TUTORIAL // drawing faces: common mistakes (Patreon)

It’s time for this month’s tutorial! It’s on drawing faces, and more specifically centers around 3 common mistakes that artists make. I broke it down into three main mistakes, and do a little demo and paintover for each one. I hope you find it helpful!

As always, here is a cheat sheet with the most essential information from the tutorial, and you can also find a PDF version at the bottom of this post:

Here’s some additional tutorials that you might find helpful to check out if you want to improve your face drawing skills:

Drawing faces and expressions: This tutorial runs you through the basics of how I construct a head and the facial features.

Finalizing without over-rendering: This tutorial shows you how to render and finalize your work without muddy or over-blended results.

Creating vibrant skintones: This tutorial gives tips and advice for picking your base colors, highlights, and shadows when painting skin.

Thanks so much to everyone who sent me artwork to include in this tutorial! I ended up selecting work by Robin Westby, Elena Pollock, Dominic Bronico, Sam T, Ashley Drew, Melody Gordon, Azalea’s Dolls, Diaz, Zayn A, Brittani Harris, Feryal, Joshua Lai, and Bookish Gremlin. Big thanks to all of you! If you like this paint-over format for a tutorial, let me know - I’d be happy to do more in the future!

As always, subtitled version is coming up in a minute!