Can you draw faces?

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I don't think I'm that good at drawing faces which is why recently I've been pretty much only drawing faces.

http://11krage.deviantart.com/art/augus ... 0-93652365
http://11krage.deviantart.com/art/Reali ... -108176509
http://11krage.deviantart.com/art/serio ... s-89757765

I think a lot of it depends on practice. I'm not good now, but I aim to be.

Those look good. The second one, especially, is much better than I can do.

I am good at drawing faces.
I have even wanted to be a Caricature artist.

I can't draw anything that requires so much symmetry. My faces always turn out cockeyed somehow. Also, the eyes always turn out weird without a realistic expression. The only way I can get the proportions/expression right is by copying a photo very carefully.

Yes

I am not great at picking up social cues. In life drawing classes, I did not see the models as people, but as shapes and tones; I treated their faces no differently. Therefore, my drawings were accurate. Others in the class could rarely observe at this basic level; the higher level processing of context got in the way (i.e. they'd notice the model smiling and "know" smiles are represented by a simple u-shaped curve; they did not observe how a smile was formed by complex, amorphous shapes and shadows).

The teachers spent most of their time instructing them to look beyond this, to see the basic structures and shapes.



Yes, they definitely do . (Based on several years of observation.)

Ohhh, I see what you mean. I never thought about it that way, but that makes sense, that being able to see past the context to the basic shapes would make it easier.



Ahh. Yeah, I figured that might be the case.

I'm very good at drawing people and faces. But I'm rubbish at drawing animals or landscape

Faces are hard for me. Like we had to do a missing poster. My guy had crooked ears, they were different sizes. I have trouble with the sizing. Like how big eyes,ears, nose, and mouth should be.

Faces. I cant remember them. Can't draw them, either.

I'm actually somewhat decent at faces (or at least I was as a kid), but only faces that interest me- like if I'm attracted to the eyes and features of the face it was easier to draw than just some random person. I could never draw from memory though- I pretty much have no visual memory, and always have to use an aid.

Here's one I did when I was about 16:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/fordprefectskid/other/clonesketch.jpg

Wow, that's really good.

Faces, I'm pretty good at. Expressionless or calm faces I do quite well. Surprise is my second best. Anger and fear, I do all right. Anything more complex than that I really struggle with. I have a big book of faces for photo reference, but I only get it out when I'm really stuck.

I'm all right at interpreting expressions, much better than I used to be. Body language is mostly lost on me. My figure drawings are often stiff.

I can't draw kids' faces, so I substitute anime faces.

I have a comic so I practice a lot: The Elves of LleuGarnock

drawing faces is the only thing i'm good at.