50 Facial Expressions and How to Draw Them | Dani Jones Illustration. Create a Pencil Drawing of a Face. In this demo, I create a charcoal pencil drawing a face. If you haven't drawn a face successfully already, you may want to brush up on basics of drawing a human head before working through this page. I always say that knowing how the human head is structured sets you more at ease when drawing people. The woman I will be drawing is turning away from us toward her right side. As this is to be a pencil drawing of a face, I won't cover anything beyond her head and neck. Drawing a human face is challenging enough, and I do not want to overwhelm you with more than that. I start by 'framing' the head with four marks, at the top of the head, bottom of the chin, and on either side at the widest point.
I use a pencil and my thumb to come up with the ratio between the two distances. Finally, I declare my pencil drawing of the face done for the time being. If you practice often with a pencil, drawing a face should come easily. Explore Drawing And Painting > Draw People > Pencil Drawing Of A Face. How to Draw the Muscles of the Human Body. Historical Anatomies on the Web: Bernardino Genga Home. Figure & Gesture Drawing Tool. Drawing Script. Com.