Men are from mars, Women have smaller faces
So today I posted 3 new classes on the site in the Digital Drawing in Photoshop course, one of which is Female Portraiture. In it, Ron Lemen talks about how to draw the female face as compared to a male. The weird thing is, as many drawing classes as I’ve taken, I’ve never given much thought to the differences you have to be aware of when drawing male/female faces. This youtube video does a good short comparison of drawing them in Painter X. Obviously women’s features are a little softer and delicate, but what small details cause our brain to instantly compute someone’s face as either gender? i mean, other than a thick beard and luigi mustache…
When I was in San Francisco for Macworld I was handed a flyer with what appeared to be half naked women all over it. I shrugged it off as another very strange person wandering the exhibit floor (there were many). That was until I saw “gender illusionists” written across the top. Turns out it was a flyer for a Drag club haha. If I was a guy, I probably would’ve felt a little dirty thinking that some of the Drag Queens were hot. As a girl, I give them props for being able to get that much cleavage with pecs, it’s really quite impressive. What was used? Tape? Toilet paper? I gotta try that.
Anyways, doing some 3D modeling in my classes, I’ve come to understand that the proportions of the human body you learn in basic drawing classes are something that you don’t just forget and never use. I dread the day that I have to create a character in Maya and it looks more like a mutant ninja turtle than a human. I guess that I could play it off as an identity trait, but I think I should start brushing up on the human form.
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