The Human Face

  The face of every adult human has the same proportions and the more proportional and symmetrical the face the more attractive it appears(especially in drawings).  From a frontal view of the face, the eyes are in the middle of the head, from the topmost part  you can see down to the end of the chin. The face is also five eyes wide with the extra eye lengths going between and to the sides of the actual eyes. The corners of the mouth should extend to be even with the middle of the eyes and the edges of the nose even with the inside corners of the eye. The ear of a human starts even with the corner of the eye and ends with the mouth. The face's nose placement is one of the most important, so read carefully, from the top of the head to the eye brow is equal to the eyebrow to the bottom of the nose and both are equal to the bottom of the nose to the bottom of the chin.
      From the side view of a face, the outside corner of the eye to the back of the ear equals the distance from the middle of the eye to the bottom of the chin and the middle of the eye to the top of the head. The top of a person's neck begins even with the bottom of the ear and the neck is one third as long as the height of the head from chin to top.
        Getting away from the face, I will touch on the human body because it is fun to draw, too.The idealized figure is eight heads high. The head is, obviously, one head tall. The others are: the chin to the middle of the chest, to the navel, to bottom of the torso, to mid-thigh, to right below the knees, to middle of the shin, to the bottom of the feet. When I draw people, I start at the head and work down from there but my sister, the art education major, draws herself stick skeletons with heads to get the proportions right the first time. I must say her people normally look better than mine.Okay, back on track, the arms of humans gets me sometimes but the length from the elbow to the tip of the hand is a quarter of the drawing's height and the distance between the elbow and the armpit is half the amount of the previous. Now, back to in terms of heads, that means the hand is equal to the space from the bottom of the chin to the edge of the hairline. The tip of the finger to the elbow is 2 heads and the distance from the elbow to the armpit is only one head and the breadth of a person's shoulders should also not be more that a quarter of the total height(so, no creepily squat, buff people).
     Now that you have the knowledge to draw your friends (and make them look better than they do in real life) find your tools(pencil, paper, eraser) and make art not war (unless your art causes war and that is not probable so you shouldn't have to worry about that, unless you really do suck and then no one will start any wars on what they can't recognize, so NO EXCUSES). Go draw now and show me what you have made  :]