Draw a Young Girl's Face

Template:StubDrawing a little girl's face is not so difficult. You just need a picture and some patience, and the results can be breathtaking.

Steps

Draw a circle for the head.
Sketch the draft lines for the face. Draw a vertical rectangle and a line dividing it.
Sketch the draft lines for the mouth and nose. Draw it beneath the line which divides the rectangle into 2. Leave a reasonable space between it and the 2draft lines.
Draw the jaw line.
Draw 2 curve lines for the eyes and a line for the nasal part.
Draw the nose and mouth. The nose and mouth could vary depending on the expression being depicted.
Add more details to the eyes. You could experiment on this, too, depending on your style.
Draw the hair. Don’t forget that the hair should be outside the circle sketched for the head so that it won’t look weird.
Add the neck and the ears. The ears should not be so big and the neck should be placed on the right place which is along the vertical line of the face. Also, the neck should not be too thin as to look weird.
Erase the draft lines.
Add more details to the face and especially the hair.

Select an image. Put it on a powerpoint slide and make a square grid on it with horizontal row markings with alphabet and vertical column markings with numbers.
Copy the outlines of the image onto your paper by making a similar grid on paper and using the powerpoint slide as a guide.
Start with the eyes, as eyes are often the defining feature of a sketch.
Draw the cheek contours, following the parent image as a guideline.
Fill in other details, such as the hair and chin etc.
Complete the hair strands on all sides and correct for shades to make the sketch look three-dimensional.

You will not get the sketches looking life-like in one go. So, have patience and keep trying. You'll improve with time
Check for shades as you progress.
For soft tone areas (like the forehead and cheeks), use cotton or your finger for shading
Use a good sketching pencil set. For most light tones, use an HB or 2B pencil. For hair and irises, use 4B or 6B.
Spend sufficient amount of time in making the backbone of the sketch by focusing on the outlines. This will make sure that the image doesn't look disproportionate.

Watch out for smudges because of lead powder sticking on your hands as you sketch. Wash your hands intermittently to prevent such accidental smudges.

A good sketch book. Paper thicker than 200 gsm is recommended
A good sketch pencil set (preferably in the range HB to 8B)
A good ruler
Computer with powerpoint enabled
A target image (you may gift such sketches to your family/friends too by making them from their photos)
A BIN !