TUTORIAL // drawing faces: common mistakes
Added 2023-04-06 13:23:59 +0000 UTCIt’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!
Comments
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! This month's tutorial is also going to be about similar topics (drawing a stylized face), hopefully you'll enjoy that one too!
Loish
2024-12-05 10:58:31 +0000 UTCThanks so much for sharing this tutorial! I feel like it has made some things click for me and I’ve noticed a huge improvement already, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Sleeping Pixels
2024-12-04 13:49:27 +0000 UTCno worries! I'm thinking about making a tutorial on stylizing the face so i can definitely talk about that topic then. i'll also be doing the "same face from different angles" challenge this week and the challenge resource will probably be a lot about this topic too!
Loish
2024-11-24 11:34:19 +0000 UTCI would love to see more face tutorials like this! I've been watching a bunch.I am trying to understand the basics of the face. Could you talk about face planes? I am having trouble with the planes of the face. I love how Arcane has the hard edges in the face and I'd love to understand how that works! Just wanted to comment, I know this is from last year haha
Shotsy Creates
2024-11-23 22:30:48 +0000 UTCWell, I think you did a great job conveying that. 🙂
ChrisC
2023-05-08 16:14:07 +0000 UTCi definitely will be! it was such a pleasure. i'm glad you got that impression, because i really dislike paint-overs or corrections that push the art towards a different intent than it originally had!
Loish
2023-05-08 14:33:13 +0000 UTCI think seeing you do corrections is extremely helpful. I also think your emphasis on keeping your own style is super important. So I like how you tried keeping in line with the original artists' sketch. Watching you correct over different styles shows how your techniques can be applied to a wide array of issues. Seeing those issues easily corrected gives me confidence to correct my own work without overthinking. I hope you do more of these.
ChrisC
2023-05-06 11:54:05 +0000 UTCthanks so much, i'm glad you like them!
Loish
2023-05-01 10:30:55 +0000 UTCI agree with Rodrigo, you can tell that you spend time planning the tutorialsbecause there's always a nice logical flow to them: there's a clear intro, middle and conclusion that makes them easy to follow and retain the most important points. I think this type of paintover demo can be helpful in learning how to train our eye to spot these "mistakes" in our own art.
France
2023-04-30 20:00:52 +0000 UTCso glad you like it joffrey!
Loish
2023-04-24 09:49:02 +0000 UTCMonster of a tutorial! if anyone just signed up for a month, this is the Must-see tutorial! So awesome!
Joffery Black
2023-04-20 17:49:21 +0000 UTCI agree. I'm so grateful to them!!
Loish
2023-04-14 08:44:07 +0000 UTCi enjoyed it a lot, so I think it should become a series! doing paint-overs always brings me to new insights and learning points that i want to share!
Loish
2023-04-14 08:43:53 +0000 UTCthank you! I'm happy to hear that :)
Loish
2023-04-14 08:43:06 +0000 UTCIt’s really a joy to watch your tutorials, I’m learning a lot with the tips. And also, the videos always show so much structure, it’s probably a result of planning ahead I guess, but it always makes me want to pay close attention from the beginning til the end. :)
Rodrigo Falco
2023-04-13 18:57:43 +0000 UTCThis might be my new favorite tutorial from you Loish!! I learned so much from it. I hope this 'paint-over' video will become a series on your patreon, it was very informative! Thank you for making this tutorial
chilla
2023-04-13 14:30:52 +0000 UTCWhat a useful tutorial, all 3 sections were really helpful. Thanks, and also thanks to the artists who submitted the original work, quite a brave thing to do
Matthew Jeppesen
2023-04-13 12:25:07 +0000 UTCSo so helpful to see the draw-overs because I could see my own struggles in the original artwork. Thanks Lois!
andy_illustrates
2023-04-11 17:57:54 +0000 UTCthat's a really interesting topic and it's been requested before! I will definitely add it to the list!
Loish
2023-04-11 09:26:51 +0000 UTCthanks so much kat!
Loish
2023-04-11 09:25:38 +0000 UTCsame here, I need to see it to understand it! we artists create images for a reason! I'm gald you enjoyed it :)
Loish
2023-04-11 09:25:30 +0000 UTCthanks so much for supporting me niels!
Loish
2023-04-11 09:23:36 +0000 UTCglad you enjoyed it petr!
Loish
2023-04-11 09:23:20 +0000 UTCI'm glad you liked it! I think you have a really cool style, I love the personality that shows through in your characters!
Loish
2023-04-11 09:23:04 +0000 UTChey tony! it's linked in the description above! You can find it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-video-40374192 there's a full list of all the learning content in the pinned post at the top of the feed: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pinned-post-44072057
Loish
2023-04-11 08:58:23 +0000 UTCSuper helpful. You mention a face tutorial. Was it a video, or did you mean the free PDFs on you website? If it is a video, could you post the link again please? Also, do you have a catalog page of the patreon content somewhere? The search functionality on patreon isn't really helpful, at least to me. Thanks again!
Tony
2023-04-10 18:32:48 +0000 UTCThank you so much! This was very helpful. I definitely was struggling with my lil faetie-pixie characters face lacking the definition but my brain at the time was struggling to figure out what was missing. 💕💕
BookishPym
2023-04-07 22:58:33 +0000 UTCThis was great tutorial. Thank you so much and also to people that send their art:)
Petr Macháně
2023-04-07 18:57:15 +0000 UTCSuch a great tutorial, you handle the paintovers so gracefully. Your tips were also super interesting and helpful! Thank you so much!
Noukah
2023-04-07 08:33:06 +0000 UTCI'm so glad I became a patron. Tutorials like these are incredibly helpful for where I am in my art journey, and you deliver it so well. Thanks a lot :-)
Niels Westerneng
2023-04-07 07:49:52 +0000 UTCThis was so very helpful especially since one of my sketches was included so I could better visualize what I need to focus on in practice! I really appreciate that!
Enrayn
2023-04-06 22:07:40 +0000 UTCThis was great and really helpful! Thank you to the artists that contributed and made it possible.
Lorrie Meyercord
2023-04-06 21:59:26 +0000 UTCThis was soo helpful, thank you! Im a visual person so the paintovers made it really easy to understand how to implement what you were explaining :)
Helen
2023-04-06 19:09:22 +0000 UTCSo good! I LOVE the paintovers. Really cool to see how you tackle some of the problem areas in each. Thanks so much for putting this together! :)
Kat Craig
2023-04-06 17:59:26 +0000 UTCThank you again for demonstrating!! It was so incredibly helpful to see!
Melody
2023-04-06 16:41:31 +0000 UTCDefinitely want more paintovers in the future - it’s sooo helpful for my visual brain to actually see a transformation happen. Step by step tutorials have a place too, but there’s something about paintovers that demonstrates your points super clearly. Thank you
Hovey Eyres
2023-04-06 16:30:10 +0000 UTCI love your tutorial. 💛 I really like the paint-overs it was really helpful see the examples how your solving the real issues and what you focus. I will be really happy see some tutorial about what you learnt in animation school. How animation change your mindset when you drawing with reference. And I love to see more your concept art stuff. I know you can show as the work but it will super cool some tutorial about concept art. How you do character and how you play with shape language etc. 🥰❤️
Klara Art
2023-04-06 16:24:27 +0000 UTCWas very enjoyable Loish. I think the paintovers reeeeeeaaalllly help. Would love to see more :D
Nyaar
2023-04-06 15:29:53 +0000 UTCOmg! This was really helpful! Thank you so much!
Yara Proença
2023-04-06 15:11:23 +0000 UTC
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