Facial Proportions for Figure Drawing - BEGINNER

Supplies
Crayola Marker (blue, black or another dark color)
Watercolor Paper or Normal Paper 4 Sheets
Water in a jar
Small round paintbrush
Paper Towel

Steps
1. Draw an oval on your paper (or an upside down egg)
2. Divide it into thirds from top to bottom
3. Divide it in half from side to side
4. Divide the bottom 1/3 in 1/2
5. Draw eyebrows on the top line, a nose on the middle line and the mouth on the third line
6. Imagine an eye fitting between both eyes, now draw them in
7. Draw a line down from the inside corner of the eyes to the nose line, that is about how wide
a nose is
8. Draw the ears on the sides of the head between the eyebrow line and the nose line
9. Add the neck
10. Add hair
11. Use your paintbrush and water to add shadows

Adaptions
Ask children if the person can see, smell, hear and taste

Extensions
Draw the face making different expressions
Draw the profile
Practice eyes, noses, mouths and ears
Practice different ways to draw hair
Print out a picture of someone, use tracing paper to draw their face and then see if the
proportions followed what you learned in this lesson

Artists/Art
Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci

“She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them”, Amy
Sherald
Frida Kahlo, Autorretrato con chango y loro

Books
Frida Kahlo ; A Biography Book for New readers, Susan B Katz
Katie and the Mona Lisa, James Mayhew

Homework
Draw someone you know using this technique and give your drawing to them
Vocabulary
Sign Language

Tips
The shadows can be painted by first painting over the crayola marker lines, this will make the
marker bleed and create shadows