How to Draw Funny Faces for Kids
- 1). Draw a large figure eight on a piece of drawing paper, being sure to make the top part noticeably smaller than the bottom part. This shape will form the front-view outline of a comical face.
- 2). Form the cheekbones. Erase the figure eight's insides (where the lines cross). This will turn the upper part of the figure eight into an upside down "U" and the bottom part into a regular "U." Extend the endpoints of the upside down "U" so they reach just past the regular "U's" endpoints. Then extend the regular "U's" endpoints until they reach the upside down "U's" outline.
- 3). Draw a vertical line lightly through the center of the face as a reference mark for the eyes.
- 4). Draw the eye outlines. Make two small circles inside the upper half of the figure eight, equally spaced on either side of the center line from Step 3. Make sure the spaces above and below the eyes are roughly equal.
- 5). Draw pupils as two filled-in circles inside the eye outlines. Experiment with the part of the outline you draw the inner circle in. Notice the effects and expressions that different pupil positions evoke.
- 6). Form eyebrows. Draw upside-down "U"s above each eye. Experiment with different line qualities to create different expressions. Try scraggly, wavy, thin and thick lines.
- 7). Draw the nose. Flow a curve starting from an arbitrary point between the two eye outlines, moving down and slightly right as it enters the figure eight's bottom part, then hooking left slightly to end in the upper part of the figure eight's bottom.
- 8). Add a comic mouth. Experiment with different shapes drawn in the space between the nose's bottom and the figure eight's bottom: crescent, oval or a downward-pointing triangle. Whichever shape you work with, skew it so one side is higher than the other.
- 9). Add hair. Sketch in swirling circles that start outside the figure eight's left outline, then hug the outline's top (the head), then move down on the figure eight's right outline. Alternatively, draw a few short test curves up from the space between the eyes and the top of the figure eight.
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Evaluate your drawing objectively by taking a break and then returning to view it. Add in any details suggested by your instincts. Consider your drawing complete when it produces at least a grin from another viewer.
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