Ok first of all, I’ve quite a fan of a lot of the work on this website, and I’ve been lurking for quite awhile now, but only recently decided to make an account, and now I’m posting for the first time. On to my topic though…
I’m fairly new to drawing, but I’m catching on, what I’d consider, pretty darn fast. I’ve decided I wanted to learn to draw when I had to do an assignment for English and I had to draw a picture. I had the perfect picture in mind and I wanted to trace it, but as I learned, you can’t trace at all with normal paper, so I tried free-handing it. Turns out it looked very similar, and I had a lot of fun. So I’ve done this process for quite a while, finding ‘cool’ picture, and free-handing them, and I get almost all the details down accurately. I’ve learned a lot from this, but I decided I actually wanted to be able to draw on my own, so I started looking online to learn how to.
Right now I’ve focusing specifically on faces, since they can be stand-alone pictures, it is necessary to have them in most pictures, and it just seemed like a logical place to start. I’ve learned all of the ‘general’ proportions and my pictures are coming out looking pretty good, but there is a problem. I seem to be lost when it comes to what characteristics on the face belong to males, and which belong to females. I come to you for help, and hopefully someone knows of a tutorial that is about this specific topic. Right now I’m having this problem when I was trying to draw a male. my picture was looking great, but as I went along it started looking more and more feminine. After I added the outline of long hair, I took a step back and realized…wow that looks more like a girl. I believe my main faults are the eyes and mouth, but the eyebrows might be a factor too, but I’m not really sure.
So yeah, I know this isn’t really related to computer graphics, but I thought/hoped someone here could give me a quick link to help me out. Thanks a lot, and sorry, I could have probably made this post shorter.