How to Draw the Believe Face

About Face DRAWING the face #2 This is the Believe face from the Big Art Quest #aboutface
The Tools
Tracing paper is your friend not a cheat sheet. It gives you the chance to think and then re-think your drawing. To iterate with wild abandon.
Good drawing paper has weight and tooth. It comes in Hot Press and Cold Press. Pads, loose sheets and Blocks.
I am not going to be using the finest Drawing paper for this but I will be using quality. I do this so my results are predictable for the Demos.
My pencils
Like paint a decent pencil can make drawing time easier. Very cheap pencils can have hard bits in them like pebbles. The leads can break a lot and they may not be a ton of fun to work with. That being said a Yellow HB pencil has been known to make some Amazing art on lined notebook paper. The art lives in you not in your art materials.
I do like Softer pencils 2b and 4b. I have a couple great erasers that I can never find when I am looking for them. Eraser fairies and Pencil goblins have been known to clean out my art room from time to time.
The Believe Face VS The Real face
The Believe face is almost a highly refined Symbol of a face. The Believe Face can help you start to believe you can draw faces. It is artful and expressive. The basic face comes in the style of the artist and is under its creators total Control. Even though the Believe Face is more symbolic than factual you still need to start with some FUNdamentals in Drawing. You can make tiny adjustments as you master the placement of features to create distinctive stylistic results. Big eyes, Scrawled mouths and tiny noses no human can breath out of.
The REAL Face is totally about the observations of light and shadow. The expression of value and what the artist is seeing. This is the land of portrait artists. Where the mood is set by set by subtle and closely observed factors the artist must sift through.
The path to the Real face can totally begin with the Believe face. They do not exist as polar opposites to each other but more reflections of an artist's experience to the subject. Chances are unless you had a friend in school who was in their art journey at the Believe face stage this was never shared with you.
In art school observation tends to be valued above all else so the Believe face is rarely addressed. Yes the Believe face can be a valuable tool in a creative journey. A stepping stone to fanciful expression or the platform to reach up to traditional portraiture. On the art journey the experience and confidence a basic can offer has tremendous value and so we will look at the wide world of Expression that a Believe Face gives us
First Draw in oval with a wider top and a slightly tapered bottom. Looks a bit like an egg pointing down.
Create a Vertical line that bisects the middle of your oval
Now make a Horizontal line at the halfway point Across
This is the place Features are Hung and Placed.
Eyes Should be Set apart at least and eye width
The nose is halfway to the bottom of the oval
The mouth is halfway between the Nose and the bottom of the Chin
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[@karenkatigbak7730]

Thank you cinamon for all that you give. May it come back to you a million folds!

[@fei575]

Love the big quest! Thank you Cinnamon and John! Xxx

[@CLChantal]

Drawing and art in general has always been relaxing to me, still is even if it's not perfect, i don't care, it's still relaxing. Which is why i always have something to draw with in my bag LOL

[@marcipotts7397]

Cinnamon thank you so much you are a wonderful teacher and thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, love and hugs 🎨

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Love!!!

[@crystalblake8619]

I'm in on this art quest if I can find everything ok! Thank you Cinnamon for all you do!

[@sherrigee9418]

So much fun! Thank you for showing us how to paint. I appreciate all you do!

[@QueenAusetHeru]

Cinnamon is an amazing teacher! I've been trying to learn faces forever! Today, I finally got it! Thank you!

[@artfarro3044]

wonderful as usual 😙

[@suellynvandesande1738]

Am I the only one who sees the resemblance of believe face to her daughter, Honey? Thank you Cinnamon for being our teacher.

[@helendenoia6840]

thank you. drawing noses has been a challenge for me your lesson has made it easier for me same with the lips,, love this lesson

[@lizm7374]

thank you for doing this phenomenal art quest. years ago when I was a teenager I drew some fairly good faces but have forgotten a lot. am so looking forward to this art quest. love you guys you both make my days sooooo much better with your positive attitude and compassion !!!

[@tonicoccaro5624]

You and your husband are the greatest. I could not draw or paint but now I'm learning, and everything I have been doing looks good.

[@susansacco7419]

Wow I just love you! I started painting with you about 1 year ago and stopped painting to learn how to draw faces. Thanks for talking about relaxing. Thanks for this video. Thanks for being so awesome!

[@roxie1117]

Can’t wait to start my art quest. This is exactly what I am looking for. 🙂

[@debiward8118]

Just FYI You explained it perfectly!!!!

[@debiward8118]

Finished the Video....You are simply amazing!!!!

[@debiward8118]

Oh Cinnamon, I just sent a request to join the "The Big Art Quest" and I'm only halfway through this video and I've already learned so much, I absolutely Love the way you articulate, I always come away feeling like I really can do this ART THING...unfortunately I'm off to bed and early to rise for work....but I can't wait to see the rest of this Video for all the rest of these nuggets on drawing Believe Faces...You are the Best. PS...also can't wait to purchase your new brushes...If I speak to management of Michaels and Hobby Lobby will the be able to get them.

[@rhondamagee7459]

I love to draw, but faces have always caused me grief, thank you Cinnamon😊

[@marywdavis1476]

Cinnamon I don't know how to to post my stuff. I want to learn. I am proud of the face you helped me do tonight. I told on the facebook page I am very tech challanged.