How to Draw Babies, Teens, & Adults [FEMALE]

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All right , let's get back to drawing idea number eight , an exercise which came from Tom's skillshare class where you draw a random shape that has less than 10 sides and then try to fit a person in there using bold confident lines .

I really love his drawing style .

So I'm going to try drawing like him .

This stylized type of drawing is very new to me and I find it so freeing because I can just bend limbs in inhumanly ways and really stretch my imagination .

Every new random shape that I make is unique .

So I get a brand new challenge every time and then just figuring out where each body part will fit and being forced to play things by ear , makes the finished illustration .

So satisfying .

This is a super enjoyable creative exercise that you really should try .

Uh And then you can use the bottom of the circle as the perfect resting spot of the nose .

Um Again , I could spend like a whole video just talking on how to draw the individual lines of the nose .

But uh just as a pointer , keep in mind that when you're drawing a baby's nose , the bridge of the nose up here is almost not drawn at all .

Uh It's uh that's only happens as the person gets older that we start to um draw those lines in more clearly .

Uh notice the line for the mouth that I put in here , the distance that it is much closer to the nose than to the chin .

Um And as I looked at photographs of babies' mouths , I noticed that actually a baby's mouth uh seems to have a different shape uh from a grownup's mouth .

It's kind of , I think that baby fat is sort of pushing in on the lips and causing the mouth to pucker a little bit .

I just discovered that I love drawing hands , but specifically in this style .

And I also love drawing toes .

There's something kind of funny about them .

I really hope you try this one because it's a lot of fun and super satisfying .

So what do you like to draw when you're bored ?

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And uh also uh something to keep in mind is that the um eyebrows of a baby are tend to be very light , you know , the , they only thicken up later in life .

And so you don't want to get too carried away with drawing dark lines when you do the eyebrows of a baby .

Um And uh uh a as for doing the irises themselves , uh I'm gonna just uh do a light indication of them for now , like I said , there's gonna be a lot of uh time lapse in this video and that's when I'm gonna get into doing the details .

But in a way , I think it's best for you to um think of this as an overview video and uh uh not think , oh , this is the way to draw a baby all the time .

Oh , no , of course not .

Every baby is gonna , gonna look different .

So um it's probably best that I don't get too hung up on the details anyway , but let's go ahead and do the ears notice that they start , uh , near the top of the eyes , they come down to around where the nose is , uh , as a guideline .

And I think after I've got that in place , the last thing that I want to do is show you where the hairline goes .

It's basically , uh , between these two points here , just draw a line there and that's gonna show you where the hairline , you know , begins at the top of the forehead .

And beyond that , I think I probably should just go ahead and kick this into time lapse to uh finish it off and , uh , but I will come back to give you some final pointers once I uh complete the illustration .

All right .

So just gonna add a few little final touches here .

Um I , I wanted to say a word about the shading .

Notice how I put quite a lot of shading right in here .

Uh a a around the forehead area and down where normally the bridge of the nose would go .

I think that's something fairly unique to babies that the , the , this roundness to the forehead .

And as I said , the , the bridge of the nose is uh almost non-existent or , you know , very minimal .

Uh And then also a lot of shading down here by the cheeks will help , uh give that sort of baby face , baby fat kind of look .

Um But let's go ahead and move on to the next uh drawing the , the teenage drawing uh of the face and uh see what changes uh as we do that .

OK .

So again , I've given myself a little head start here .

We have that same circle with the two lines .

Um uh Notice the shape of the face is a lot leaner .

Now , we're not gonna have that sort of u shape that we had before , but the mouth , it's fairly consistent .

I find uh always a little closer to the bottom of the circle than it is to the chin .

And again , you're gonna have to pay real close attention to the eyes , to the size and to their placement .

They are taking up considerably less uh uh space uh in terms of uh the inside of that circle than they used to .

And of course , as we move to the adult , uh they grow even smaller .

So basic as a basic rule of thumb , the uh larger the eyes , the more the character looks like a baby or a child , the , the smaller they are in proportion to the head , uh the more grown up they look .

So anyway , uh I'm gonna go ahead and start adding a little more uh detail here to the eyes .

One thing that uh I find is the baby with the baby's face .

You don't see so much of the upper eyelid uh as the uh uh person grows older , then you get this second line above each eye uh to indicate the folding of the eye lid uh , notice what happens to the eye brows this time .

They , uh , are maybe a little more of a distance away from the eyes , a little closer to that , uh , middle line there , that sort of horizontal line that we had .

And you're always paying real close attention to the distance between the eye , the width of the eyebrows .

You don't want them too wide , not too narrow .

Uh , and , uh , as I always have to say , you know , every face is different , so everyone has different , uh shaped eyebrows and so forth .

You uh can study photographs to figure out the style that you want to use for your character .

Um , uh notice again , the nose will neatly fall at the bottom of this uh circle , but this time , we can start to give it a little more definition , especially in the area of the um , bridge of the nose , which , uh as I said before , for the baby , you really don't see the bridge of the nose at all for the teen character or this might even end up looking a little more like a preteen uh character .

Um You start to get a little bit of shading in here , uh for revealing the bridge of the nose , but you don't go crazy with that .

You can hold off on the really defining the nose for when you draw , uh this character as an adult .

Um I talked quite a bit about the baby's lips and the shape uh I noticed um uh from a baby to a teenager , the shape of the lips changes quite a bit .

Uh It gets a little more relaxed looking , it doesn't have that scrunched up , uh look and I really wish I could go into a sort of a line by line uh for everything here .

But uh if you want to just shout out in the comments , section , comments , uh section , the things that you would like me to go into more detail um in a future video , like I could do one just on the mouth alone .

Uh All this different stuff , we could sort of break into its individual components , but just a quick word about the nose again .

Um Even uh when as the person gets older , you are trying to draw the nose with as few lines as possible , I think if you start uh delineating every single last line of the nose , uh It , the more , I don't know , the more lines you put in there , the uglier it looks , I find uh in the , in the art of it , it seems to me is sort of suggesting the nose without drawing uh each and every line or trying to define it too much .

Uh Notice we had the baby fat issue last time this time .

Uh We definitely do not want to have that um for making this look like a teenager .

Um the , the chin , it becomes part of the exact same line of the rest of the jaw .

And uh so that's one thing and interestingly when we go to the grown up version , we may see that sort of reverse a little bit .

So , but uh I'm gonna go ahead and do the ears , the indication of the ears uh on the side here , um pretty , pretty uh consistent from one face to the other starts at the top of the eyes comes down to around uh , the nose and , uh , the hairline as well , fairly consistent between these two , spots , maybe a touch closer to the center , uh , horizontal line this time , uh , for putting in the hair and I'm doing my best to make this look like it's the same character .

So you're gonna see as I go into time lapse here that I try to make the hair style .

Does , does anyone's hair stay exactly the same from baby from when they're a baby to when they're a grown up ?

I don't know .

Uh , we're gonna find out , but I'm gonna try to draw this character a as if she has the exact same hairstyle , but let's go ahead and kick it in the time lapse .

All right .

So there you have it , uh , blew through a lot of stuff there .

Sorry about that .

But , uh , I do want to try to cover , uh , all three different faces in this video and that's why , uh , so much of it is gonna have to be done in time lapse but just quickly to say , um , you'll notice that , uh , as I said before the nose is getting more delineated here , you have a little bit of a suggestion of the bridge of the nose .

Um , the eyes , I fear I got the eyes off a little and my apologies there .

If one of these eyes is slightly lower than the other , um , too late .

Now it's in the video .

Oh , well , anyway , um , we're gonna move on to the last part of the video , I'm gonna draw the uh adult uh version of the same character and you'll see which uh lines are most key in adding a bit of age and uh sort of changing the proportions of the face .

Ok .

So we're back again with the sort of pre drawn lines of the circle with the two lines .

Uh We've got the shape of the jaw here and notice if you compare it to the teenage uh shape that uh we , we've added a little weight , I guess to her jaw and it's coming down maybe forming a little more of an angle uh at this age .

And um if you go back and study the placement of the eyes from the other two , these eyes are smaller in proportion to the rest of the circle and uh it seems to me that they are a little closer to that uh uh middle line there uh compared to the other two .

And uh let's go ahead and start adding some definition to things here .

Um I'll start with the eyes , as I said , they seem to be sort of uh and this may be just artists shorthand .

Uh The eyes are a little more like half closed .

I think that maybe sort of conveys this feeling of uh age .

Um you know , some of the stuff , it's like I'm trying to do this realistically at the same time , I'm kind of doing like artists , traditional techniques of making uh someone look older versus um maybe strictly realistic um differences between the two .

I mean , in , in reality , the difference between a teenage face and a say early middle age , uh those differences can be quite subtle and um the artist's job I think is maybe to exaggerate things in a little bit to make it extra clear .

Um So let's go ahead and uh uh do the eyebrows this time , the eyebrows are very close .

I'm finding to that uh horizontal line compared to what we had before .

I think what happens is that the uh the forehead , uh you know , you saw as a baby , the forehead is a very large part of the face .

And as your character gets older , uh the uh forehead increasingly become , becomes proportionally smaller and that's sort of like a signal uh to the viewer that you are drawing a an older character .

Um I'm gonna go ahead and drop in the um irises , of course , uh scientifically they tell you that the eye , the actual eyeball is the one part of the face that does not change at all .

Right .

And that's why babies have a seemingly large eyes .

The , I mean , the head is physically smaller but the actual , uh iris , uh , if I'm not mistaken , is precisely the same size uh over the span of your life .

Um Let's go ahead and draw the nose here .

We're gonna get considerably more definition .

Uh I find that that's one of the key things uh in uh conveying age .

Uh And , you know , based on reality as you get older , your nose gets more defined uh more and more .

Uh And so the artist , of course , your job is to go ahead and get those lines in there and not be so shy about sort of suggesting the nose , but go ahead and draw it in there .

Um Of course , I'm being a little bit cautious because you wanna make sure you get all these lines in just the right place , get the , the width of the bridge of the nose and I can kind of finalize this stuff later .

Um This 1 may be this lesson here may be a little different from the other two in that some of the key lines that reveal the age um don't really come in until the end of the process .

So I may have to uh sort of zoom through things and then come back to , to show you the what are for me , the two most key lines for making this woman look um middle aged rather than just say in her twenties .

Um But I think you can see a certain angularity coming into the face as we uh make this character look older or try to .

And uh so let's go ahead and do that .

I'm gonna drop in the ears that remains pretty consistent from one age to the other , the location uh of the ears .

And um let's uh do one final thing , get in that line of the hair coming in again , right around between these two lines here and then , yeah , let me zoom through most of this in time lapse , but I'm really not done with this in terms of showing the age of this character .

I'm gonna come back at the end to show you a couple of key lines uh that will really uh finish it off in terms of showing how old she is .

All right .

So , uh as I promised , we're going to try to uh age this character further .

I would say even at this stage , she looks like she's well under her twenties , uh you know , noticeably older than uh the teenage version that we did before .

But here's uh one of the keys , I think if we define the chin , just a little bit more , I see cartoonists uh doing this a lot , just a , just a hint of definition on the chin can go a long way towards , uh , a aging , your character and , uh , of course , um , wrinkles around the eyes , uh , are going to add some age .

Um , but you don't want to go , you know , extreme with that .

It's easy to get carried away .

I would say just one or two , slight indications of , uh , wrinkles around the eyes , you know , the , the classic crow's feet , you add just a little bit of that on the sides and uh your character will immediately begin to look more like uh a motherly character , let's say .

Um And uh so yeah , there you go .

There's my advice on how to uh uh well , or , or how to see the differences , I think you would have to say with this video to see the differences between these different age uh groups .

Uh And then maybe in the future , I can do a how to video for each one of these and really take it step by step line by line and show you how to do it .

Well , let's go ahead and pull things back and uh have some final words before I wind this video down .

All right .

Well , there you have it .

My video showing the same character at three different points in her life .

I hope you enjoyed that .

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Um But for now , I want to wind down my video the way I always do by thanking people who have bought my books , Miky Falls , uh the graphic novel series as well as Brodie's Ghost to this new one , scholastic edition available at book fairs right now .

Very excited about that .

But let's go ahead and lay down the pencil .

As I always do .

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