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Have that ever happened to you before? You start drawing a face to find that when you're done, it's nowhere near the person that you're trying to draw?
The problem is that all faces are a unique combination of a set of features. When we take these features apart, we see that there are hundred and one different features. We all have different lips, different noses, different eyes, different ears, different hair, and different face shapes.
And when all these different features come together, it makes the task more difficult for the artist to capture the visual resemblence on paper.
Also, we have to take note of the age of the face that we're drawing. If you're drawing babies, the best time to draw them is when their asleep. Because you can't have them moving around when you draw them.
When drawing babies, keep the drawing simple with few lines and only capture the features of the face.
If you're drawing a child, the features are more defined compared to those of a baby. So you'll have to lock in the features with stronger and darker lines. But the skin is still smooth and gentle. Try not to add to many lines to the face of a child.
Teenagers are young adults. You may approach drawing the face of a teenager in the same way as you would approach drawing the face of an adult. The key to drawing a mature face is to capture the essence of the face.
That means capturing the personality of the face. Some people have a confident look. Some have a shy look, and some have a mischievious look and so on. Try to capture that in your drawing.
Finally, remember not to draw all your faces to look like hollywood stars. Human beings do not look like plastic in real life. So keep your drawings realistic by including any details that make your drawing look more human.
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