Drawing Tuesday - facial features

 This topic includes - or starts with - anything to do with the face, human, animal, or otherwise. 

(via https://neurosciencenews.com/object-faces-16827/)

Perhaps you want to focus on a particular feature rather than an entire face? Years ago, I was inspired by Matisse's "rediscovered" drawings of inuit faces

(and see https://eu.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/arts/2018/10/26/heard-museum-yua-henri-matisse-and-inner-arctic-spirit/1748104002/) 

to copy all the noses, and shortly afterwards, while sitting idly in a coffee shop, as one did in the good old days, I filled a page in my little notebook with quick, tiny drawings of the chins of passers-by. 

Or, the whole-face method is open to a variety of media, and ranges from "the telling line" (see Matisse!) to full-scale portraiture (Gainsborough etc, or Hockney). Why not try something "in the style of" one of the masters? 

Or, masks.

Starting? https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-mediums/drawing/beginners-guide-draw-facial-features/ is a beginner's guide, very to-the-point. 

There are any number of videos online, just google "drawing facial features". 

Pets have faces too! - https://www.art-is-fun.com/drawing-realistic-pets-from-photographs

From  Janet K - I decided on masks and last week went to the Africa gallery at the British Museum. I was disappointed to find that there were no sketching stools and you could not sit on the benches. I chose these heads at random and did a quick sketch of each and took photos. I had a good time drawing them at home. I love the smile on the face in the upper right. All the mouths are so different.

From Sue K - here are my ‘facial features: a trio of well-carved pumpkins, spotted on a local windowsill during Halloween last year.

From Ann -  close up from portraits of nephews

From Richard - Kept it very simple so 'it’s all about me’ in the mirror, which I've not done for nearly 40 years, I reckon. My main facial feature seems to be my spec’s.

From Sue B - my cousin’s grand-daughter in her buggy, which was part of a series of sketches from which I chose one to give on her first birthday this february! 

From Gill - I wanted to try out some Brusho Crystal Colours on different papers. I like to play!

From Joyce - a sideways look at a face I can see in a fallen tree beside Derwentwater. Hard to capture the anguished look! 

From Mags -  fabrics  with masks fit the bill  and is it just me or does the Colour Catcher from a trousers load look like teeth !!?

From Janet B - Fun and games from five years ago. A machine embroidered self portrait from a manipulated photo. 

From Helen - a collection of facial features from Japanese prints

From me - faces from a book of Munakata's woodblock prints. I started with the double face and kept going till the page was full -

He cut hundreds of large woodblocks, often straight onto the wood (without drawing), so I tried a bit of cutting of a face, again using one of his prints as a starting point -