How to Draw Facial Features

- Watch Free Life Drawing Video Lessons - Discover How to Draw Facial Features. In previous videos, you learned how to draw eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. It’s time to put all this information into practice. I will draw two portraits from imagination in reed pen and sepia ink. Drawing a central line of the face helps to keep the symmetry in place. It is good to depict the planes of the nose to describe its geometry. I will add tonal values to illustrate the directions of the nose planes. The distance from the base of the nose to the chin is divided in half. This is the lower lip level. The upper half is divided into three equal parts, which locate the upper lip’s edges. The lower eyelid also has visible thickness. The pupil sits above the level of the eyes’ corners. There are cast shadows under the upper eyelids. The eyelids’ thickness is also in shadow. The top part of the iris is overlapped by the upper eyelid. I leave the highlight of an eye to suggest its gloss