The downfall of this strategy is that you can’t really do details with it, and its really easy to smear the rest of the paper.

Lightly scribble on an area of your drawing, then you can rub your hand or a napkin on that area, and eventually the scribble will disappear and you’ll have an even and smooth gray patch on your drawing. Lighter shadows such as the top of the fuselage (if existent) can be used by 4B/5B, and darker shading like landing gear can be carried out by 7-9B pencils. Exact accuracy isn’t needed, just the basic forms so you can commit these to memory.For shading, you can either use a regular pencil if desired, 5B-9B pencils are also recommended. You will want to take as little time as possible, maybe a minute on each one. In order to memorize these forms, you will create 50 renditions of these facial planes. Keeping it simple is the best advice that anyone could be given. These shapes could easily be made much more complicated, but it doesn’t have to be. These five areas are the major planes of the face. In other cases, the jaw can be wider than the cheekbone and cause a somewhat upward facing plane. In other cases, it can be a flat plane that is basically facing to the right and left of the cheekbone and jaw are relatively the same width. This area of the cheek is most commonly a sort of downward facing plane, especially if the person has particularly jutting cheekbones, and a smaller jaw. The cheek itself connects the area of the cheekbone to the jaw itself. This indicates the exact location of the cheekbone. The cheekbone has been indicated in this image with particularly stark line work, below the eyes and off to the sides. The last step is indicating the cheekbones, the cheek, and the jaw. While doing the next sketch you try to improve on your mistakes, but you still focus on speed.

You want spend as little time as possible to place all the elements onto your face and once you are done, you reflect on what is right and what is wrong, before moving onto doing the next one. TIP: To improve your speed, when learning How to Draw the Planes of the Face, you want to do quick fire sketches, at least 25 heads at a time. If you do your diligence you’ll be able to accomplish that too. We were able to accomplish this in a matter of second.

We also drew in the indication as to where the brow, eyes, nose, and mouth will be placed. With that said, you can see how we quickly drew the basic shape of the head, the round part of the skull (the cranium) and the jaw (the mandible). So, if you haven’t learned about How to Draw the Skull, How to Draw Proportions of the Face, or How to Draw the Face, now is a great time to head over to our other posts before launching into this one. Whenever doing a study of the face it’s important to know the basics.

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