How to Draw a Male Face - Art Tutorial【My Sketching Technique】

Hello , everyone .

Welcome back to my channel .

I'm brushes and bunnies .

And in this video , I'm going to show you how I draw the male face .

The materials that I used for this tutorial are of course a sketchbook , my mechanical pencil and eraser and a black fine liner that is size 0.05 .

As always , you can find all of the materials down below .

In the video description for this tutorial , I'll be showing you the front facing view , the three quarter view and the profile view .

In all three cases , I'll show you how I structure my guidelines .

And I'll also talk about how I basically build the face with these sort of geometric shapes .

And basically all that you learn within this video can be applied for female faces as well .

Let's start off with the front facing view .

I will always start off with the circle and from the circle , I will basically build all of my guidelines from in the case of the front facing view .

The most important step is to slice off the sides of the circle .

So just draw a line uh from the sides like what I'm doing now and using these lines , you can then split the circle into one thirds .

This one third section will also determine the size of where you want to put the jawline or the chin .

Of course , this is sort of just standard proportions .

But if you wanted to create some unique characters , you could of course , kind of exaggerate some of these uh sections by making the chin longer or shaving off parts of the face so that the face is much more narrow .

Now , these three or four lines that you've drawn horizontally across your face will determine where certain features will go .

For example , the one at the very top is going to be the hairline .

The one in the very center is going to be where the nose will appear .

The one that's between the the very top and the center um is going to be where the eyes are going to be .

And of course , the very last line is going to be where the chin ends .

So you can really use these lines to help structure your phase .

And I feel that this method really works well for me in order to get some really good proportions .

And of course , it also does help if you are drawing from reference photos .

So please do take advantage of this , check out some reference photos online and get familiar with drawing different people , different races , um different unique features and basically adjust your proportions as you go along but you can use these sort of um basic reference lines as a stepping stone to creating a face that is with proportions in terms of the individual facial features , I am going to be or I have already covered some of these in unique or individual video tutorials , like how to draw eyes , how to draw nose , how to draw lips .

I'm of course working on others .

So don't worry , I'll be releasing a video tutorial for lips next week , but I can probably just give you a couple of tips here .

And now for the face , I always tend to start with the nose because the nose for me is a focal point in terms of determining the size of the eyes where the eyes will appear and also the length of the lips .

So I always tend to start with the nose and from there on out , I will continue on with the eyes .

The eye length is typically the same size as the width of the nose .

And I will start drawing the corners of the eyes first because this will align with the tips of the nostrils .

And this is sort of the the kind of guides that I always use for all of my characters as for the lips , I will uh start off with the corners because the corners for me align directly with the eyeballs .

And um I kind of just draw roughly of where I think they will be .

And I typically just align it with the eyes or the irises of , of the eyes .

Um This is how I will determine the length or how wide the lips will be .

But in general , if you're interested in learning how to draw these individual characteristics , then please check out my other video tutorials on my youtube channel .

Again , I'm going to continue doing much more .

I just have like a nose and a eye tutorial for now .

But there will be more coming for the three quarter view and the profile view , I do use the same method with , you know , the circle and kind of um shaving off the sides of the circle and using the the third sort of horizontal lines across the face .

And I use this for all three sort of angles and it does work really , really well .

Um So I won't explain this again , but I can take some time to explain what makes a male face , male , what are the unique characteristics that do make it a male face rather than a female face .

And at the very beginning of learning how to draw male characters .

This was very difficult because I came from , you know , a background of being comfortable with drawing female faces .

So I really had to differentiate between the two to to get a , a unique kind of look .

Uh So I'm gonna give you guys some of the tips that I use to draw male faces while I show you guys , the three quarter view and the profile of view , I believe one of the biggest differences is just the general size or shape of the head itself .

For male faces , they're generally much longer , um , they're much more angular , much more pronounced in terms of the cheekbones and the brow bone and things are just more , not necessarily boxy , but there's a lot of angles at play .

While the female portraits are much softer , they use a lot more , more curves , a lot of more softer curves around the lips , the chin , the jaw , the brows , there's just , there's just a huge difference in that regard .

Um Of course , everyone is different and there will be unique faces out there .

But generally speaking , this is sort of the main differences .

The males are much more angular and um more pronounced while the females are much softer , another really big giveaway for me would be the eyebrows .

I know this nowadays with the trends , it's much different .

Uh you know , with female trends with having thicker eyebrows .

This is sort of the end thing for , for girls .

And um some guys also , you know , they , they pluck their eyebrows or they like them manicured , but generally speaking , kind of the stereotypical differences between female and male are the eyebrows for males .

They're much more kept , they're much thicker bushier and they just , yeah , that's sort of the , the look for a kind of a typical masculine face and for females , you of course , got the thinner eyebrows .

Maybe there's a more pronounced arch or arc .

I don't know how you say that .

Uh So there are typical , there are little minor differences that will either give your character a more feminine look or a more masculine look and the eyebrows is a huge giveaway .

Another really important factor for me are in regards to the eyes .

So for both genders , I do like to differentiate the shape a little bit more for females .

I do like to use a more oval shape and something that is whiter and has longer thicker lashes and it's just , it just looks a little bit more feminine in that regard .

And for male eyes , I do like to change the shape up a bit so that it's more rectangular .

The eyes for males are also a little bit um narrow or I guess you can say it .

I mean , that's just the way I like to draw them because I , I find that attractive in guys when they have narrow eyes for some reason , I don't really know why , but I also like to add a little bit of a lash to their eyes as well .

Uh For , for guys , you want to be careful because you don't want to look like they have mascara on .

So you want to add a loose natural lash but keep them short and don't , you know , draw them so thick either .

So these subtle differences will definitely help you distinguish between the two genders .

There are of course , so many more differences such as , you know , the nose or the lips or the cheekbones .

There's a lot of things you can get into detail regarding the differences between female and male faces .

And I think I'm actually gonna do a video uh sometime during this month about it and just talk about the key differences and how you can differentiate between the two genders .

I think this is a pretty interesting topic actually and it would be kind of fun to deep dive into it .

So let me know down below in the video , comment or in the comments if you're interested in seeing a video about this topic in general , if you would like to know more or require some more help on how to draw male faces , I will be posting some helpful step by step guides with photo references up on my Patreon .

This will only be ava available to my patreons , of course , and they will be downloadable so you guys can download it and put it on your computer and use it whenever you need any sort of help to drawing a male face .

Of course , all of my links including my Patreon or down below my video description .

So if you're interested , do check it out .

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Uh Today is April 8th and it is the last day I will be announcing the giveaway winner on April 15th .

So stay tuned for that .

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It's a lot , a lot of fun .

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The instructions are down below in the video description as well if you want to know more without further ado I hope you guys like this tutorial and yeah , I want to wish you a lovely day and keep drawing and never give up .

Bye .