The Instinctive Artist

 

Chapter 3

 

 

Measure your face

 

 

The best way to remember the proportions of the face is to get a ruler out and measure your face. Measure from top of head to chin first and then measure across the bridge of your nose. Once you have done that draw those two lines on to your paper.

 

 

Across the mid line draw five shapes for eyes starting in the middle. There are five eye spaces across our face where our eyes are so once you have done that you can rub out the middle eye shape and the two at each end.

 

 

 

 

 

It is important to remember the eyes are midway from the

top of the head and the bottom of the chin.

 


Now draw two further lines, as shown.                                                                


We can now put the nostrils on the third line, use the

eye shapes as a guide.

  

 

 

 

Important to put in is the philtrum, the two lines that connect the nose to the mouth.

 

Now we can put in some lines for the mouth using the nostrils and philtrum as a guide.

 

So now we understand the basic proportions of the face.

 

Now let’s practice painting each individual feature …