scheme and then use that as a starting point to ‘sculpt’ the details in. I use this technique in the masculine faces tutorial but don’t talk a lot about how I do it, so if you felt like that went by too fast, watch this tutorial! 

Hope you found this useful and as always, let me know if you have any questions after watching!