Two How to Draw Daisy Videos

One day, I was looking at some flowers, and imagined how to draw them. I decided to try to draw daisies based on the real ones I had in front of me. I tried sketching them in different ways with different mediums, filming my attempts. My favorite version of the daisy was the one I drew with pen. I edited the footage of me drawing the pen version into a how to draw video, and posted it on YouTube a few weeks ago.

I was going to post photos of other versions of the daisies I drew in marker, acrylic paint, and colored pencil in a blog post similar to the one I made surrounding my clay strawberry video. As I looked for places in the daisy footage to save photos from, I realized I had enough clips to make a second video. I am not sure if the repetition interested my viewers or not. At least it gave a larger glimpse at the other drawings I had made than photos could have. Here is the daisy video with multiple mediums:

I post videos to YouTube on every other Thursday on my channel Varietygirl1. You can watch more how to draw videos there. Please comment below about what you think about two videos on the same subject, or tweet me @Varietygirl1.

Trying to Draw Every Hair Around a Face

 

A few days ago, I decided to draw another face. I started with the eyes, nose, and mouth. It was looking like the last realistic drawing I made of a face, except I think I scaled the features more realistically this time. Then, it was time to draw the hair. In my last drawing of a person, I drew the hair quickly by going back and forth with my pencil. This time, I decided to try to add more detail. I drew one hair at a time, not lifting my pencil until I reached the end of each strand. I was able to pause in the middle of a strand and start again without changing the thickness as long as my pencil's point stayed on the paper.

I started each strand where the part was at the top of the head, and then only moved down. I drew some bangs that were also parted. Surprisingly, drawing each hair did not take much longer than shading in the hair would have, and it looked more natural. I felt more focused when working on this drawing than the last one. Drawing each detail individually was very enjoyable. I was thinking of adding more hair or shading, but I did not want to make the details I had already added hard to see. Next time, I will try to draw more strands of hair. 

Instead of adding shading to the rest of the face with shadows, I drew small, light horizontal lines. At first, I worried this would look like facial hair, but the more I added, the more the lines made the drawing appear more three dimensional.

Next Thursday, I am going to post a video showing how to draw realistic eyes on my YouTube channel, Varietygirl1.

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Sketching Faces

The other day, someone asked me if I could draw a person. I drew the person on the left of this piece of paper in a sort of cartoon way. Then, someone else who saw the sketch said that drawing looked really detailed, and showed me how they draw cartoon people. That reminded me of the simple cartoon people I drew dozens of times for a comic I had to make for English class. Those people had quick curves, basic features, and only shading on the hair. You can see examples of this second way I draw faces in the center of this top photo:

On the right side, I tried to sketch even simpler faces. On the left, I was trying to re-draw a creature I had drawn months ago and had lost. This sketch ended up looking completely different, The creature I drew before had more detailed eyes. I had given it cat features and scales, and called it cutie-saurus. This more recent drawing reminded me more of a panda as I worked on it.

Later that day, I looked back at the cartoon face, and wondered if I could draw a more realistic face. I had learned how to scale average features in an art class years ago, but had not practiced in a while. I kept erasing and re-drawing the eyes, nose, and mouth. At first, the nose looked way too short and the mouth was too far away. I did not have anyone to model for me or a mirror, but I tried to measure my own face with my fingers. When I had drawn the features in a way that satisfied me more, I added eye lashes, eye brows, more detailed line work, and shading. The realistic drawing is in the photo on the left below. On the right is a close up of the cartoon face.

After I drew all these faces, I realized I could make how to draw videos on this subject. I already filmed videos on how to draw eyes, and am going to post them soon. What other videos on faces would you like to see?