Faces are tricky to draw, and often frustrating when you’ve got everything else looking the way you want the face doesn’t quite pull together. They are also infuriating when you draw one without the head and it looks great but you can’t add the head for fear of messing up. Here’s how I draw my faces

1. Start with a circle. Draw your chin and ears
2. Start the face with the eyes and eyebrows
3. From there draw your nose, then your lips
4. From there you want to get the base color for the face filled in
5. Then you want to grab a slightly darker color for shading
6. Shade the area around the eyes, do not shade into the forehead
7. Shade the nose, the darkest edges should be around the nostrils, gradually get lighter the higher up you go
8. Stop shading by the time you hit the forehead, make it gradual. Get the ears as well
9. Shade and little around the cheeks for the cheekbones
10. Get base color for lips and do some shading there
11. Start drawing the hair, use several strokes, let some fall into the face
12. Depending on the hair length some strands will go in front of the ears and other strands behind.
13. Make some short strokes within the hair (if the hair is black I reccommend using white to make these streaks)
14. Add some shading around the hairline
15. Get the base color down for your hair, then start adding some streaks of lighter and darker strands