Tips on how to draw a Nose & Lips

ArtistsNetwork.com, n.d. — 23 p.Drawing faces is a common desire for artists, and beginners must start somewhere. That’s why lessons on specific features, such as how draw a nose or how to draw lips, are a great way to focus on the parts that make up the whole. FBI-trained artist Carrie Stuart Parks teaches you these things on how to draw a face and more in her books, including Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces.Learning to recognize shapes in a photograph or image takes training, she writes. You need to train your mind what to look for. Once you become aware of something, it’s easier to see it. For example, when you’re buying a new car you spend time studying the cars on the market. You then go to a dealer and look over the selection. You might fall in lust with a particular model and color. Afterwards, it seems like everybody has the car you were looking at. Did everyone suddenly go out and buy the same car? No, you have simply become aware of the shape and color of that particular car, and you now recognize it among all the other cars on the road. The same thing happens with the shapes in facial features.