How to Draw Sexy Comic Faces

Hello , this is Neil , the art instructor at Master Pay now dot com and instructor at dot com .

I'm bringing you here a free lesson on how to draw a sexy comic face .

And in this lesson , we're going to go through several things , one how to get the basic construct of the face down so that it looks sexy and then how to actually draw the eyes and the nose and the mouth in a sexy fashion like I have here , but maybe even more comic as these , these um the jaw and chin are a little bit too realistic , I think for the comic style that we're going to be going for .

So we'll be drawing a slightly different face in this here .

But we're going to learn how to draw like sexy features , how to draw the sexy nose , the eyes , where to plug them into how to , how to fit those features into it .

So one thing you want to practice is drawing eyes and noses and miles separately .

But then you need to be able to figure out how do you plug those into the , into the face and that's what this whole entire free lesson is going to show you how to do .

So let's go ahead and get started doing that .

I'm using manga studio five .

Ex you can actually just use manga studio five .

It's just as good .

Trust me , all the tools and stuff are the same , right ?

So anyway , first thing I do is I start with the perfect circle .

Um If you're not good at drawing perfect circles , you can always use a circle to in whatever program you have .

Usually you hold down the shift key to drag it out and make a perfect circle .

You can see that um my freehand sketch here is pretty , pretty spot on to a perfect circle .

Um It takes , you know , drawing circles a lot before you can get down to that point where you can just kind of draw a pretty decent circle .

Next is you're going to cut it in half again , if you needed to use perfect measurements for this , that's fine .

At first you want to get perfect measurements because you want to train your brain to not be sloppy .

You want to train your brain to be accurate on point .

The only way to do that is is doing perfect measurements with rulers on a piece of paper or with using tools and whatever program you're using next is you want to cut off the edges here and , and I just kind of , I kind of wing this , you know , I kind of just that's about how much I cut off .

You know , you want to just get a feel for how much you cut off .

The next thing we're gonna , we're gonna take this , we're going to divide this right here in half and this is actually a good way to know how to cut in half .

That is if you take the distance from here to here in the circle and you divide that in half , let's see here .

I'm gonna try to get as close as I can to half .

That's not quite half , I'll pay attention to this line and this line up here .

So if I just take that line kind of right in half , somewhere around there , something like that , it's going to erase some of this .

OK .

Anyway , so there we go .

Now we got that to fight in half the next step , then the nose is come down here .

I'm just kind of draw a circle there just to know that my nose is going to go there .

Once you have this divide in half , you kind of where that line intersects the circle .

You can kind of , you know , cut a little bit earlier than that and that , so you can kind of tell how far in you want to cut that off .

Let's go ahead and raise the edges of here now , so this line here is gonna be the eye line .

This right here is not gonna be your eyebrow line , believe it or not .

Um , your eyebrows usually aren't going to go that high .

The next thing we need to do is figure out how do we figure out how , how many eyes across we have ?

Well , typically , uh , a real figure , human being has about five eyes across .

However , in comic books , it's , it's four eyes across and sometimes a little bit more than four , like four and three quarters .

It's very rare that in comic books , you draw five eyes across .

Also notice if you take some accurate measurements of people that have , have a perfect um front photograph of their face or get some friends that are very good looking and take just a perfect front view of their face .

And if you do exact measurements , you'll notice that they're usually around 4.5 eyes to four and three quarter eyes across .

It's very rare that very good looking people are five eyes across something to keep in mind as well .

That's not to say that 55 people can't be good looking .

I'm not putting one down .

I'm just , I'm just stating what you can see if you do some research and study , right ?

So next thing we can do then and we can divide these squares in half .

This is how we can get our four eyes across .

We simply just divide those squares in half , then we know that we have four equal parts , but they're not exactly where we want them to be .

So all we need to do is just take one of these measurements , which is here and here .

If we take that measurement , we have a measurement of our eye .

Now , all we have to do now is move it over .

Now on a piece of paper , you can actually draw on a separate piece of paper or you can take your pencil and use your thumb , like take your tip of your pencil and put it here and then mark with your thumb here .

So you're holding it and you get a measurement that way , it's really easy to measure on paper and then , and then make the measurement marks and move it over to where it's here and here .

So now I'm just going to divide this in half another way .

Another easy way to do it is also just dividing this in half .

Now , now I got my marking here to buy this in half .

I got my marking there after a while , you know , you won't have to do these types of measurements at all .

You'll just have a good feeling for how far away things should be .

But at first , you definitely want to measure it absolutely perfectly because you want to train your brain to get those exact measurements down .

So that way when you do this , draw freehand , it'll come out nice , nice because you'll have it memorized .

Now , the height of the eye can vary , but typically the height of the eye is going to be , if you take this length here and divide it three times , just imagine this whole height that we have from there to there .

That's , that's why we also like this method .

The eye is gonna fit above this line .

By the way , it's not going to be in the middle of this line .

So in this method , the whole this will be the bottom of the eye and the top of the eyes and come above here .

So it's going to take up about 1.5 of these segments .

So you have to divide that into three .

He's gonna raise some of these lines .

Now , for now , I'm just going to have a basic oval shape for my eye .

And this comes from the edge to the edge of the eye .

This doesn't include the eyelid and this is where a lot of people make a mistake .

What they , what they do is that when they draw eyes , eyes look a lot bigger than they actually are because you have the eyelid that comes out farther in the little cuticle , not cut part came in that part that's on the outside where the eye lid comes out right there .

And that makes the eye look a lot bigger than it actually is , right ?

So that's that little in part right there .

And this way here becomes the bridge of the nose and the bridge of the nose is right about here .

You have a little bit of shadow on each side of the bridge of the nose .

So that's about how big the bridge nose is .

And this is that Superman wedge shape , right ?

As you know , kinda out me and a of mine , I have been teaching for a long time , have come to that .

We just call it the Superman shape , right ?

That's about how big it is .

So if you wondering how big the Superman shape is , how you tell that is by first getting the accurate measurement of your eyes down , once your eyes are in there and they're accurate , then it's just a matter of , you know , that your eyelids come out a little bit further than that .

And then about that same distance from there to there , you have there to there and that's where you have the bridge and this is like part of the side of the nose that we can't see because the nose is shaped like a rap comes up , comes down like that , right ?

And if it's , it's also going to be shaped like this , if it's more rounded , you know , but you can think of it as a , as a skate ramp .

That is , if you're on a skateboard , you can ride jump land over here .

That's the top of the ramp right there .

If you think about the shape of the face that way in three dimensions , it really helps you when you're drawing .

Now , next is the placement of the eyebrows , the eyebrows actually usually start right here at the , at the Superman shape where the top of the shape goes and the eyebrows , everyone's different , but some people almost have a unibrow where the eyebrows come way in here like this and they always come to the outside usually of the eye .

And so you can have the eyebrows being way in like this .

You also have the eyebrows where they're , you know , higher or lower .

It all depends on the expression of making all that kind of stuff .

But I like typically come almost straight up from the edge of here , not the edge of the eye here , but from the part of the eyelid that comes down right here , just come straight up here .

And I like to make my my eyebrows right there .

Personally , everyone's going to have a different view on what they think about eyebrows .

You can start with eyebrows lower to the eye or are up higher to eye .

It all depends one way that I like to draw eyebrows look sexy and cool is closer down by the bridge of the eye and then kind of come across like this and kind of come up at an angle and then come down this eyebrow shape right here has served many comic women variations of it thereof .

It looks really nice .

So we're going to go with something like that to save time if you actually wanted to , you can just redraw this over again .

On the other side , copy and paste it is what , what I meant to say on the other side that we can save time .

I'm just gonna kind of redraw it quickly like this .

There you have us now we have , have our eyes and maybe this wouldn't go quite , you know , that far out .

But you do want to make sure actually it's not right because you want to build a draw like a diagonal line , build kind of curve it right here .

Uh because of that flush between the eyebrow and the eye , we're going to change the shape of the eyes still to more of a comic look .

But still you want to make sure you have most of the eye .

If you draw a straight line through the through right here , more of the eye is on top than it is on the bottom of that line .

So if you draw from the corner of the eye to the corner of the eye and draw , draw a line like this , this is shorter and this is taller and that's a general idea of how to draw sexy eyeballs .

Now , the main shape that's used is just kind of like , I don't know what to call it .

It's like a , um , it's like this .

What is the shape right here ?

It's like a slanted , a slanted um , square like if you were to draw a rectangle like this and then you were to push , let's say these these two sticks can be moved .

You were to slant it this way , you can slant that stick and that stick and then the top would move over with it like a skew .

That's the basic shape you're going to use for , for a sexy comic eyeball .

Of course , you're gonna , you're gonna , you're gonna tune it up a little bit , but that's the main shape .

So it's going to come up right here , kind of come straight across like so come down , come across and up right here , just a little bit like that .

And then you kind of shape it , but that's the basic shape that you're going to use .

If you stick to a shape very similar to this , you'll find yourself drawing very sexy comic characters .

And so these are little tricks of the trade that you pick up after , you know , years of , of drawing comic book characters or you watch someone's video like mine and then you're like , oh , hey , cool .

Right .

So that's the beginning of drawing sexy eyes right there .

Most of the work of drawing a sexy eye is actually right there .

It's already pretty much done for us .

The rest of it's pretty easy to add into .

If you can get to this stage here , you can draw a woman with sexy eyes , right ?

I'm gonna kind of still leave that the sketchiness in here for the nose bridge .

The next is adding makeup , of course , pretty much every single comic book character as female in the world has sexy makeup on and typically how that's done and we'll do that actually with the inks and ink brush here .

But just because it's easier you pull down hard like this and across like this , that's the basic shape that the makeup usually takes .

And sometimes that's all that comic books will do .

They simply shape this out like so and that's it , that , that's , that's all they do for makeup .

Sometimes they don't add any , any lashes or anything like that .

You can also make it a little bit darker here .

You can add more makeup , less makeup that's up to you on what kind of character it is you're designing and then you might draw just a little bit of eyelashes and maybe a few coming out this way , then coming up and in manga studio , if you get the right brush , it's really cool to be able to draw eyelashes really easy .

Like I'm doing here , you can either start from the top light and then push harder as you come down or you can start hard and then come light as you go up .

It's really up to you .

Um What I like to do when I draw eyelashes though is I like to just hint at them .

And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come right here , add just a few , a few more like that .

Oops , I don't like to add many just a few more over here .

Nice little eyelashes , pretty little eyelashes .

We'll just , we'll just do one more right here .

Just happy .

I just land the happy little eyelash right there .

That's where it belongs .

Just right there .

Now , if you guys get that reference , uh Bob Ross , if you never watched that painter , it's been a happy little tree right over here .

Yeah , it just sits right there .

Nice and naturally .

Right now we're on our way to having sexy eyes here and sometimes I wanna make , I wanna make a separate layer .

I'll just like draw right over my , my sketching layer and kind of leave some of that the sketchiness behind .

I might draw a couple extra parts of the eye eyebrows .

You know , comic characters typically have solid eyebrows .

You don't , you don't draw each individual strand even when painting .

Actually , the trick is to use a lighter color and then just a few dark strands here and there .

And the illusion is that you give the illusion that you actually drew a bunch of a bunch of hairs there when you actually did it .

Right .

So we're , we're getting close to um you know , where we're going to have a nice sexy woman .

As you can see , she's starting to pan out and you can see when we're done , we're gonna have a nice sexy comic book character .

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We'll take this basic face here , we'll kind of change some of the styles um and add some different cool effects like different noses , different eyes and stuff like that , that give different types of sexiness .

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Next is the nose .

Now that the distance between , you know , the eyes and the nose is quite short , um , for not only real people but also comic books , you'd be surprised how short that distance is .

Even if a real person take some um , get , get some photographs online of , of pretty women and look at them from the front view , find front view pictures and then you'll see if you do the measurements that they're actually quite , quite close to the nose .

Right .

So there's much , there's so many different ways to draw noses , but one way I like to draw nodes is , is like the cute button nose .

So to do that , it's very simple .

All you have to do is first think about the nostril area to the flare .

And I'm going to have the idea that a human , a typical human nose is going to come all the way out here to the edges of her , of the center of her eye .

I'm not gonna draw my nose that big because it's not very common in comic books to do that .

Instead I'm gonna go more like let's say this is the bridge of the nose .

I'm gonna make my nose out here just a little bit thicker than that .

And that's about as thick as I want to make my nose kind of erase some of that .

So we can see here .

I'm gonna go ahead and sketch this in first with pencil .

So right here at the line is we want to start drawing your nose .

You kind of come up here , pick a place where you want the nozzles to be .

I like to come somewhere around here as far as thickness goes and then you want to kind of come upward and curve it like this .

So kind of come up and then curve it down a little bit back down toward the line and then kind of come back up and curve right here like this .

So it kind of has a curve shape like that .

And this is a , I think it's a really nice way to make cute comic book noses .

There's so many different ways to do it .

This is , this is just one of them and you can darken it right here .

We'll go back over with ink and then what you want to do is kind of make another line coming right off the nostril .

This will be a lighter thinner line like this and kind of come over , this is going to kind of shape the inside of the nose and then it's going to come right here and this is going to separate that middle part of your nose when I got an update here .

I sorry about that .

Um , that might have paused there for a moment .

I had an update in the background and I had to say yes to it or no to it .

Otherwise it won't let me continue using my computer right now .

Bridge of nose is going to come up to that part here and you can make that part thinner or thicker .

It's really up to you and you can also even have it kind of even come like this to where the nose this is the main part of the nose and this right here kind of flattens out up there .

Think about it in three dimensions whenever you're drawing , even if you're just drawing a comic book character that , that seems to be more flat .

You still want to keep in mind the three dimensions of everything .

Again , this kind of comes up right here and down this , all this underpart here is gonna be like in shadow .

That's right .

That's pretty much it .

Then next thing I want to do is I want to draw a diagonal line , not from the very edge of the nostril , but from not from the edge of the flare , but from the edge of the nostril which ends right here , just kind of draw a curved line kind of coming inward .

Let's kind of draw this in right here a little bit more .

And then we're gonna take a curve line and kind of come in anywhere like this .

And this is kind of gonna meet almost like a triangle like that underneath the nose , draw very lightly and then shade all this in .

That's like part of that is the under part of your nose .

We can start erasing some of these lines now as we move along with our drawing right .

And that makes a cute nose and then we're gonna go ahead and make this very thin line .

I'm gonna just lightly touch this with the pencil or the pin brush here .

Now , if you want what pin brush I'm using , I'm actually using a pin brush called Bob's Big Belly .

And here's the settings on if you want to see some of them .

Um That's how the arch is .

And then for those that , you know , know , manga studio , click on the tool setting .

You have different tool settings here .

It's kind of almost an oval shape , not quite go through some of these settings anyway , it's kind of hard to make this brush from scratch .

So what I recommend doing is just buying it .

And unfortunately I forget the guy that , that has it .

Now , um that friend of mine , maybe he'll , maybe he'll post a link to it or I don't know if you can post a link on Google Plus , I think you can .

Um So in Google Plus on this video , post a link to it .

If I remember the , the name of the brushes , I actually let me go ahead and find him real quick .

Hold on .

Right .

So the brushes when I purchased them , it was called friend in .

So I imagine if you type in like friend and brushes , you'll find them .

It's Frendenn as in Nancy .

So friend in .

And I think if you type that in somewhere you should find it on Google .

Um But anyway , so that's the brush and it's part of his uh his pin pins there .

I like that .

There's a few , only a few brushes I liked out of his set .

Notice if I keep some of that natural pencil work in there , it kind of looks cool um to the to the comic book , right ?

So , like I said , we're really on our way here to drawing a sexy females .

The next thing we want to do is figure out the mouth and the jaw .

Now , this part , this part right here is , is easy , I think , but it's also one of the hardest parts of the face to master .

And it really just depends on whether the mouth is open or closed , how long it's going to be .

Now , one thing that's very different if you , if you already have it mastered how to draw a realistic face , drawing a comic book face might be a little difficult at first because it's a little different .

What happens is because you don't have a lot of shading or any shading at all .

Usually in a comic book face , the chin is always shorter .

You don't have as much of a chin .

It's much thinner usually in comics than you'll see in a realistic face .

So over here , this is a realistic face and chin .

This is quite a long distance and it's quite thick here , but that's realistic proportions .

However , we're gonna take that and we're gonna make it a lot thinner .

So coming down here , let's just kind of first imagine the distance .

This is how I like to do it .

I think this is an easy way to do it .

At least you take the distance from the bottom of the nose down to where the top of the upper lip is going to be .

That distance is about the same as this nose .

So if this is the part of the button , the top button of the nose right here , another way to do this , I guess is to take from the top of these eyebrows , from the top of your eyes here and from the bottom of the nose , let's divide that in half , divide this in half , divide this and half like that gives you four equal divisions , 1/4 of that division right there .

You take that division and equal it down here and that right there is how long your filter pretty , pretty much is when you're drawing a , a comic book character , you can make it a little bit shorter .

But that's usually about how , how long it is from here .

I know that my lip is going to come either down to the center of the pupil or even shorter .

It just depends on the person .

So I'm gonna just kind of rough in a basic idea of the upper lip there .

Now , you can decide how big you want the upper lip to be .

That's up to you right now .

We're just sketching in something .

So we have something , something to go by .

Then I'm going to sketch in a bottom lip here and I want that to be a little bit bigger than the top lip because this is almost always the case with comic book characters .

And I know I get complaints , you know , like , oh , that's not how a realistic woman looks , you know , they're all perfect and don't have , you know , perky boobs and that's true .

But in the comic book realm , that's true .

So , um , take that for what it is good or bad , you know , that's just something that's accepted .

If you want to get hired as a comic book artist , you have to draw according to their standards .

The next thing we're going to do and you can also make this a little bit longer if you want to .

There are , there are variations in faces .

I'm just giving you one example of a face , draw the line that goes straight across the center of your mouth here and comes out like this .

The next thing I want you to do is draw a line right here to the edge of the , of the face we have and draw it straight down like this .

So this is a good way to get the angle of the cheeks here , the cheeks are going first , you have this kind of rounded part up here , this is part of the eyebrow and it kind of comes up right here and rounds off .

So it's going to kind of come right here .

This is the end at the top of the eye and it kind of rounds off like this and it comes out to you that's a little exaggerated , but that's pretty much what happens .

It's just not that exaggerated and it kind of comes out to the cheek now as the cheek rounds out right here , which is right where , where this eye line is here , it starts to come off from that and round out a little bit .

You can imagine it , you know , coming to the edge of the mouth even like this right there .

That gives you an idea of where your your cheek is going to be .

But if you take it from the straight line coming down , make an absolute straight line like that , take that straight line coming down and come at about a 45 degree angle or so something around there that and that comes right right here to the center line of the mouth .

Is that right ?

There is pretty much the angle of the face of a nice , you know , more toward perfection , comic book face , at least what has been accepted as perfection of comic book faces .

So it doesn't mean that it's perfect face .

Everyone , everyone's different .

Some people might say it's ugly .

Some people might think it's beautiful .

None of that matters .

I'm just , I'm just showing you one standard .

You can easily deviate from the standard .

But if you take this as a basic measurement , you're on your way to drawing beautiful comic women and then you can change it up a little bit and get different kinds of women out of it .

The next is you don't want to have too much space between the chin and , and the bottom lip for this particular lesson .

I'm going to keep the mouth closed .

We'll change the lip shape .

That's just the basic lips .

We'll change them in just a second .

But in the extended lesson , if you sign up for that and then you'll get the email for it .

Um That extended lesson is going to go into more shapes and stuff like that for different lips , mouse , mouse open and things like that and different characters , we're gonna make it a little bit longer than this one here .

So what I like to do is I like to take basically the height of the mouth and just extend it down right here and that pretty much is the length of the chin .

Again , chins are pretty short in comic characters make it quite thin , probably about the same width as the nose .

That's going to be the , you know , the absolute width of the chin there from here .

Round a curve that comes first , imagine a straight line like that .

Now , that's not quite how you want your character to look .

So what you're gonna do is right here where that center of your mouth is , that's where the jaw begins to bend and it bends the curve .

And so you want to kind of round it out a little bit though like this and then it's going to come to the chin .

So I might make a little bit longer than I had it .

You can even , you know , have the chin come down , it's up to you , how you , how you do that , I'm gonna just kind of come straight across like this .

You can even have the chin kind of come down like almost like an elf chin like that , you know , right here , kind of come in and kind of curve and come back up and that's a different kind of , you know , female to draw than what I'm drawing again , first match in a straight line .

Then you want to kind of start curving this line .

What's really cool about the centi is I'm able to turn my centi like a piece of paper .

And so right now I'm actually turning my whole tablet here that I'm actually drawing on a , on a screen .

That's what a scent is .

You're drawing on an actual screen itself , which is really cool and feels very natural .

It's very , I think it's very much worth the money , but it is really expensive and it's really hard to save up money and everything to afford one .

Now , my eyes might look a little bit big , I think even for this comic book facing character , if that happens , it's not that big of a deal , it's not the end of the world one .

You can , you know , if you're using pencil paper , just , you know , trace over all this with another piece of paper and then just draw the eyes a little bit smaller .

If you're using something like manga studio or something else , you have a tool , like a marquee tool where you can grab it and then you can change the size of the eye really , really easily and make sure that you keep the eye on the same line right here though .

Don't change the shape like , don't when you change the shape of the eye or the size of the eye , don't change the uh height of I like where , where it's located .

And actually to make this a little bit easier , what I'm gonna do is I'm going to actually delete this .

I just so I make sure they're exactly the same height or , or they're exactly the same .

I to do that , you simply use the marquee tool to go around this eyeball .

Now go edit , copy , edit , paste , edit , transform , flip horizontally , click this little circle over here , say OK .

And then we're going to use this tool here to move the I use the shift key after you start to move to keep it on that straight line and we'll bring it over here so that it's the same distance apart .

We'll make sure that the edges of the eye pretty much match up to the same part of the nose here .

Click , OK ?

Click this little icon here and gets rid of it , gets rid of the marquee .

What's really cool about moles to you too is if you keep choosing the exact same size eraser brushes after a while , I'll memorize that and it'll , when you start going back to the like from pencil eraser , it'll start picking that size after a while .

If I keep picking 10 enough times it'll eventually memorize that and it'll start going .

Ok .

He wants a size 10 , that's what he uses the most .

So let's go ahead and start giving that as a default , right ?

So this is a really good , really good face structure here .

And now we got to do is make it , make the lips , the shape we want them to want them to be .

There's all different kinds of lips to choose from .

I think some really cool people that I use as inspiration for comic books um is Michelle Pfeiffer's lips .

Um This is a matter of fact , what I have right here is kind of Michelle Pfeiffer lips right here where it kind of has that look like this and it kind of comes over .

It's a center line right here .

It kind of comes down to a point , almost comes up .

It's not a point over here and I like using that , that kind of lip .

It's really , I think it's sexy .

But um Jessica Alba's lips are another interesting one I like to look at to study anyway and you can also use makeup lips .

But what I like to do is uh for , for these lips , I'm going to make kind of taller lips where we're gonna add a longer a fatter fum .

It's not gonna be like there's the , you know , the butterfly lips or not .

I mean , the heart lips where they kind of have a shape like this and they kind of ground out and come down like this , you know , those lips are kind of cool and then they kind of curve out .

You can do lips like that or , or um or not , it's up to you and kind of what you want to do for now though , I'm gonna teach you how to do these lips right here .

We're going to come off with our is be kind of almost flat , come up to little points and then we're going to kind of curve our way down and then out like this .

I might make it a little bit wider and all this makes a difference .

How , why do you make this curve ?

All that makes a difference on the kind of mouth you can end up with .

So keep that in mind as you're drawing your lips , I'm gonna make dark circles here for , you know , showing the edge of the , of the mouth that that's the darkest part of the lips .

Now , I can decide on the inside shape .

Now , typically you have this kind of shape here and then the two shapes that come off of it and that make up your , your basic lip .

And so you can just go by this line like this , you have your lip , but I don't like to do that because I don't think it looks all that great .

Sometimes .

Just having , you know , a straight line here looks good .

Sometimes kind of coming up like that shape that I already have there in pencil .

Kind of like that shape looks good .

It really depends on what you want .

What I'm gonna do though is give her just a slight end .

It right here , almost like a , a point right here , just very , very tiny .

And I'm gonna kind of come up and over like this .

This is a pretty popular lip that you'll see in comic books , right ?

That would be a popular upper lip there .

Let's go in and erase some of the pencil work I have underneath here and sometimes , you know , leaving certain things out too is sexy .

So it just kind of making that dark and leaving out that center all together .

You can even have her mouth just like slightly open here , kind of , uh maybe make it a little bit dark right here .

Actions make it a lot darker right here to kind of show like almost like the , the mouth is slightly open right there .

And that's one thing you can do .

It kind of changes the upper shape of the lip just a little bit you can also come in here and even change the shape of the upper lip even more than what we have here .

And this way we can come in and add the fil and make a dent in it a little bit more and make the points come out a little bit more pointy .

So there's all different ways you can change lip shapes .

I actually have an older video too showing how to just draw sexy lips .

And I think that video is still relevant today .

It's pretty old , but you can just search for it on my youtube channel and find it and I'm going to just fix this up a little bit as I zoom in and out .

I can see whether or not it's working if you happen to have two monitors like I do , you can actually take this off and put it on the other monitor and blow this part up so you can see her face larger .

That way you can get a , you know , a good look at it on how it looks when .

So when you're zoomed in like this , you can see the whole face on the other monitor and make sure that it's working out correctly for you .

Now , there's so many different types of bottom lips to draw what we're going to give here here is make sure the , you know , the upper lip is pretty large .

I'm gonna make the bottom lip at least as large as the upper lip .

I don't like it when my bottom lip is smaller like that than my top lip .

I don't think it looks as sexy .

It has a kind of a cute look to it .

So I'm gonna kind of stick with this proportions that I had in the pencil and I'm only going to show it to here .

Oftentimes you leave out this last line that comes up , just leave it off all together and that's done a lot in comic books .

And so it adds this kind of sexy look and then you can even take pencil here if you want .

In this case , you'd use like , you know , either when you , when you're actually doing the coloring part , you can add a little bit of shadow there with color , kind of show that shape of the lip and then you can even , you know , draw some circles in here to show that the lips are nice and glossy , right ?

So that's pretty much it .

We now we have a , you know , fairly sexy comic book face .

These are the , you know , the basic standards to go by , I think , you know , there's so many different styles out there though .

There's , you know , you know , that you have your manga hybrids , your manga , you know , your comic hybrids and so forth that lean more towards American American comics .

You have those that are more old style , you know , there's just so many different ways more that are more realistic and so forth .

But this is pretty typical what you'll see in a lot of comics .

I'm gonna kinda get rid of that because I don't like it .

I like it being more blank right there also .

I might even blink it out right here a little bit .

I think that looks pretty cool .

So sometimes having broken lines of comics would be really cool .

Right .

The next part we want to put in before we add the hair in is and and we'll go a little bit length and here is let's add the neck .

I can also make this whole head and tilt it .

I could have drawn it tilted in the beginning .

Um And then let's say have my neck straight .

So to tilt the head is very easy in long , the studio , all you have to do is grab the marquee tool , take your old head shape here , grab this tool and then just turn the whole head and tilt it , that's it .

So her neck's not being tilted , just her head and then you draw the next straight where it normally be .

And one thing about comic books and this does differ from comic book artist to comic book artist is how thick the neck is .

So realistically , the neck might come out to like here .

And you can , you can do that if you want to , you want to have more of a realistic neck or even give them a thinner neck .

This , this all comes down to , to preference , right ?

So we can make the next kind of thing like that .

I personally like to make the next dinner .

And so I lean more toward , you know , kind of almost manga style in this way and you got to find your own style and there's nothing that says you have to make a certain size unless , you know , you get hired by a comic book company or something or , you know , let's say a game design company and you know , they want their designs look a certain way .

They want the concept look a certain way .

Then you're stuck with , you know , making thicker necks or thinner necks , whatever they tell you to do , you have to kind of do it .

So that's on an Adam's Apple , that's just showing that , you know , even women have that trachea .

I just kind of hint at some of the structure there , right .

The next thing we're gonna do now is we need to , the ears , the ears are pretty easy to put in before we put the pupils in and the hair we'll put the ears in .

It typically goes from the top of the eyebrows to the bottom of the nose .

That's about the height and width of the ear , not with height of you .

Sorry , from the front view , we're not going to see a whole lot of the air .

And also in comic books , you know , you might make ears a little bit smaller .

Uh just because it's cuter that's not to say that big ears can't be cute .

You're not gonna see much of this part of the ear right here from the front view .

You have that one part that comes out like this .

This is actually used .

It comes all the way like that , but we're not gonna add too much detail to the , to the ear .

That's where the ear drum goes down in there .

You have a line that usually comes here and kind of separates off but used , it kind of comes off like this and comes down making the whole of the ear and then , and then the ear lobe but just something like that , it's fine .

We're probably going to cover it most of the ear .

Anyway , uh in manga studio again , there's no reason to draw the ear twice .

Why don't just grab it , edit , copy , edit , paste , edit and then transform and trans or flip horizontally .

I know I did that very fast , but it's because I'm telling you exactly how to do it and you might not be using them on a studio , you might be using Photoshop or something like that .

And hopefully you already know how to use the program that you're using .

I will be coming out with a course eventually , hopefully sooner than later on how to use Moga Studio .

I also come out with free tips .

I'm gonna merge that down free chips and stuff on how to , how to use the studio .

Just little things here and there .

Right .

So there we have it .

That's yours .

I'm gonna keep them like that because again , I'm probably gonna draw hair over them anyway .

So now before we get to the hair , the final thing is for the face is let's go and add in the pupil .

So how do you decide how big pupils are ?

Well , everyone is different and it's not just pupils , pupils are the only the black part of the eye .

We're talking about the whole entire iris , right ?

And that includes the , you know , the color part and the pupil .

Well , I guess retina would be the color part .

Anyway , the whole inside color part of the eyeballs that we're drawing usually in a person .

It's not , it's not often that the eyes will actually touch the bottom , especially in comic books .

So , I mean , unless their eyes are kind of like squinted or , or closed , then you will draw the eye coming and touching top and bottom like that .

How wide it is is it takes up about one third of the inside of the eye .

So if you take the inside the eye and kind of divide it into three parts like this .

Like imagine this being three lines coming down like that .

That's about how big the people is .

It's gonna fit in that area .

You can make it a little bit bigger if you're drawing something like manga , manga eyes or something like that , obviously .

But with some hybrid , I like to come down and I want to make sure my eyes , I'm gonna make them where they don't come down the way .

So you're not gonna see the whole entire , you know , the upper lids will be covering some of the eye .

And so I'm not going to draw the entire pupil either .

It's going up , it's being covered by part of the eye almost all the time .

In comic books , you're gonna draw this dark area here in the , in the top part of the eye , maybe draw a little bit of , of lines there .

And then you have the one highlight here and one highlight here that's pretty typical of comic style .

Also got to decide , you know , where she's looking , is she looking straight ahead .

What I'm doing right now is , is it's rather boring .

The only interest that I added to her so far was that I put her head at a slight angle and that added a little bit of interest to her .

And so you can see that those pupils and how big the people are , depends on how much is dilated .

That's all , that's all it really matters on .

It's how dilated eyes are typically for a more sexy look , you want to dilate the eyes more that is making a pupils larger .

The people is the black part inside of the colored part .

Now , I can make the whole entire eye a little bit bigger on the inside .

If I want to , it's all a matter of style .

It's up to you .

Um , and I know it's like , well , what's , what's , you know , what's a standard ?

That one third is the standard , I guess you can use that as a standard and then change it from there .

I'm going to make mine just a little bit bigger just because I think it looks a little bit better .

It's my personal preference , a comic style and actually our eyes aren't super open either .

So I'm gonna kind of extend it down a little bit further .

Another thing I like to usually do is I like to like sketch in with the eyes and beat and I like to take my ink brush and kind of pull it down just part way .

I had to give nice big pupils darken in this upper part here .

So it's part of the shadow that drops on the eye , a couple of little details here .

And you know , if you're drawing a face that's really small on a comment page , obviously , you won't be able to add as many details as the eye .

Sometimes you can't even add , you know , the little highlight .

I think that looks a little bit bigger , a little bit better when it's a little bit bigger , right ?

So the next thing we need to do then is we need to add the hair and that's really the last final stage of , of drawing this character .

That is unless we , unless we're gonna add this a little bit of wash or something .

In this case , we can use this brush here , which is transparent water color .

Um using a slightly bigger brush , use a mid to make sure you make a separate layer go underneath it and then maybe just kind of choose , you know , just kind of push hard and then kind of push light to kind of smooth this in .

I really like this brush for adding , you know , this kind of detail and then I'm gonna make it a little bit smaller .

Take this white come in here like this and come over , just take straight white here , come back in to add the highlights .

You want to add any highlights to your lips .

So it's just a really quick way if you want to add kind of gray wash , you can also , you know , instead of adding gray wash , you can add , you know , some whatever color you can give her a , a color of undertone color , it's gonna slightly come down right there .

Maybe get a little bit of color underneath the eye , get some color to some of this part of the inside eye here .

Not willing to go into , you know , color theory or , or even shading form and stuff like that right in this video because that would make it too long .

But it's definitely something I teach and I you know , like how to draw heads and faces course .

And I think I teach , I teach some of it and some of the other free lessons as well .

So just I'm imagining a light source and just adding in a little bit , little bit of structure there to the face .

And I can also add structures to the neck and all that .

But I want you next thing is gonna add hair for this .

I'm gonna add a separate layer because I might really like this face and like the way it turned out , but I might want to change , you know , the hairstyles and things like that .

So let's go ahead and start with some , some hairstyle like I kind of did over here or maybe we do something different .

Maybe we can kind of make our hair kind of stick out in pig to the first thing I want to start out with is I know the hair is gonna be thicker .

So let's get my pencil here .

My hairline on women are typically short right around here .

So make your hairline somewhere around there .

You don't want to get too bigger forehead .

Some women have larger foreheads um than , than men usually , but then give it , give it some bounce .

So from the edge of the skull up here , get the hair some bounce .

I'm gonna kind of come all the way around right here .

That's , that's not giving my hair bounce .

I know my hair is gonna fit into that area there , whatever hairstyle , I give her one really cool trick that I teach in a couple of my courses with drawing hair is imagine that you have a like a halo up here and that on this halo .

This is like a literally a ring like a like a little halo .

This is like a metal ring .

And on top of that ring , you have cloth hanging on it .

So here's the ring and you have cloth draped over this ring like this and the cloth just hangs down off the ring and it's pulling off each of these corners here all the way around the ring , even around the back .

And that's the hair and then you just simply cut parts of that off .

So you cut the front part off here , that'd be bangs .

You'd still have this side cloth , cut the side cloth off , that's the side of your hair .

And then you can have that back of your hair all back there .

That would be the long back party hair .

That could be one hairstyle .

So if you think about it that way , you can easily design hairstyles and that helps you understand .

You have the , you have this front part of your hair here , which is like your bang area that you can , you know , make it go long all the way down to here .

You can grow it out , you can cut it all different ways .

You can keep it longer to where your bangs just kind of flow into the side part here , right ?

This will be your hair and this will be the side planes and then you have the , the back part of your hair , which you'll be able to see a little bit like this and it come down and come in back of her .

And so we can all different , different kinds of hairstyles just by thinking about that principle there .

Oops , what the heck wrong brush , not a very helpful uh useful brush , in my opinion , right ?

So let's sign on some sort of hairstyle again , I'm gonna come up with uh let's say she has some sort of rubber bands back here that are holding her hair and then she's going to kind of have a part here on the side and her hair is gonna kind of come down here and cover her , go like tuck , that's like gonna tuck behind her ear , let's say .

So we're gonna kind of pull it down here , tuck it behind her ear .

That's a horrible line .

I don't know what just happened there like that can imagine the basic shape here like that coming behind the ear .

I have part of the hair that would fall here , be kind of like the side part here and it's gonna come off .

This is considered the side of that halo .

Remember you have the halo up here and you have that side here .

So from the side view of the head and say this is a side view of your head coming down like this and you have the ear , you have that front part of it , which is the bang I talked about you have the halo here and the , and the drape is draping over this part right here is , is all the side part of the hair .

I'm talking about anything behind that would be considered the back part of your hair .

If you think about those three stages , the front , the bangs the side and the back , it just makes it much easier to design hair and draw it .

In my opinion , I'm gonna kind of pull one hair off here .

It's kind of come to the front like this and then I'm gonna draw another piece of hair up here that's going to come off the side .

I kind of treat it like fabric at first when I'm drawing hair kind of like that like that .

And then let's just kind of pull this down and gravity is gonna pull the hair .

So imagine it like cloth , gravity pulls on it and it brings your hair down like that right ?

So even though her head is kind of tilted , gravity is pulling the hair straight down , the hair is not going to come off this way because unless wind is blowing or something .

So keep in mind that hair has some weight to it like cloth and gravity is going to pull it down , we know we're gonna have some off branches here .

Um Some parts of the hair will kind of curve out like this .

This is a good thing to get used to in comic books to kind of pull it like this when you're drawing the um beings almost like little round parts of the hair here .

And then we kind of pull off like that and then back here , we're gonna have a little bit of the .

So some of the will be here if you want to add that .

Um It's kind of cool in comics , I think to add , add a couple lines like this to show the and then you're gonna have the hair pulling off like this .

And so from this side , now I'm gonna just kind of have a little bit of hair since most of her hair is on this side , we pulled her hair this way , right ?

All that hair has been pulled that way .

So this is not the center of her face , obviously .

So she has less hair over here on her bangs left to work with .

I'm gonna kind of pull this here in front like this .

Yeah .

What kind of , I'm kind of almost pulling out and then down .

So as if uh first she's leaning to the side , her hair kind of pulls this way , then grabby pulls it back down .

These are little things you want to think about when , when drawing and designing stuff .

I'm gonna keep some of her ear there .

Couple of strands of hair may be coming off and then maybe even strands right here that just kind of loose , maybe a couple coming over eye right there .

Next is that , that back part of the hair that we're going to see a little bit of .

And so that's where the comes up here and this is being pulled into some sort of bun over there here .

So it's being the , the stretch in the pool is coming from that bun like this and it's gonna come down and then I'm also going to pull over here .

We notice that it's not like a straight haircut .

So the pull is kind of uneven , you have more on one side than the other .

And from here , I'm gonna kind of come and make sure that the hair I'm gonna have it come forward like this , right ?

Just kind of design it out like that .

So it's kind of like this .

Um I'm not sure what this , what the hairstyle this would be exactly .

I know I've seen it before and you can get a lot of inspiration from , from realistic drawings or um from realistic uh not real well , they are real , not realistic photographs of people and this is kind of how the hair kind of bunch up a little bit at the end here .

A little kind of , some of them , some of them wave out some of them are more straight , more wild .

You want to keep it more simple when it comes to comics , you don't want to add too much detail , especially if it's a character gonna be drawing a lot because you gotta keep in mind , you gotta draw that character a lot .

You know , in a lot of frames .

She , you know , if she , if she appears a lot in the comic book , then you know that you're gonna be drawing her in a lot of frames , you're gonna be drawing her over and over again and you have to take that wild hairstyle .

Imagine what it looks like from the side view , from the back view , you have to make a character profile first so you get all that right ?

And uh you know , that's pretty , that's pretty big hair , I think .

Anyway , uh just having to draw that over and over again can get really frustrating if you never worked on a comic book .

Uh Just trust me , I , I made some of my , some of my outfits I made too detail and I'm like , you know what , I'm changing this outfit and I gave a logical reason in the storyline , you know , for her to change her outfits the next day or something .

And I just went ahead and changed her outfit because I got sick of drawing that same outfit that all the details that I had invented for .

It was just way too much and I , I didn't want to keep drawing that over and over and over and whatever time I drew her , especially like even something as simple as a detailed belt can get really irritating .

And so here I'm not going to get realistic .

I'm gonna keep it more comic , just kind of hint at the complexity of the hair by just adding a few lines here and there that go all the way through and then some that don't and kind of kind of break this up .

And by doing that , you're going to give that illusion of complexity even though , you know , you've drawn very little lines that is you didn't take much time to draw .

I've drawn all this in real time .

So you can see I'm not taking a whole lot of time to do this and this , you know , this definitely hair definitely takes time to get to the point where you can feel comfortable enough to you just like rack out hair like , like really easily .

Um just quickly without much thought because you've done , you know , hair so many times that it's like , OK , I can just sketch this in and it'll look nice on the page of that particular comment page you're working on and I'm gonna add some dark shadow all on this side of the hair like this kind of break it up a little bit .

I just wanna show there's like a separation there .

I would , you know , I would take a little more time than I'm doing here to actually flush some of this out .

I just want to add a little bit of dark , especially since I know that the , the direction of my light right now is coming more from the right hand side , which is usually what I do .

So , you know , she looks a lot more cartoony than her .

And the reason why is the subtle differences I made in the face , especially to the jaw area and how I made her whole face here a little bit shorter .

Notice the triangle that how big it is here compared to hers .

Hers is more squat .

It's not as long .

And so the whole all the facial features are close together .

It's also something if you want your character to look younger , you tell even though I added , you know , very complex features to her and not , not like super big eyes or nothing , she still looks um younger , youngish in appearance .

And that's because I kept all that close together .

If you pull it all father apart like this drawing here , you'll get something that looks more um more womanly , more uh like an an older woman in her twenties or something like that .

Even thirties just depends , but you can still take this concept right here and make her look a little bit more comic cutie by giving her a slightly shorter chin .

And also when you round the face more , um you can also get a younger look that way as well .

But notice and this is going to make her look a little bit younger by just by making this change .

I'm keeping it very sketchy here , just kind of pulling the lines together .

But , you know , I kind of messed up a little bit .

Um I need to fix it over here .

But anyway , get the idea .

The idea is that if you go away from the realistic approach and kind of add less of a chin , you get something that looks a little bit sexier and more comic like and even her face here .

I might even want to change a little bit .

But what I'm , what I'm going to do to make her chin not look as big is go to this layer here and let's add a little bit of under shadow to the lip .

I pressed really hard .

At first , I'm pressing light and by giving that under shadow to the lip and then giving a little bit more shadow to the actual chin down here , you can give the illusion like , like how real people have that her chin is not as big as it is .

If I don't have any shading like that , I would want to actually draw her chin shorter than this year .

I want to take the pin lines and probably come to about here right to that center line .

That's when I start curving it .

I wanna stick right here to where pretty much where I put my shadow oops and that right there is gonna be what might might be where I draw her chin somewhere around there , maybe a little bit longer .

But you get the idea still .

This right here works for comic book .

Even if I didn't have the shadow in there , that ratio would , would still look pretty good .

And if I wanted to , I can come down to this , this layer here and I can add , you know , a little bit of shadow chew her hair , add some drop shadow , you know , of course , this is if you're doing a black and white comic , which are quite popular .

And if you're doing a black and white comic among the studio , this this brush here is a really quick way to just add like wash type shadowing and then just kind of you push hard at first and then you just kind of lightly push everything in .

And this is a cool way I think to add quick coloring , I even do this for color work .

This is one of my main workhorses in manga studio for color work .

And then I might add with a hard brush tool here , almost a white color and kind of add some highlights coming and some of that right there .

And maybe even across here , maybe you go cross right here just a little bit , right .

So you have it .

That's the end of this lesson .

I know that's a full like lesson .

You're like , whoa , the extended lessons will be longer than that .

Well , the extended lessons will be something completely different than this .

Not completely different .

We're gonna take the same principles and just expand upon them .

So we're , we're gonna draw different faces , maybe draw mouth open , draw slightly different eyes , you know , go just expand upon these concepts and how to further develop um sexy comic book faces for comics .

And also you can use the same principles for manga .

I'm using the same kind of measurements I would for manga , pretty much the only difference is that you make more sharper chins and things like that .

Um Again , I also have a whole course on how to draw manga faces and hair .

And it's on to me , it's on my website mass pay now dot com .

Just click on the link to go to my website there .

You'll see it up on the on the video .

It's an annotation that link will take you directly to my website .

Um And where you can go to and then click on courses .

It's at the top , click on courses and also on the front page there .

Actually , you should still see the manga um how to draw manga faces under under courses .

You'll see all the different courses I have , I also have a whole entire head course that's part of my um how to draw um what is it called , how to draw and paint comics .

And that one is is very extensive .

It has a lot of different lessons .

It's a lesson bundle .

One of one of them is drawing figures .

One of them is also drawing heads and stuff like that .

And then I have my newer one , which is how to draw animate , animate bodies and figures , which has a quick uh also within it , a two hour anatomy course , which is kind of cool , just breaks down anatomy really quickly in two hours .

Which is quite amazing how much it covers an amount of time .

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