How to Draw and Illustration Character From Real Face

Transform a real photo into a cartoon head by shaping the skull, jaw, neck, and face, exaggerating hair and features with guidelines for nose and mouth placement.

Create a cartoony caricature by building the face with two large ovals, placing eyebrows and eyes within them, then add wrinkles and a simple nose and lips to finish.

Learn to sketch a male character by shaping eyebrows, eyes, and ears to convey anger and maturity, using alignment guidelines to place features and refine the ear and hair details.

Create a chubby character from a real face by shaping a circular skull, adding volume, and placing ears, hair, and facial features using guidelines for precise placement.

Start with a circular skull and jaw, leaving space for hair and a hat. Tilt the head left, place features, add ears and clothing, and keep lines light for coloring.

Practice creating eyebrows and circular eyes for a boy, using symmetry, guidelines, and layered details like pupil and iris with light reflection, and coloring before final adjustments.

Layer colors to finish the boy's hat in brown, add a black depth layer without over-darkening, outline the hat for volume, and coordinate with the hair for a lively finish.

Learn to color a boy's curly hair using multiple colors in varied patterns to create volume, contrast, and natural, nonuniform shading across the hair.

Apply a gray foundation to the boy character's shirt, then layer colors to separate the sleeve from the body and create light and dark sides for cohesive shading.

Continue coloring the girl's character by adding skin tone variations and shading around the glasses, eyes, cheeks, nose, and neck to create depth and volume.

Learn to sketch a man's eyebrows and eyes by tracing reference patterns, shaping the eyes and eyelids, and integrating hair and glasses with clean, simplified lines.

Lighten the primary sketch, erase guidelines and mistakes, then color the left side of the hair using multiple browns and layered tones that follow hair growth to create volume.

Apply base and background colors to the hair, use darker tones on the lower parts for depth, and follow the direction of hair growth for cohesive shading.

Apply base skin tone color 330 across the face, avoid inside the eyes, add orange tonnage with 383 and 316 on the sides and neck, then pink 329 on cheeks.

Color the glasses frame with black, following the frame lines precisely to avoid mistakes on light skin. Then color inner frame and nose bridge, using brown to hide white paper.

Lighten the sketch and erase guidelines before coloring the flower crown, then build it with layered greens and random leaf directions for natural contrast against a light base.

Color the right side of the girl's hair, balancing lights and contrast with wavy edges, darker near the neck, and highlights using white, following the hair's top-to-bottom direction.