Faced With Fear: Conquering Your Fears of Illustrating Faces | Constructing The Face

Welcome to another session of Faced With Fear: Conquering Your Fears of Illustrating Faces! In this class, Melissa demonstrates how to construct a proportionate face, and shares some helpful tips on exploring the possibilities of how to exaggerate the features for cartooning. Understanding the construction and proportion of the face is the first step towards designing successful characters.

Throughout this series, Melissa guides you through the fundamentals of drawing and coloring feminine and masculine character portraits, from using basic shapes and line to build features to generating and implementing beautiful skin tone palettes. The aim of this series is to provide you with the building blocks and knowledge you'll need in order to feel more confident in your ability to tackle drawing and coloring faces.

All levels of skill are welcome! 

• Introduction
• Constructing a Proportionate Face
• Exploring Exaggeration
• Reference Recommendations
• Closing Thoughts