How to Draw Face Components with Colored Pencils

Learn to paint the nose with colored pencils by selecting brown, red-brown, and peach color, lightening the sketch, and building dark to light shading with circular motion and careful blurring.

Learn to build nose volume with layered circular strokes of dark browns, pinks, and peach tones, fading colors to create contrast, using blur vision to judge light and dark.

Apply dark browns, red browns, and blacks to blur nostrils and define nasal cavities with colored pencils. Refine texture and shadows with blue grays, tiny dots, and eraser details.

Create nasal skin texture with dotted skin finish using pink no. 319, shading with brown no. 378, and white highlights achieved by careful erasing around the nose.

apply a layered approach to painting an ear, starting with dark browns and building skin texture with pink and peach tones, blending gradually without hard lines to create depth.

Learn to add darkness and light to the ear’s skin texture with colored pencils, fade with white, and build gloss with reds and pinks, finishing the ear and its earring.

Use chequered or geometric guides to block in the lips, apply a dark primer with browns and purples, then layer red and purple tones to build depth and texture.

Develop lip drawing techniques by layering red, brown, and purple tones to create texture, wrinkles, and varying darkness from corners toward the middle.

Apply the lower lip primer, remove white areas with red, then deepen lip texture with black to carve wrinkles and grooves, emphasizing shadows on the lips.

Apply dimming and brightening by building shadows with dark pencils and adding highlights on the lips with the rechargeable eraser and white pen.

Learn to paint the lower lip with layered colored pencils using red, magenta, red-brown, and black to build depth, texture, and natural shading while following lip direction and highlighting.

Use a rechargeable eraser from the corner to shape the lower lip, then create shine with lines, dots, and a white pen, layering black, red, and brown for depth.

Master hair foundations with colored pencils by following the hair direction, painting dark strands first with brown tones, and keeping strokes soft to show dark and light strands.

Use layered colored pencils to build soft, light-colored hair with red brown, light brown, and black for volume, contrast, and realistic texture.

Learn to add hair to the front of the face with colored pencils by drawing individual strands, layering darker browns and black for depth, and finishing with final opacity.

Learn to start iris coloring by sketching the eye and avoiding eyelashes early, then layer blues, gray, yellow, lemon yellow, and orange around the pupil to build depth with lines and blurs.

Learn to add fine lines, shading, and blue and yellow color layering to the iris with colored pencils, using directional strokes and eraser highlights to capture accurate iris detail.

Finish iris painting by applying blue, gray, magenta, red, and purple tones, adding fine lines and capillaries, then fade the iris border into the eye's white for realism.

Apply orange red and main red tones to color the iris and shade the eye, then define the white area and eyelashes with a rechargeable eraser and a white pen.

Shade the upper eyelid with a dark line and fade toward the lid to add depth. Layer browns, purples, and reds for dimension.

Finish the upper eyelid with peach cobbler and orange tones, then start painting the lower lash line by layering red brown and purple, fading from dark to light.

Master the lower eyelid technique in colored pencils by layering purples, browns, and blacks, adding texture with spots and controlled contrast, and finishing the eye before the lashes.

Draw upper and lower eyelashes with direction, starting from the corner of the eye and layering lashes. Use a rechargeable eraser to create light lashes and deepen shading for shine.