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Understanding Facial Proportions:

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Basic Guidelines:

  1. The eyes are halfway between the top of the head and the chin.
  2. The bottom of the nose is halfway between the eyes and the chin
  3. The mouth rests on the line halfway between the nose and the chin
  4. The face is 5 eyes wide
  5. The outer corners of the mouth line up with center of the eyes
  6. The bottom of the ears line up with the bottom of the nose

This link has nice descriptions of facial proportions. Understanding these guidelines will make drawing/sculpting faces less intimidating. http://www.artyfactory.com/portraits/pencil-portraits/proportions-of-a-head.html

Sculpting Faces

Understanding the anatomy of the face first will help you to sculpt realistically. Time spent researching will really pay off! 

This one shows you how important roughing in the forms first is before you start refining the features.

This tutorial gives you a thorough break down sculpting the face. Yes it is long but rich in helpful information!

Follow this link to see some of the written directions from the video for a step by step recap of Sculpting the Face. If you would like specific details on individual features, here are tutorials for each of the features:

Sculpting the Eye Sculpting the Nose Sculpting the Ear Sculpting the Mouth

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