Let me know which of these tips you liked the best, and if you would like another great beginners tutorial try: Watercolor Pencils Tutorial (for Beginners!) ua-cam.com/video/DDBML3f5nNI/v-deo.html
This was great! Very informative, I've always used the loomis method for portraits, but there's so many lines, I can see similarities between them. The loomis method helps more for the planes of the face and light and shadow. Your method is much better for placement of the features. Thank you for sharing will definitely try this on my next portrait
I really like all 7 tips! Thank you so much! Maybe also an beginner tutorial about how to draw simple body's? I woud be verder happy :) And; thank you for your great teaching skilss. The more slow tempo during the drawing makes it very concrete! I want to start trying imediatly :)
I found all the tips helpful but using the curved lines makes so much sense. I've tried drawing with the straight guidelines and my faces always looked flat or odd and now I know why! Is there a "rule of thumb" when it comes to ear placement? Thank you so much for your videos - I'm really enjoying them and learning a lot.
I want to thank you for your videos. I am 68 years young and finally getting started on doing portraits again. The last time I did one I was in high school. Had a fantastic art teacher. Your videos help bring back my memory of all the guidelines I forgot. I look forward to watching more of your lessons. You are a good teach.
I wish I had a good art teacher! WOW she wasn't sadly very good at teaching you how to draw. She also wasn't a good artist? I'm still not sure why she was a teacher for art? I dunno but she was just not good at explaining. I remember drawing something I think it was a self portrait and she was all not all eyes are almond shaped like Jasmin efrom Aladdin" then she looked at me and said "Oh my bad!" LOL like? Seriously? Mine are actually almondy round shaped if that makes sense? LOL But ya she wasn't a good teacher! She was supportive though so I will give her that. Again no idea why she was in the position for art!?
I love how, unlike most teachers, you give detailed explanations for every instruction. As a mathematics student, I am incredibly pleased with your art teaching method. You deliver the knowledge most interestingly and pleasingly. I've never felt bored or overloaded with information while watching your videos. Take my compliment and thankfulness. Wish you the best.♥👍
I learned more about perspective in this video than I ever learned in school art classes. Michele has a simple way of explaining everything, so the information isn't overwhelming and seems almost easy. Keep those videos coming - you are a wonderful teacher. I'll watch this one again to reinforce things I've learned. Next the building perspective video!
I have taken many drawing classes, even at a prominent college of art, and not one instructor EXPLAINED, in detail, how to actually draw as you did. Thank you sooo much.
I think the bonus tip at the end wraps up the entire lesson so well. I feel challenged and inspired to head for my stack of mags right NOW!! Love all your lessons. They are so refreshing and original... no dry, rehashed stuff. You have really shortened my learning curve. Thank you!!
The curved guidelines is exactly what I’ve been missing in drawing faces! It made such perfect sense when when you said it but it had never occurred to me before. Thanks so much for taking the time to explain this. 😄
I had seen this video about a year ago and found it very helpful. Now that I’ve been trying to draw faces for awhile I have come back to it and realize how much I’d forgotten. No wonder I was having problems with some head positions. Thank you again Michele you’ve been such a great help.
Finally someone who explains the curved faceline! I saw that so many time explained in the wrong way. It hurts me as a teaching artist that so many "teacher" get away with rubbish just because they have the right amound of clicks and substriptions. Thank you for your drawing tips. I will recomend your chanel to other students. If you get into the habbit of doing things the wrong way because you didnt know it is wrong you get easiely frustrated when you are a beginner. And to learn how to draw the human body is diifficuld enough. So thanks. xs
Absolutely brilliant I am learning so much. Thank you for your teaching I really appreciate it. You are very clear and to the point. You don’t waffle I switch off with wafflers 😀😀
I'm a beginner and was taking notes! Your "rule of halves" and no hard lines on teeth and noses are definitely written down! Thank you for your time and effort.
Thank you! The best and clearest explanation of how - and the exercise of doing it on faces in newspapers and magazines is the why-didn't-I-think-of-that-before tip of the year!
Your tip about magazines was so helpful, surprisingly much more so than I even imagined! I’ve struggled for so long to draw a portrait of my dog, yet after tracing a couple of similar breeds in a magazine I had, I managed to pull off the best sketch I’ve done so far! Just understanding the shapes and lines that make up a picture was really useful for me, so thanks for the advice! Much appreciated. 🙌🏼
Yes more drawing tips please...maybe something on foreshortening. I like the way you keep it simple and easy to understand. I didn’t feel discouraged afterwards and I’m looking forward to trying the bonus tip. Great job Michele!
Oh my , I wish you were my teacher 50 years ago as drawing was the only lesson I enjoyed all through school , I only ever wished to be able to draw portraits , you have just inspired me to pick the pencil back up the goal is to do my family portrait before the lord takes me
This is exactly what I need. My NY resolution was to learn to do simple portraits and I had no idea where to start and I got muddled with the proportions of the face. Even I can remember how to do the curves now. It was really useful to learn that I can draw on newspapers and learn from that, rather than trace it onto the paper. I really liked learning about the lips, eyes and nose, these are so hard for me. I look forward to having a bit of a practice. It was really good to see the comparisons. I would iike to learn how to do simple watercolour portraits, men's hair and shoulders ie tops of men's shirts, men's shoulders, women's blousers. I would like to learn how to do the shapes and proportions of toddler's faces too, incomparison to adults. Off topic I would also like to draw people doing things in landscapes ie walking, walking the dog, holding hands and walking, running... to add some interested and movement to my landscapes
As an artist it is good to challenge yourself. The trickier the image that I am doing the happier I usually am with the result. I never got a good art lesson in highschool. They had an art teacher but I don't know why she wasn't very talented at drawing or teaching the information on how to do it. I feel bad saying that! So ya challenge yourself and really don't fear it. I hate that a lot of artists are lazy and cowards when it comes to backgrounds. I've been drawing my whole life I am 40 now and I have tons of experinece even if there are some mistakes I make. But I learned that the fact is that if you opt to not draw something because it is hard to learn then you will never ever improve! The fact is if a background is hard for you eventually as you get more practice in then you will see it getting better! Same for hands etc! I've had a teacher at college that she doesn't draw hands because she sucks at them! Like? How can you learn? That was a college that lasted 2 weeks for me they'd lied about it being animation classes it was graphic design which is not the same thing. That's like thinking I"m going to college to be a Dr and ending up in Nursing college! Like? NO! Seriously though they lied to me about the school. It wasn't a pleasant experinece! So my thought is this be willing to challenge yourself.
Thank you so much this is the best tutorial on drawing faces I have seen. I will now look at faces so differently. Oh now I have the urge to hunt some old magazines from friends to practice doodling.
I have learned so much from your video. With your clear ......makes all the sense in the world .....and with a hint of humor....your explanations and demonstrations were spot on. I am on the verge of doing portraits in watercolors. I’m hoping you get into shadowing, glazing, painting loose secrets to share.
Totally agree! I grabbed a newspaper as soon as the video ended and even before I began drawing, the shape, angle and centre lines almost jumped out at me. Then drawing them trains the eye-hand connection.
Thanks for sharing! I'm a 40yr old just tapping into my creative side and getting into art, drawing, mixed media and WATER COLORS! I'm so glad I found your channel! Will you be showing us how to shade in those faces properly? I'd love to see that!
The curved guide lines that delineate the roundness of the head as well as the way they slant have help so much in creating depth and demention in my drawings. Also the features must also show depth by their retreating size (ie:,the eye shape isnt a true almond shape and has more of a diamond or paralellagragm aspect.)
Thank you for the very clear instruction. I am a beginner and I have had problems with head angles and tend to want to draw people looking directly at the camera. Now I will be practicing drawing them looking at different angles. Because of your great examples, I think I now get it. Thanks again.
This is great! Stumbled over your videos... I appreciate your detailed instruction. Never been good at drawing faces. This is a game changer. Thank you for sharing your gift.❤
omgod i’m sitting here ready to go to sleep - i am shocked about the eye tilt due to the skull’s shape that i never even was taught and i took a full portrait course that was very in depth and expensive. i was cracking up listening to you. i love how honest and your choice of words. ❤love ya michelle!! thank you
Thank you, Michele Webber, what a helpful video this is. I love all the hacks, a couple of which I had not seen before. I would adore a video on how to watercolour faces, please!
The best video on UA-cam on drawing faces!!! The others have you drawing cartoon characters. Thank you for taking the time to teach an actual art class for free!
WOW, WOW, WOWWW. Absolutely phenomenal teaching & technique. For the VERY FIRST time ever I can actually "SEE" the light & shadows to be able to draw with some degree of ease. It is such an fascinating experience to realize how something seen constantly does NOT necessarily equate to truly seeing it. And this is true on so many levels of awareness which I am noticing as I was watching this tutorial. Thank you for sharing your wonderful gift!
This was a really useful video. I recently attended an art class and, although I was taught the proportions, I was not taught about the curvature of the head and this makes so much difference. Thank you.
I can’t just pick one Michelle. I’m a beginner draw er so they were ALL really helpful. I’ve heard the things you said were taught incorrectly. What you’re teaching makes waaay more sense. Thank you for this.
Very useful tips! I've always shied away from portrait painting due to lack of knowledge regarding proportions. I LOVE the tip to doodle on photos of faces in newspapers!!
I cannot thank you enough for this tutorial. I have a very hard time with portraits and facial features especially. I will definitely be practicing on my skills using a magazine or newspapers. Wonderful idea! Any other beginner tips/tricks that you have would always be appreciated!!!
Michele, you are so right, I have been instructed to do eyes on a straight plane when drawing a person is looking at you. I have had so much problems with up & down head looking portraits because this was never explained. This makes so much sense. Thank you so much. I has subscribed because of your explanations.
Thank you so much for your tutorials, this one I'm sure will spur me on to better results. Great idea to use magazines or newspapers for better practice!
This tutorial is amazing! I have been trying to draw faces for a while without all that much success. What helped me most was finding the center line and the lines where the eyes, nose and mouth go. Thank you so much!
Fantastic Michele. I’m trying to get the nerve to do a self portrait and this has really encouraged me. You always say that you can’t get a good painting from a bad drawing. I need to learn to draw. Thanks again
Thank you so much! I have started to draw more than watercolor in the second half of last year and this year I feel more attracted to learn to draw people so I naturally jumped on your video. Very useful tips, especially the one about the curved guidelines. I wish you showed more examples of drawing over faces. I do that to sometimes, but I should really don't more.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Yes. That would be great. I still didn-t understand how you did the curved line at the mouth. I do understand a bit about perspective in an ovoid shape, but still have a lot to learn when it comes to drawing faces.
Thank you so much. I've always wanted to draw without using transfer paper or other things. I REALLY want to learn to draw. I used to paint back in the 80's from craft painting books and I was self taught and did so well that I painted for a store in my town and they took my stuff to craft shows. They were even accused of my work being done in some way other than by a person by hand. So I know I've always been very creative and have natural skills. I wish I'd gone to art school with my friend but I didn't. God bless you and yours. Be safe and well. ❣️
You have know idea how thankful I am for this video. I'm learning faces and have watched tons of videos that say to draw your eyes straight and I knew it just didn't seem right. I would every time have to erase my eyes and draw them straight because I'm the student and their the teacher, what do I know lol. Thank you again for the correct teaching.
Oh man how I wish I had seen this video years ago. It would have saved me so much frustration and grief. Your simplification is so very much appreciated.
I’ve learned so much from this tutorial I liked the lesson best with the angle of the head and eyes looking up or down Lips as well Actually lol everything! Thank you Patricia
Thank you for these great hacks! They're all very helpful as I'm just starting to try painting portraits. I especially like the use of drawing the facial outlines like eggs facing different directions, along with using lines to demarcated the features. Thanks again!
Thank you for sharing. You use simple but effective illustrations for better understanding. Your ways of delivery is awesome, especially to show the right and wrong doings in parallel. These are the basic skills I look for. You are really a good teacher, thanks again.
Thank you so much, everything I have been doing in the past is wrong,I've watched a number of your videos and I have learned a lot. Thank you so much ; and also, thank you for being very easy on the eye yourself.
You have certainly simplified the process explaining this in a way that makes much more sense. Emphasizing curved lines for the features was a key point to me and had never heard this to be pointed out. Thankyou for showing this. I just don't understand how could anyone give your video a thumbs down. KUDOS to you for this video. I have just subscribed to your channel.
Enjoyed yet another of your videos Michele, explained calmly and clear which inspire others to produce a better picture and teach that preparation will improve the end results.Thanks greatly appreciated stay safe and healthy
Michele, thank you so much for all the tips. Everything you explain is easy to understand & follow. I just want you to know that I appreciate so much your time & thoughtfulness that you put into all your videos. Best wishes to you always! Karen in Michigan😊
This was fantastic! Thanks so much. Wonderful tip about drawing the guidelines over faces in print. Good way to make television watching more productive.
Very valuable data. The angle of the head, the center of the face, and the curved guidelines are the basics for faces, even for cartoons and animation. I'll be practicing those a lot. I just started drawing individual features and this will really help when I put them together. (I haven't even finished this tutorial, but I'm already more confident.) Your videos are always helpful. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Michelle, for these drawing hacks! I especially like the one about curves that eyes, nose and mouth are positioned on! The face looks mire natural and leess flat.
All of your tips are helpful, understandable and greatly useful for THE FACE which many people consider the hardest part of the body to learn to draw. I particularly liked the bonus tip of drawing over faces in newspapers magazines for practice. 🍏🎨🙏
Thank you for all the great tips that you explain so well. I particularly liked the explanation about the curve of the eyes and that even though we do line them up straight across the face it's important to curve that line depending on the angle of the face as a whole.
You are a fantastic teacher. I could listen and watch you for ever. This video was great. I have been painting on and off for years. But faces , both human and animals were disastrous So thank you so much for taking the time to help the likes of me. I am I’ll at the moment but you have given me the urge to try again. Please keep on making your videos. God Bless You. Annette from Ireland 👏☘️
I am in the process of doing a self-portrait & your instructions are very much needed. Had classes some years ago but didn't follow up with portraits. Thanks for your instructions.
My go-to method for drawing a face is Loomis. Relatively simple, very thorough and usefull. His books are free domain, and available in pdf format, free to download. I must say I only ever drew faces in graphite/charcoal. Though I started in watercolor relatively recently, I haven't tried painting one (a portrait that is, did paint some humans), probably about time to give it a go...
As usual, I have learned enough to attempt to draw my granddaughter’s favourite basketball player. Don’t have a lot of confidence in my drawing abilities but she seems to think that, for her, I will learn. Thanks, Michele
Let me know which of these tips you liked the best, and if you would like another great beginners tutorial try: Watercolor Pencils Tutorial (for Beginners!) ua-cam.com/video/DDBML3f5nNI/v-deo.html
This was great! Very informative, I've always used the loomis method for portraits, but there's so many lines, I can see similarities between them. The loomis method helps more for the planes of the face and light and shadow. Your method is much better for placement of the features. Thank you for sharing will definitely try this on my next portrait
I really like all 7 tips! Thank you so much! Maybe also an beginner tutorial about how to draw simple body's? I woud be verder happy :)
And; thank you for your great teaching skilss. The more slow tempo during the drawing makes it very concrete! I want to start trying imediatly :)
all
Brilliant I love art but never had the chance to learn so I am hungry for all tutorials thank you
I found all the tips helpful but using the curved lines makes so much sense. I've tried drawing with the straight guidelines and my faces always looked flat or odd and now I know why! Is there a "rule of thumb" when it comes to ear placement? Thank you so much for your videos - I'm really enjoying them and learning a lot.
This is a godsend. This just opened a whole new world for me. Please, don't ever take this video down.
Don't worry, it's not going anywhere!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thank you so much 🥰❤️😁👍
Agreed 😊🎵
I drew her diagrams to keep it with me while drawing ❤
Very helpful!
Just started pencil drawing in my 70s never tried before , now every day is a school day , thanks to people like Michele.
That is awesome!
I want to thank you for your videos. I am 68 years young and finally getting started on doing portraits again. The last time I did one I was in high school. Had a fantastic art teacher. Your videos help bring back my memory of all the guidelines I forgot. I look forward to watching more of your lessons. You are a good teach.
You are so welcome!
I wish I had a good art teacher! WOW she wasn't sadly very good at teaching you how to draw. She also wasn't a good artist? I'm still not sure why she was a teacher for art? I dunno but she was just not good at explaining. I remember drawing something I think it was a self portrait and she was all not all eyes are almond shaped like Jasmin efrom Aladdin" then she looked at me and said "Oh my bad!" LOL like? Seriously? Mine are actually almondy round shaped if that makes sense? LOL But ya she wasn't a good teacher!
She was supportive though so I will give her that. Again no idea why she was in the position for art!?
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Head angle, face centre line and curved guidelines are my favourites, but the whole lesson is valuable. Very easy to follow.
I love how, unlike most teachers, you give detailed explanations for every instruction.
As a mathematics student, I am incredibly pleased with your art teaching method.
You deliver the knowledge most interestingly and pleasingly. I've never felt bored or overloaded with information while watching your videos.
Take my compliment and thankfulness. Wish you the best.♥👍
Wow, thank you!
The curved guidelines thing was really helpful. Also lol'd at the Hammer Horror/Clockwork Orange eyes.
I learned more about perspective in this video than I ever learned in school art classes. Michele has a simple way of explaining everything, so the information isn't overwhelming and seems almost easy. Keep those videos coming - you are a wonderful teacher. I'll watch this one again to reinforce things I've learned. Next the building perspective video!
I'm going to rewatch this video also. I will be taking notes because it reinforces my retention.
I have taken many drawing classes, even at a prominent college of art, and not one instructor EXPLAINED, in detail, how to actually draw as you did. Thank you sooo much.
Not a problem, I teach the things that I would want to learn. I have been a victim of 'vague teaching' too!
I think the bonus tip at the end wraps up the entire lesson so well. I feel challenged and inspired to head for my stack of mags right NOW!! Love all your lessons. They are so refreshing and original... no dry, rehashed stuff. You have really shortened my learning curve. Thank you!!
Thanks, Jeneal! Glad you enjoy them!
The curved guidelines is exactly what I’ve been missing in drawing faces! It made such perfect sense when when you said it but it had never occurred to me before. Thanks so much for taking the time to explain this. 😄
You're so welcome!
I had seen this video about a year ago and found it very helpful. Now that I’ve been trying to draw faces for awhile I have come back to it and realize how much I’d forgotten. No wonder I was having problems with some head positions. Thank you again Michele you’ve been such a great help.
Glad it was helpful!
This is a revelation! What a clear and easy to follow tutorial. This is a keeper for sure. Thank you!
Finally someone who explains the curved faceline! I saw that so many time explained in the wrong way. It hurts me as a teaching artist that so many "teacher" get away with rubbish just because they have the right amound of clicks and substriptions.
Thank you for your drawing tips. I will recomend your chanel to other students. If you get into the habbit of doing things the wrong way because you didnt know it is wrong you get easiely frustrated when you are a beginner. And to learn how to draw the human body is diifficuld enough. So thanks. xs
The good thing about UA-cam is anyone can make a video, and the bad thing about UA-cam is... anyone can make a video!
Absolutely brilliant I am learning so much. Thank you for your teaching I really appreciate it. You are very clear and to the point. You don’t waffle I switch off with wafflers 😀😀
I'm a beginner and was taking notes! Your "rule of halves" and no hard lines on teeth and noses are definitely written down! Thank you for your time and effort.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! The best and clearest explanation of how - and the exercise of doing it on faces in newspapers and magazines is the why-didn't-I-think-of-that-before tip of the year!
You're very welcome!
I’ve watched several of your videos. Your one of the best teachers I’ve had the pleasure to watch. Thank you
Your tip about magazines was so helpful, surprisingly much more so than I even imagined! I’ve struggled for so long to draw a portrait of my dog, yet after tracing a couple of similar breeds in a magazine I had, I managed to pull off the best sketch I’ve done so far! Just understanding the shapes and lines that make up a picture was really useful for me, so thanks for the advice! Much appreciated. 🙌🏼
I'm so glad!
Great to hear a real artist that can actually explain in simple terms, to all those that are trying to be!
Yes more drawing tips please...maybe something on foreshortening. I like the way you keep it simple and easy to understand. I didn’t feel discouraged afterwards and I’m looking forward to trying the bonus tip. Great job Michele!
Noted!
I agree. I didn't realize foreshortening was an issue with such close proportions, but now it makes since.
Oh my , I wish you were my teacher 50 years ago as drawing was the only lesson I enjoyed all through school , I only ever wished to be able to draw portraits , you have just inspired me to pick the pencil back up the goal is to do my family portrait before the lord takes me
This is exactly what I need. My NY resolution was to learn to do simple portraits and I had no idea where to start and I got muddled with the proportions of the face. Even I can remember how to do the curves now. It was really useful to learn that I can draw on newspapers and learn from that, rather than trace it onto the paper. I really liked learning about the lips, eyes and nose, these are so hard for me. I look forward to having a bit of a practice. It was really good to see the comparisons. I would iike to learn how to do simple watercolour portraits, men's hair and shoulders ie tops of men's shirts, men's shoulders, women's blousers. I would like to learn how to do the shapes and proportions of toddler's faces too, incomparison to adults. Off topic I would also like to draw people doing things in landscapes ie walking, walking the dog, holding hands and walking, running... to add some interested and movement to my landscapes
As an artist it is good to challenge yourself. The trickier the image that I am doing the happier I usually am with the result. I never got a good art lesson in highschool. They had an art teacher but I don't know why she wasn't very talented at drawing or teaching the information on how to do it. I feel bad saying that! So ya challenge yourself and really don't fear it.
I hate that a lot of artists are lazy and cowards when it comes to backgrounds. I've been drawing my whole life I am 40 now and I have tons of experinece even if there are some mistakes I make. But I learned that the fact is that if you opt to not draw something because it is hard to learn then you will never ever improve! The fact is if a background is hard for you eventually as you get more practice in then you will see it getting better! Same for hands etc! I've had a teacher at college that she doesn't draw hands because she sucks at them! Like? How can you learn?
That was a college that lasted 2 weeks for me they'd lied about it being animation classes it was graphic design which is not the same thing. That's like thinking I"m going to college to be a Dr and ending up in Nursing college! Like? NO! Seriously though they lied to me about the school. It wasn't a pleasant experinece! So my thought is this be willing to challenge yourself.
I;ve taken a few drawing courses but you have taught me a way of making my portraits look human. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much this is the best tutorial on drawing faces I have seen. I will now look at faces so differently. Oh now I have the urge to hunt some old magazines from friends to practice doodling.
Wonderful!
Free catalogs from stores are good too. Some stores even have their catalogs online.
@@marcosreal11 Great Idea, i want to learn digital drawing. 👍
I have learned so much from your video. With your clear ......makes all the sense in the world .....and with a hint of humor....your explanations and demonstrations were spot on. I am on the verge of doing portraits in watercolors. I’m hoping you get into shadowing, glazing, painting loose secrets to share.
I am sure I will!
Great idea to trace faces on magazines. It is a very non threatening way and good practice.
It really is!
I can understand you. I need to know when lessons take place. I'm older and not used to computers. The simpler the better.
Totally agree! I grabbed a newspaper as soon as the video ended and even before I began drawing, the shape, angle and centre lines almost jumped out at me. Then drawing them trains the eye-hand connection.
Thanks for sharing! I'm a 40yr old just tapping into my creative side and getting into art, drawing, mixed media and WATER COLORS! I'm so glad I found your channel! Will you be showing us how to shade in those faces properly? I'd love to see that!
A lot of people have asked this so eventually, yes I will!
The curved guide lines that delineate the roundness of the head as well as the way they slant have help so much in creating depth and demention in my drawings. Also the features must also show depth by their retreating size (ie:,the eye shape isnt a true almond shape and has more of a diamond or paralellagragm aspect.)
Thank you for the very clear instruction. I am a beginner and I have had problems with head angles and tend to want to draw people looking directly at the camera. Now I will be practicing drawing them looking at different angles. Because of your great examples, I think I now get it. Thanks again.
Wonderful!
This is great! Stumbled over your videos... I appreciate your detailed instruction. Never been good at drawing faces. This is a game changer.
Thank you for sharing your gift.❤
You're very welcome!
omgod i’m sitting here ready to go to sleep - i am shocked about the eye tilt due to the skull’s shape that i never even was taught and i took a full portrait course that was very in depth and expensive. i was cracking up listening to you. i love how honest and your choice of words. ❤love ya michelle!! thank you
Aw thanks!
Thank you, Michele Webber, what a helpful video this is. I love all the hacks, a couple of which I had not seen before. I would adore a video on how to watercolour faces, please!
Noted Bessie, thanks for watching!
The best video on UA-cam on drawing faces!!! The others have you drawing cartoon characters. Thank you for taking the time to teach an actual art class for free!
You're very welcome! I'm too old to do Manga lol
You are a fabulous teacher! I have been teaching myself to draw and paint and just a couple of your videos have cleared up so many of my frustrations!
Wonderful! Thank you :-)
WOW, WOW, WOWWW.
Absolutely phenomenal teaching & technique. For the VERY FIRST time ever I can actually "SEE" the light & shadows to be able to draw with some degree of ease. It is such an fascinating experience to realize how something seen constantly does NOT necessarily equate to truly seeing it. And this is true on so many levels of awareness which I am noticing as I was watching this tutorial.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful gift!
Wow, thank you, my pleasure!
What an eye opener! Loved this video. I’ll be drawing over every face, human or not, that I come across 😃
This was a really useful video. I recently attended an art class and, although I was taught the proportions, I was not taught about the curvature of the head and this makes so much difference. Thank you.
I loved learning the curved structure lines, I really needed that tip. Merci, Michele! 😊
So glad!
I can’t just pick one Michelle. I’m a beginner draw er so they were ALL really helpful. I’ve heard the things you said were taught incorrectly. What you’re teaching makes waaay more sense.
Thank you for this.
I'm so glad!
This was good, I liked all of it and had never thought of the magazine tracing. Thanks. I’d also like a video on drawing people walking, sitting, etc.
Noted!
Very useful tips! I've always shied away from portrait painting due to lack of knowledge regarding proportions. I LOVE the tip to doodle on photos of faces in newspapers!!
Amazing lesson, really helpfull. It’s the first time I’ve had such clear explanations. Thanks ever so much!
Great to hear!
I cannot thank you enough for this tutorial. I have a very hard time with portraits and facial features especially. I will definitely be practicing on my skills using a magazine or newspapers. Wonderful idea! Any other beginner tips/tricks that you have would always be appreciated!!!
You're very welcome! I will be doing some landscape drawing and perspective videos soon!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge so generously. 😊
Extremely helpful video and to the point with humor. Wonderful.❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Michele, you are so right, I have been instructed to do eyes on a straight plane when drawing a person is looking at you. I have had so much problems with up & down head looking portraits because this was never explained. This makes so much sense. Thank you so much. I has subscribed because of your explanations.
Thanks so much Anna!
Very, very good tips and a surprising reference - A Clockwork Orange! Yes, that is the eye!!
Thank you Michelle. I enjoyed the video. Curved lines, center mouth, angles, doddle on magazines different face angles. The whole lot really.
Wonderful!
Now we need a tutorial on shading/painting a face !
Good idea! I am doing a face in Patreon, but she has white geisha make up. A drawing one perhaps... charcoal maybe!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber recently, a friend gave me a charcoal pencil set. I would love a video on how to use them.
Doodeling on magazine faces is a great idea! Thank you for this lesson and the hot tip!
Your explanations are so easy to follow. Thank you for making it a bit simpler for an older newbie :-)
You're very welcome, Cheryl!
Really helpful. I've known the basics for decades. But now I know how the proportion changes with the angle of the face. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for your tutorials, this one I'm sure will spur me on to better results. Great idea to use magazines or newspapers for better practice!
Have fun!
I get a lot from you teaching. I think you are humorous at times and lovely at all times.
Thank you!
This was great! I had forgotten a lot of these guidelines 😎💕
After 35 years of working I have finally started drawing again. I found your video and it is the best on you tube do far. Thank You😃
Wonderful, good luck with your work!
This has been so informative and easy to understand. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Most helpful was the information about the eyes and the lips, and how to draw them and the nose and the rule of halves
This tutorial is amazing! I have been trying to draw faces for a while without all that much success. What helped me most was finding the center line and the lines where the eyes, nose and mouth go. Thank you so much!
Such an important lesson! I'm not new at this , but ever learning . Drawing on the curve , is not a common teaching .
Fantastic Michele. I’m trying to get the nerve to do a self portrait and this has really encouraged me. You always say that you can’t get a good painting from a bad drawing. I need to learn to draw. Thanks again
You can do it!
Sangat berguna untuk saya yang pemula..saya sangat suka video anda..berikan tutorial menggambar yang lain...sukses buat anda
Thank you so much! I have started to draw more than watercolor in the second half of last year and this year I feel more attracted to learn to draw people so I naturally jumped on your video. Very useful tips, especially the one about the curved guidelines. I wish you showed more examples of drawing over faces. I do that to sometimes, but I should really don't more.
I am surprised how much people liked that bit, I may do more in another video!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Yes. That would be great. I still didn-t understand how you did the curved line at the mouth. I do understand a bit about perspective in an ovoid shape, but still have a lot to learn when it comes to drawing faces.
Thank you so much. I've always wanted to draw without using transfer paper or other things. I REALLY want to learn to draw. I used to paint back in the 80's from craft painting books and I was self taught and did so well that I painted for a store in my town and they took my stuff to craft shows. They were even accused of my work being done in some way other than by a person by hand. So I know I've always been very creative and have natural skills. I wish I'd gone to art school with my friend but I didn't. God bless you and yours. Be safe and well. ❣️
You too Tracy and good luck!
Useful - all of them. Explains a lot of what’s going wrong and sets up my weekend practice program!
Excellent, good luck!
You have know idea how thankful I am for this video. I'm learning faces and have watched tons of videos that say to draw your eyes straight and I knew it just didn't seem right. I would every time have to erase my eyes and draw them straight because I'm the student and their the teacher, what do I know lol. Thank you again for the correct teaching.
You are very welcome!
Oh man how I wish I had seen this video years ago. It would have saved me so much frustration and grief. Your simplification is so very much appreciated.
Thank you Your directions are concise and easy to understand. You are a rare gem of a teacher.
I’m drawing with grids …I like grids … to replicate an image. And I love all these tips and tricks. Great.
I’ve learned so much from this tutorial
I liked the lesson best with the angle of the head and eyes looking up or down
Lips as well
Actually lol everything! Thank you
Patricia
Thank you for these great hacks! They're all very helpful as I'm just starting to try painting portraits. I especially like the use of drawing the facial outlines like eggs facing different directions, along with using lines to demarcated the features. Thanks again!
Thank you for sharing. You use simple but effective illustrations for better understanding. Your ways of delivery is awesome, especially to show the right and wrong doings in parallel. These are the basic skills I look for. You are really a good teacher, thanks again.
You're very welcome!
Thank you so much, everything I have been doing in the past is wrong,I've watched a number of your videos and I have learned a lot. Thank you so much ; and also, thank you for being very easy on the eye yourself.
You have certainly simplified the process explaining this in a way that makes much more sense. Emphasizing curved lines for the features was a key point to me and had never heard this to be pointed out. Thankyou for showing this. I just don't understand how could anyone give your video a thumbs down. KUDOS to you for this video. I have just
subscribed to your channel.
Oh, did they, I never check. It's like those people who obsess over fb unfollows, I wouldn't even notice! Thanks so much for subscribing!
Enjoyed yet another of your videos Michele, explained calmly and clear which inspire others to produce a better picture and teach that preparation will improve the end results.Thanks greatly appreciated stay safe and healthy
Thanks Philip!
Michele, thank you so much for all the tips. Everything you explain is easy to understand & follow. I just want you to know that I appreciate so much your time & thoughtfulness that you put into all your videos. Best wishes to you always! Karen in Michigan😊
You are so welcome Karen!
This was fantastic! Thanks so much. Wonderful tip about drawing the guidelines over faces in print. Good way to make television watching more productive.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The best video for drawing faces...the shape of the skull really hit me. Thank you
Very valuable data. The angle of the head, the center of the face, and the curved guidelines are the basics for faces, even for cartoons and animation. I'll be practicing those a lot. I just started drawing individual features and this will really help when I put them together. (I haven't even finished this tutorial, but I'm already more confident.) Your videos are always helpful. Thank you very much.
You're a riot! And such a great teacher! I will be marking up all my newspapers to learn about the angle of the skull. Thanks! ❤
The last tip is my favorite! It puts it all together.
thank you so much for making these basic principles available to everyone 💕
You're so welcome!
Thank you so much. All the information on where the head is tilting, dividing it for features and centre lines was very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
I love the idea of drawing on photos, it really helped me see the placement of features, thanks Michelle.
I'm so glad!
Starting the mouth from the inner line. I found that very helpful. Thank you as always Michelle.
Glad it was helpful!
You do make guidelines simple to understand! Thank you 🙂
I appreciate the tip of finding the lines first and practicing on magazines and never outline a nose or teeth! Thank you
Thank you, Michelle, for these drawing hacks! I especially like the one about curves that eyes, nose and mouth are positioned on! The face looks mire natural and leess flat.
Glad you like them!
All of your tips are helpful, understandable and greatly useful for THE FACE which many people consider the hardest part of the body to learn to draw. I particularly liked the bonus tip of drawing over faces in newspapers magazines for practice. 🍏🎨🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Brilliant. For me this is the most useful you tube tutorial on drawing I have ever watched. Good subject; clearly and well taught.
Wow, thank you!
Thank you for all the great tips that you explain so well. I particularly liked the explanation about the curve of the eyes and that even though we do line them up straight across the face it's important to curve that line depending on the angle of the face as a whole.
You are a fantastic teacher. I could listen and watch you for ever. This video was great. I have been painting on and off for years. But faces , both human and animals were disastrous So thank you so much for taking the time to help the likes of me. I am I’ll at the moment but you have given me the urge to try again. Please keep on making your videos. God Bless You. Annette from Ireland 👏☘️
Thanks so much Annette!
I am in the process of doing a self-portrait & your instructions are very much needed. Had classes some years ago but didn't follow up with portraits. Thanks for your instructions.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent tutorial Michelle ! Thank you for your lovely videos !
Thanks for watching!
This is literally the best tutorial I've ever watched on UA-cam before! THANK YOU for the lesson! 🥰
Wow, thank you!
Great lesson. Love your teaching style and the gradual stepping up of the process. Thanks
Very helpful for beginners like me. Thank you for the tips.
My go-to method for drawing a face is Loomis. Relatively simple, very thorough and usefull. His books are free domain, and available in pdf format, free to download.
I must say I only ever drew faces in graphite/charcoal. Though I started in watercolor relatively recently, I haven't tried painting one (a portrait that is, did paint some humans), probably about time to give it a go...
Good stuff!
As usual, I have learned enough to attempt to draw my granddaughter’s favourite basketball player. Don’t have a lot of confidence in my drawing abilities but she seems to think that, for her, I will learn. Thanks, Michele
That is awesome!
They are all helpful, but I especially like the last one of using magazines to practice seeing head shapes. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!