Why Are We So Bad At Drawing Faces?

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From average people, to world famous professional artists, we're all incredibly terrible at drawing faces! Why is this? Trace takes a look at the science of drawing faces, and why we draw humans that look like Neanderthals!
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@Orsbore 10 лет назад

I'm bad at drawing faces, but I'm also bad at drawing everything else.

@madogmgd 10 лет назад

I'm bad at everything else. Including commenting. 'rinrfvvokernrffnewfjk;wnrkjnrkjerfnwkjrfnew rWOPWOPWOPWOPDOOWOP

@yaminahmed9680 6 лет назад

^ LOL XD

@alpha8bluewolf441 2 года назад

I can relate

@nevolloyddelcastillo9392 10 лет назад

I have problems at drawing the hands and feet more than anything else...

@Guylock 10 лет назад

same. D:

@sayz27 10 лет назад

Hands and feet are considered to be the hardest part to draw of the human body :/

@nevolloyddelcastillo9392 10 лет назад

I think its because i cannot get the positioning right. Even if i know enough anatomy, its still tricky to draw. Something seems wrong even if it is anatomicaly correct... but i can mold or carve hands just fine... 2d-3d thing perhaps?

@nevolloyddelcastillo9392 10 лет назад

***** its a consensus among artists and hobbyist... do you have no troubles drawing hands? I tend to put it out of sight...

@nevolloyddelcastillo9392 10 лет назад

I once drew an almost perfect hand then i realized that the pinky is missing... that probably is why toons only have four fingers...

@amberdoan2316 8 лет назад

Can't...draw...the other...eye...*^*

@weca1022 7 лет назад

TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR WHY IS ART SO FUCKING HARD

@amberdoan2316 7 лет назад

+Evoli Glaziola IKR?!??

@Poop-bd4gs 7 лет назад

I uhh can draw the other eye but apparently my new drawing program makes me draw like shit just look at my profile picture. Ms paint is better

@paigelacy5257 6 лет назад

I know right I can't get the face perfectly symmetrical

@eleanorgracelanozo8340 6 лет назад

Amber Doan me too

@TheRunningLeopard 10 лет назад

Here's a question; why are hands and feets so hard to draw?

@battlebear7214 10 лет назад

Because... SCIENCE!

@specktech314 10 лет назад

they aren't try using a pentagon as a base for the hands instead of a rectangle. That's how I do it.

@Rougetbat 10 лет назад

***** -claps- somebody actually understands how to learn. I learn the same way by studying bone structures in the body which makes it 100 times easier to draw.

@Johntub3 10 лет назад

It's really hard to draw them just from top of my head. One have to make a lot of studies. One have to have a 3D model, drawing from photos is not helping much. Looking at anatomy pictures also helps.

@erlendoyesibarraok586 10 лет назад

Study the hand and draw it very largely, the back and front. Then draw it smaller and smaller till you get a exact scale Hands and feet are hard because we never look at someone's hands or feet, which makes it hard to imagine and draw. We normally look at their arms, chest, and most importantly eyes Or boobs/butt. BUT ANYWAY Study to Practice! Practice to Perfection!

@NinjaCoggerML 10 лет назад

I love anime. I can draw faces, but when I do mess up I go apeshit and start throwing shit.

@TheVaign 10 лет назад

Anime is not a realistic face.

@xAvitaLT 10 лет назад

***** And your point is?

@Rougetbat 10 лет назад

xAvitaLT The point is the video is talking about real face's, not anime. Did you even watch it?

@xAvitaLT 10 лет назад

Yes I did watch the same video you watched. But depends who draws anime faces some make them well anime others draw faces quite realistic in anime art style.

@person4201 7 лет назад

i find this hilarious because the one good thing im great at drawing are faces. i cant draw bodies or hands well but faces are easy

@eyebrowstosamax5464 7 лет назад

same

@Dollust 7 лет назад

Per Son I know right!!!

@CloisteredExplorer 7 лет назад

Per Son so true ;-;

@AnnaWebb37 7 лет назад

Per Son same! I'm also really good at hands... Oddly enough I'm getting better at bodies as well.

@wolvesbane1748 7 лет назад

lol I'm the conplete opposite....I can draw a body and fingers easy but faces always take me a while to draw

@Deathbydietcola 10 лет назад

I suck at realistic portraits. I Can draw in a lot of other styles but realistic is so hard... Q^Q

@Tasha3369ify 10 лет назад

Really? I'm the opposite, realistic is the only thing I find easy :P

@TheMrlilcreepz 10 лет назад

Luiz Vaz that is so true I:

@Deathbydietcola 10 лет назад

Luiz Vaz You are so right! I really regret starting with manga, its made it harder now that I'm trying to move away from that style of art.

@tgF321jikko 10 лет назад

pick up a book on classical drawing man, and practice practice practice

@demon6937 10 лет назад

i started drawing manga but when i switched to realistic drawing it was hard as fuck

@Johntub3 10 лет назад

"Do you suck at drawing faces? Ofcourse you do." for all present people who are able to draw well, I'd like to say: Speak for yourself Trace!

@mrfish-so9fm 10 лет назад

calm yoself

@smoovejl 10 лет назад

Thank you

@Guineagirl59210 10 лет назад

I think another reason we really suck at drawing faces is because we see them all the time. We end up staring at faces enough that we get picky about anything that isn't a real human (a drawing). It's like living in a world of perfect cubes. If you draw a cube that's slightly off, it's not going to look right at all. I think it's nearly impossible to draw a perfect cube, so we're all going to think every drawing sucks. It's just a theory I thought of. I don't think it's 100% right at all, but again, just an idea.

@terribletoothache 10 лет назад

Yeah, it is really obvious to us when faces don't look right because we spend so much time looking at them and they are so important to us.

@Guineagirl59210 10 лет назад

***** I agree. That's a great way to put it!

@bracoop2 10 лет назад

You are correct, in the same way that something looks "off" when we see CGI animals in films, we instantly know its just not real because we've seen them so many times. On the contrary, if we see CGI monsters or artistic versions of extinct animals we don't sense that "fakeness" as easy.

@ayo__ayo 10 лет назад

bracoop2 I think it depends on many factors weather or not something seems real. For example, when you look at this guy (www.thegnomonworkshop.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/45938_1344509894_large.jpg), you'd think that its a photograph, but its actually a 3d rendering. Animation on the other hand, can also be detected and we can see if something is fake or not, just by how its animated. As far as movies go, it has a lot to do with animation, and the lighting. To make a scene look convincing. A lot of these action movies like The Amazing Spider Man have digital doubles that are animated hyper realistically using talented artists, and automated scripts.

@terribletoothache 10 лет назад

Movement certainly makes it much more difficult to make something look convincingly real. I often think 2 dimensional portraitscan give a more believable effect than 3d renderings, though. That picture actually wasn't entirely convincing to me, it did look like a computer generated image. I think you are right about the lighting being important, too, as that is something that stood out for me in that image. That sort of animation still tends to only be believable where the face can't really be seen, as with The Amazing Spider Man.

@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time 10 лет назад

The grid system is the best way to get a likeness of a person!

@TheOneAndOnlyLewis 10 лет назад

Haha, your name!

@z8294 10 лет назад

Dat name though.

@Giedris95 10 лет назад

It kinda sucks when it comes to portraying emotion though it's best used only as an learning tool

@TheUndeadDream 10 лет назад

Actually there's a whole system called the canon of proportions to the face. A grid is okay if you're trying to copy from a picture but to have actual skill and be able to draw from life or memory the canon will far exceed the grid every time.

@samuelmcguigan3852 10 лет назад

The grid system is really good but what if you aren't drawing from a photo and you don't have anywhere to place a wire mesh frame thingy. I usually use well know proportions (eyes in middle of head, nose ends about halfway between nose and chin, the outermost bit of the nose and the innermost bit of the eye should point to the start of the eyebrow and so on and so forth) and just judge it by eye. This means that you can sketch a person in a minute or two or get a sort of accurate basis for a more in depth drawing.

@TheShaleco 9 лет назад

Holding a drawing up to a mirror or turning it upside down are two good ways too identify errors in the drawing.

@michaelbone6183 10 лет назад

People aren't much worse at drawing faces relative to anything else: it's just that we are much better at detecting inaccuracies in faces.

@RazKun 10 лет назад

I found that learning 3D modeling and sometimes animation had greatly improved my ability to draw humans. However it's a two way street. The better i am at drawing them, the better i model them. The better i model them, the easier they are to draw. But if i fall out of regular practice with either.. The skills begin to decline :/

@HerezCheez 10 лет назад

Definitely

@RazKun 10 лет назад

Oh Dang, they're onto me! xD

@ayo__ayo 10 лет назад

Yeah, my instructors said that the more you 3d model, the better you're able to draw... unfortunately, I'm better at character animating than 3d modeling.

@LithiumDinosaur 10 лет назад

I thought I was okay at drawing faces. I was taught from a very young age that the eyes are in the middle and line up with the ears. Who was taught anything different?

@raghavmishra4430 10 лет назад

***** I kno dos feels brah

@ronniejanuszki 8 лет назад

"Anim-" *closes window*

@sahilvig22 6 лет назад

Ronnië Januszki 👏

@SanHydronoid 6 лет назад

"Anim-" leans in

@dacasman 10 лет назад

I have like the opposite problem. I can draw a human face pretty well without a reference, but I can't draw anime or cartoon humans at all.

@dejonmooremariosonic 10 лет назад

that irritates me also. my friends at school are making their own manga that looks above average, while when i try it looks like a 6th grader's work -_-

@ShawnRavenfire 10 лет назад

Okay, so then why am I so bad at drawing everything else?

@maxjellinek2538 10 лет назад

faces? da hell man, hands suck way harder!

@kor57 10 лет назад

Is it ironic his name is Trace?

@123rockfan 5 лет назад

I think so, I think it’s situational irony

@timstring0902 10 лет назад

One of the best shows of d news till date. Thanks Trace 🙆👍

@Hendlton 10 лет назад

I suck at any kind of art.

@TheDragonCat99 10 лет назад

I can draw objects and even animals, but never humans. I've been greatly interested in animals since I was a little girl, so I've drawn them since then. This is how I learned to put human emotions on animal faces flawlessly. I never tried drawing a human because, in my mind, humans were boring. You saw them everyday, and there weren't very many graceful curves to draw and fur you could put cool designs in. Now when I try to draw humans, it NEVER turns out right. I'll keep practicing like you said, but I'm not sure I can do it.

@motofreak2665 10 лет назад

Wow me two I love annals drawing them is the best

@beangorl7005 10 лет назад

I know that feeling. Sometimes I draw people for things you can't do with animals, such as clothing and weapons, but I always screw up the neck... that is why I like drawing dragons. Their necks go everywhere and they don't even care.

@motofreak2665 10 лет назад

Ya I like that I suck at drawing necks but I can draw clothes and weapons

@itstoughtobehumaninaworldv1872 6 лет назад

TheDragonCat99 were same after all, I usually draw things that are peculiar and comes from my mind. I'm that kind of artist who is terrible at drawing humans and references.

@solk.posner7201 10 лет назад

Knowing this can help a lot with drawers, thanks Trace for sharing :D

@odobenus159 10 лет назад

No professional artist should be going off of just reference images. If you want to be a professional artist, you need to know a little about the anatomy of what you are making.

@windragon12343 10 лет назад

Nope hands are the real struggle. Feet too. Faces are fun. THEN HANDS- the sausages. I'm decent at drawing self taught... for my age? Everything I do is cartoony, why should I do realistic things when we have cameras? Whoop.

@bluelou3000 10 лет назад

Oh my god I hate HANDS! They're just...FRUSTRATING

@tgF321jikko 10 лет назад

You should learn how to do realistic things because all styles are based off of life. If you just want to draw as a little hobby ignore this, but if you want to be an actual artist learn how to draw like an actual artist.

@danimaru9714 6 лет назад

i have no problem with hands and faces. Feet are hard for me

@kristinaadamik3578 8 лет назад

I'm actually really good at drawing I don't know why I'm here

@apatheticpanda182 6 лет назад

Ikr! me too

@jamie5617 10 лет назад

hands are difficult too!

@ronniejanuszki 8 лет назад

Do you suck at drawing faces? Of course you do, because science."

@yooitsameee6355 8 лет назад

THE ONLY EXPLENATION

@peppermintier4484 8 лет назад

I don't believe in science :/ There is ALWAYS another explanation that my brain can come up with.

@TheQuietTyper 10 лет назад

I'm alright at faces, then again, faces and heads are what I draw the most.

@imyouandurme 10 лет назад

I'm actually very good at drawing faces. I began scribbling on the back of my homework assignments around the age of seven (yeah, fuck school, I'm an artist goddammit). I first began paying close attention to photographs and very carefully transposing that image onto paper WITHOUT TRACING (you cheaters). After a while, I began to pay closer attention to people's faces, studying the subtle nuances of facial expressions. After several years of practice, I became so comfortable drawing faces I was drawing them without a photo reference, even though I still use photographs as a reference. The real magic happens when you learn to add little quirks that don't appear in the photo, such as making the eyes more expressive, making the jawline stronger and accentuating or even flat out exaggerating the muscle-tone, lifting the cheek bones, etc. Then there's the anatomy of the human body, which I also excel at, but that's a whole other area of study. But in general, it's the same process: OBSERVE and PRACTICE.

@PapilioTea 10 лет назад

that is legitimately the best drawing I have ever seen.....I'm crying....so beautiful.....

@Uzzy379 10 лет назад

I tell u the secret .we draw eyes on top of the face to make room for nose and mouth . Am i right or wrong ?

@MGC-XIII 10 лет назад

well i kept looking at trace and I am pretty sure the eyes are not in the midle of the face.. or maybe it just looks like that when the mouth is closed

@kuroorchid2455 9 лет назад

I'm alright at anime faces but I'm not very good at realistic except for the drawing of Taylor Swift I did, pretty proud of that one.

@devilishmorgue6969 8 лет назад

+JacquelineThePurpleGirl haha lol me to

@springgreengoober 8 лет назад

+JacquelineThePurpleGirl much prefer doing anime,realistic ones are booooring

@gocanadayayyy 10 лет назад

Well, I tried to draw a picture of my boyfriend's face from the side once, and it ended up looking like Putin. Sigh.

@camelspiderattack4161 10 лет назад

that's funny; I tried to draw a portrait of Putin and it wound up looking like Bruce Willis. ae you dating Bruce Willis?

@gocanadayayyy 10 лет назад

Hahahaha no lol

@secretagentcandy 10 лет назад

I like to draw a lot, and it took awhile to get eyes in the right spot. A thing that always bothered me was that once a little girl was watching me, and asked "Why are the eyes in the wrong spot?" I asked her where the eyes should go, and she pointed at the top of the forehead. Kids tho.

@l.clevelandmajor9931 10 лет назад

I have been drawing since the age of six, and I always knew the actual position of the eyes. It is because I have always been very observant and detail oriented. You could say I am a perfectionist and you would not be wrong. When my classmates were still drawing stick figures, and putting the eyes at the top of the head, I was actually looking at what I wanted to draw and trying to match it exactly. Of course those early drawings were a bit crude, but I had everything basically in the correct place, including the the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair, and even the eyebrows and eyelashes. My teachers were amazed at my ability to see and draw what I was looking at so well. I know! People think I'm tooting my own horn! Yes I am, but it is backed up by all the praise and all the people that have wanted to be drawn by me. At the age of 21 I did a large series of drawings of every customer at a local bar, and proprietor had a whole wall dedicated to those drawings behind the bar I sat at as I drew. While I agree with your statements, which are of course backed up by research, I also know personally that there are exceptions to every rule, and that is backed up by my own life!

@IllSkillz 10 лет назад

im not drawing faces, I model it then texture it, then rig it, then animate it, then light it, then render it, and then compose it. Oh man im so good at it

@odobenus159 10 лет назад

Hubris will be your downfall.

@twistedpixel756 10 лет назад

odobenus159 he gets more chicks than you do though...

@odobenus159 10 лет назад

Dylan Anderson I bet he does too.

@jlw9113 10 лет назад

I'm pretty alright at faces but as relatively experienced artist, some of the things you did didn't apply to me. I think for an actual artist the difficultly is capturing the subtleties. The nuances of the the many curves involved in drawing an eye to look exactly like a picture is quite difficult. I would definitely agree it takes time and practice. Fundamentally I think art (real art) is about seeing well. When you see well you draw well.

@BAMBAMii95 10 лет назад

Agreed. Most of the aspects mentioned do not apply to me either. As you said it's those nuances that need to be as best as possible. I don't struggle with faces but it's definitely practice and lots of it over the years and spending about 70% of our time looking and the rest putting to paper/canvas.

@tamerahdortzbach8804 7 лет назад

This is so true, I always have to remind myself of where the eyes go. Granted, with my chosen style, I could get away with putting the eyes a little higher or lower on the face.

@lenawooly 10 лет назад

that's why you're supposed to learn how to draw skulls if you really want to draw good faces. a huge part of portraiture is anatomy. we also tend to make the eyes way too large, and i've heard this is because these are the main features we focus on when talking to a person

@ScottLewis 10 лет назад

EVERYBODY DO THE 'UNNO!

@ItsPeij 10 лет назад

Me: *vaguely listening* -"ARE YOU A FAN OF ANIME?"- Me: WHA -"OR K-POP?"- Me: YES YES WHY I have a problem.

@spacelyft2418 9 лет назад

***** We have the same profile picture XD

@AneSkott 10 лет назад

also as children we are thaught the symbols for the different features instead of actually learning to draw what we see. Like eyes are drawn like two oval shapes with dots in the middle and the mouth like a wide u-shape. The problem is there is no such simplified symbol for the forehead and therefore children tend to just leave that part out. The secret to drawing is drawing what you see, not what you think you see

@Armadder 7 лет назад

It's funny cause sometimes I'll draw the eyes rather low on the face, giving my character a big forehead, maybe back in elementary school I would draw the eyes slightly higher from a normal face but from there on they stayed in the middle of the face.

@madcrownart5896 7 лет назад

I love drawing and anime but I'm not perfect yet but I'm getting there😊

@_noctivagus_ 8 лет назад

_The answer to why I am such a terrible artist_ *_I have found it_* And no I don't like K-pop I don't get why it's a thing now

@peppermintier4484 8 лет назад

Neither.

@_noctivagus_ 8 лет назад

Neither what?

@peppermintier4484 8 лет назад

+Ξ Ňøcŧıvαgυƨ Ƈσɍαx Ξ i don't like k-Pop

@the_socialphobic_girl 6 лет назад

As an artist I consider my self pretty good at it but it gets harder when I paint realistically but it gets easier if u practice

@ixiahj 9 лет назад

faces have so much detail. whenever I see a face, i don't notice the individual differences in their nose shapes or eyes distances from everything else on the face and stuff, i just see the whole face as a single thing.

@Zulusango 10 лет назад

Science is the new religion.

@isthisusernamelong 10 лет назад

@Revisorycarrot1 10 лет назад

isthisusernamelong yes

@stinknus 10 лет назад

I do worship science every morning, I pray for the progress of science before I sleep or eat.

@LuiKang043 10 лет назад

A religion which accepts it's flaws with total transparency in front of the people it is subject to? Then sure, that religion is respectable.

@princeofexcess 10 лет назад

And cheese is a new meat :D

@CascadianBraeden 10 лет назад

Faces aren't that hard, it's always the hands that always bug me.

@starsstory3141 10 лет назад

The hands are easy to draw Anime face don't count

@PhillyphilKO 9 лет назад

I think hands are feet are harder to draw because they don't really have a definite shape. The face is pretty much just an oval/circle, the torso is usually represented by either rectangles or ovals (depending on the artist's style), and the limbs are basically just long rectangles. The hands aren't so simple. They kind of have their own structure. Here's how I do hands: The base of the hand is a stumpy rectangle, the thumb is a circle with a couple rounded rectangles on top, and the fingers are all just series of rectangles stacked on top of each other with subtle curves thrown in. I've seen people use diamond shapes and rhomboids for hands and feet, and I've also seen lines for where the fingers go, so it really just depends on which method is easiest to you.

@OreoBunny123 10 лет назад

We have to draw self portraits in art. I can't even look at my face for 5 seconds without cringing. And of course, my drawing looks, NOTHING like me.

@awepicness 10 лет назад

I drew a picture of Jesus for art when I went to a catholic school and I messed up his eyes and he looked high. I drew a baked Jesus.

@silinli9587 10 лет назад

I can draw anime faces, but not human faces.... :/ Uhhh.... *Smurrr*

@gracies.5021 10 лет назад

Haha same when the art teacher is like draw a "realistic" person I'm like 0-0.... May I be excused?

@silinli9587 10 лет назад

Gracie S Sherrill lol rightt? but luckily, my art teacher lets me draw anime. Theres a gigantic anime pic on the wall in our classroom

@nxm3sis 8 лет назад

Welp, I like anime eyes lol

@paytonsimmons5995 8 лет назад

me too!

@PopeYoda 10 лет назад

For some reason I feel like this isn't the first time I have paused a DNews video to draw you.

@SuchLovelyPoison 9 лет назад

Faces were a problem for me growing up, I tended to make them more cartoon looking and elongated; however I realized this problem and when I got into college I started to draw them realistically to hone in on that problem. I would do anywhere from 5-15 full figure illustrations of real people a week. Needless to stay yes, practice makes perfect and I draw people significantly better now.

@chesster423 10 лет назад

my profile pic is my drawing

@CariagaXIII 10 лет назад

awesome ;)

@robloxgaming9313 10 лет назад

Wow there are like no comments XD

@KillerCombow 10 лет назад

this is what you tube has done ;w;

@sakura-xw4cm 10 лет назад

First off I learned that in art class last trimester and that pretty cool that people didn't go to simple art classes

@Pasha231514 2 года назад

This effect also affects how we draw proportions of objects in scenes. Sight-Size is a way starting artists fight in. Encajar method on the other hand doing same thing but also teaches you to see differently, like an artist, making you see language of shapes.

@Theanimeaddict2000 10 лет назад

I LOVE ANIME!!!!!

@butwhatmotive1467 8 лет назад

😂😂😂 why is anime the only relevant thing when it comes to drawing. I swear every art page is anime like tf

@hannah48844 10 лет назад

This will help greatly. I tend to draw in an anime-type style, and I don't usually draw the features that high, but they're a bit too high up occasionally. There are times when I completely fumble and draw something that looks off and strange.

@ArnoldTohtFan 10 лет назад

So does this explain why the faces in most old paintings are so ugly?

@TheRockyCrowe 10 лет назад

HUMAN faces is something that took me a good few years to get XD SOO MUCH PRACTICE!! I look back at my souphmore year drawings in highschool and just 'cringe' at the horrible disfigured, misplaced looking things I called 'people.' The circle system (sketch a circle and then make two lines for where the eyes should be positioned) helped me IMMENSELY!! *^* My suggestion is to practice realism first so you've a general idea of how the human anatomy is. Then from there develop your own style!

@Leon612 10 лет назад

What if you're drawing somone who has no eyes?

@TheCheesburger141 7 лет назад

I used to draw like a 3 year old 12 hours a day, 2 months long and I finally can draw something somewhat realistic

@George_Azeria 10 лет назад

Was talking to my friends about this yesterday.

@ShawnHCorey 10 лет назад

To test the hair-as-hat hypothesis, have people draw the faces of bald people. If they have no hair, then it should be easier to get the eyes in the correct place. :)

@XboxLiveKingVideot 10 лет назад

Of course I suck at drawing faces! I suck at drawing in general!

@peSKAditasDrogaditas 10 лет назад

Traaaaace, some patterns on your shirt made it really hard for me to focus on this video.!! Gimmie that shirt I'll sew it correctly!

@lillybeans21 10 лет назад

I found this interesting because although I'm by no means a professional, every art teacher I've ever had has said I have a knack for faces. It's mostly because I have done research on facial and body proportions and because my teacher always reminds me to draw what is actually in front of me, not what I know to be there. Like when people that think they're the best portrait artists in the class and make dark outlines around everything especially noses.

@TheBaldingPied 10 лет назад

I've always had more trouble drawing hands than faces. But then again... I draw in a semi-realistic anime style...

@GreyFang9 10 лет назад

I am prih-tay good at drawing... and have a fair bit of practice and still suffer from the biases mentioned. I have to consciously put effort into the initial strokes I make to get the foundation shapes and positions right.

@elenna_alexia 10 лет назад

I suck at drawing faces, but I never really practiced drawing them either. In school art class I actually was decent at drawing, so this kind of stood out. But not only faces, human features in general.

@popupanimash 10 лет назад

i can draw, but not faces. i just finished my first art class in college and it was all about still lives. i didn't understand how someone could make something look real just by using a pencil because i am a cartoonist. by the end of the semester i completely understood how people made apples, bones, and even fabric come to life. its amazing what the basics can teach you.

@Mackerachi 10 лет назад

As an artist, I believe it's the second hypothesis. The hair as a hat one. Because we focus so much on the facial features, we perceive the hair as a secondary trait and something that we can just put on top afterwards, thus we see the face shape as something that only goes to the hairline, making us place the eyes further up on the oval. A little bit of practice and knowledge of where features are supposed to be will fix that quickly.

@alienum77 10 лет назад

actually that makes sense to me! I'm good at drawing, but I always fall short of space for the forehead :x meaning I draw the eyes too high near the hair line...

@BrutalExoticsTV 10 лет назад

I'm good at drawing faces and drawing in general! it's not hard but it takes a while to finish a drawing

@EDKsurly 10 лет назад

I dabble in art. Capturing someones essence is not easy.

@MarioDoiron 10 лет назад

I'm a classically trained artist with 20+ years experience drawing the human figure, painting portraits and things. Drawing faces is still very hard to this day. You really do have to trick the brain to go away and let you observe the subject as it is.

@kirpid 10 лет назад

I'm actually pretty learned at drawing. It's all about the big picture. Detail is what the audience is drawn to, but until an artist can learn to ignore detail entirely, they have no business drawing the detail.

@dcordin 10 лет назад

in grade school art class the fact that eyes are centered from top to bottom is one of the first things you learn.

@leeboonkang2 10 лет назад

I can draw really well eyes, nose and mouth. putting them together, i fail so hard that my picture dun even look lik human anymore.

@ramuneglass9233 8 лет назад

yes i do like anime, but since i do so much i got stuck on drawing only anime now I'm drawing realistic and i never knew the eyes where on the center i just let myself guide by the ears and some spaces between eye and ears that there is

@luckynbr13 10 лет назад

I sort of learned this from when I was in drawing and paining class in high school. when you draw the head shape you find the middle and thats where you put the eyes which when you first do it it looks so wrong until you get to the hair.

@Matoloko12 10 лет назад

It also has a lot to do with what people see when they see people: the face. Like making a movie and getting the character's head in the screen, all you gotta get is the face, the forehead/hair are ok to be out of view

@NER0BLAST 10 лет назад

i'm actually pretty good at drawing faces.... i pay attention to details... is that bad ?

@sirbeautimus5346 6 лет назад

I like how when he talks about cells he shows a portion of a video about Triple E from Monsters Inside Me.

@stephenhorton 10 лет назад

I think it's a mixture of reasons, but one that wasn't mentioned is that eyebrows are darker and cheek bones are lighter (due to them catching more light with them protruding) and we see the dark areas as where the eyes are. As the majority of the dark area is above the eyes this pulls them higher on the face. The space between the eyes and eyebrows is also visually larger than we perceive and are also a lot darker increasing this.

@susannahpfanstiel1048 8 лет назад

What about people not being able to draw good hands???

@BUD7H357UD 10 лет назад

Trace did you mean the Animatrix?

@barryallenflash1 10 лет назад

Thanks for the cool vid Trace!!! I'm actually pretty good at drawing faces. I have drawn, Christopher Reeves, Adam West and John Wesley-Shipp....ALL superheroes...I KNOW!! Right?. Working on Lynda Carter, Burt Ward and William Katt. When I get done with them ALL..I'll post them on fb and send you my link. Thanks again for sharing..this was...well I already said!

@heff4heather 10 лет назад

Interesting, I was always good at drawing faces but this was probably because Iearnt this trick early on in art at school, always draw the face shape first, then a line half way through where the eyes should be.

@GathGealaich 10 лет назад

I thought we had some special circuitry in our heads for recognizing faces? If that conjecture holds, drawing faces could be more difficult objectively simply because we can easily tell when something is amiss (as opposed to, say, recognizing wrong-looking trees unless you're actually an arborist).

@Ifer30 9 лет назад

As an artist, my understanding is that we place greater importance on the features of the face, while mentally ignoring the equally large forehead and hairline because they are less important for understanding emotion and recognizing the person. This also explains why we often draw eyes and heads in general as considerably larger than they actually are.

@ezenart 10 лет назад

How is hair a part of the head and not sitting on top of it? As far as I understand it is not.

@penholmes688 10 лет назад

As a kid, I did tend to draw the eyes too high, but fortunately for me the age old method of drawing heads and faces was passed down to me pretty early on. So, yup.

@wongwanchap 10 лет назад

I think this is just because we are good in recognizing face. So we can spot the difference between the face and picture, but not for other drawing.

@lauran2515 10 лет назад

I did always wonder why it is so tempting to draw eyes at the top of the face, especially to children/people without art experience. Personally I find faces relatively easy to draw, only because they're pretty much all I ever end up doing when I'm doodling casually. For me the texture of hair/fur, glass objects and folds in material are the hardest to capture.