Help on drawing women

[Zoidberg]

Anyone got any tips on drawing some women? I mean I try, but my women allmost allways turn out like transvestites or something? Im never happy with them! Im talking about the face, the body...im pretty satisfied with! But female faces...whats up with that?!?!

[Cuddly]

Yeah, it's the same for me, man. Except even drawing the body is something I have to struggle with. So any tips would be most welcome.

[[TLG]_Spider-Wal]

yeah i got the same problem. It helps if more people ask the same thing

WE NEED JUAN'S HELP !

[eliseu gouveia]

Have you ever tried drawing portraits of the women around you?

[Tony Moore]

i'm hardly the guy to give advice on drawing good women, but these things have always helped me.

get yourself a magazine with pics of plenty of beautiful women in it, and draw draw draw.

a few things to notice and to possibly exaggerate to accentuate the femininity are, the roundness of the jaw and chin. No lantern-jawed chicks. they'll always come out like dudes if you don't watch that. Also, sometimes making the eyes slightly bigger than normal, by a pinch, helps.

Be careful not to add too many lines to the face. the more lines the face has, the older she will look.

good luck.

-T

[Peregrine]

Check out Figure Drawing for all it's Worth by Loomis. It's in the PJ links section.

[Tony Moore]

www.penciljack.com/links

the site Peregrine is referring to is http://www.fineart.sk/

-T

[razz007]

Alos on drawing womens faces is simplicity on a dudes face you use alot of lines to show the bridge of the nose jaw lines and other stuff to make him look ruff and tuff with a females face its the complete opposite use few lines and imply the rest for the nos you do little nostrils but not draw out the whole nosebasic simple lines for the eye and thin smooth eyebrows...remember the key is key it simple, fewer lines plus wht was said above draw from references over and over and over and when your good at it then get more refernces (preferably with more challengin headshots) and draw, draw, draw, draw and draw some more and when your really good at that then draw, draw, draw, draw and draw some more


raz

[EGO Studios]

Buy a stack of Men's magazines, Playboy, stuff, maxim, perfect 10 etc. (if anyone ask's just say you read the articles ... and DRAW DRAW DRAW using them as reference. Constant practice and the repetative nature will iron the curves, proportion etc... ,that you need to know to draw a woman, into your brain.

Its also one of the best ways to learn how to draw different body types too. Artists like Adam Hughes and Alan Davis excel at this.

Althought some people may stand by drawing books, they are great to learn some technique, but you are only learning how to interpret what the author/artist of the book has already interpreted. So whenever possible, draw from life.

[Tony Moore]

nothing beats drawing from life, period.

but in lieu of that, magazines are an excellent choice.

-T