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How to sketch medium size faces with ink and watercolor using an easy technique.

I added in a fourth reference because there was a lot of interest in the comments from the poll for learning how to draw a smiling face with teeth! 😁

SUPPORT FILES: Please download the high resolution references below as well as the template so you can easily sketch along with this tutorial.

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Suzanne Taylor

I am definitely learning how to sketch people. I need all the help you have to offer or you will just need to come to the US and sketch them for me 😂😂😂

Ben

Really enjoyed sketching along with these ones! Now I just have to get past the anxiety of the first stroke of watercolour 😄 loved the very interesting portrait choices Scottie!

Amber Clark

Where are the reference photos for this video? I don't see the usual link? Thanks!

Ruth Loewen

I will definitely try these faces. You make them look do-able. But I don't understand how to use the circles as basic structure when I can't draw on the reference photos; usually I'm looking at a photo of my own, or one found online, onscreen, not a printed out hard copy that could be pencilled. Do you just imagine a circle on the face?

Douglas Vears

Any tips on making the faces look like the actual people? Mine look ok proportionwise but are always a bit generic

Anna

Great lesson thank you 😀

Cathy

Jotting in the chin line is an excellent idea. Thanks!

Jose

Hello there!! How do you guys measure the width between de eyes ...or even the nose? I always have some problem whit that.

etiana

a medium face is in beteen which sizes please?