If you are the kind of person who identifies yourself as someone who cannot draw a straight line, then the idea of drawing a face may be a little daunting to you. The fact is, everybody has <em><strong>some basic level</strong></em> of drawing skill. I suspect that you are even more capable of drawing a face than you may realize.

Let's look at an example of a face that might be drawn by someone who is considered a beginning artist with little drawing skill:
<p style="text-align: center;">[start pic of face]</p>
Even if this is what you consider as the extent of your drawing capabilities, this is a good thing! This can be used as a foundation for creating a more impressive face drawing. The reason that some drawings look more professional or more appealing than others is very simple - attention to detail!

The goal of this one lesson is not to take you from a beginning artist to someone who can create a breathtaking portrait drawing that looks like a photograph. That does not happen in one day (although it <strong><em>can happen</em></strong> much sooner than you think).

We are not dealing with any complicated shading or blending techniques here. The goal of this lesson is to bring more attention to detail to what you are already doing - your line drawings. A line drawing is a drawing made up of lines and little to no shading.

The more detail you add to a simple line drawing, the more it will <strong><em>gradually</em></strong> take on a realistic appearance.

To help trigger your powers of observation and begin to add those subtle little details to your drawings, I have come up with a list of 15 details beginning artists commonly overlook when they draw a face. Let's see how adding these 15 simple little things to the drawing above can improve our face drawing a bit.

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