

Taking into account the shaded areas helps to understand the volumes. Notice how a nose can be realistically represented. This will gradually begin to resemble a realistic nose, your first steps to making an easy drawing of a nose. Structure of the nose, translate those rectangular and flattened elements into curved and spherical shapes. Or try to enlarge it a bit more when you are looking for a nose with wider nostrils. For the main structure of the nose, imagine a rectangle that can be narrowed at will as it gets closer to the tip of the nose. Below, we have various simplifications of the nose, separated by color. Using flat and rectangular shapes will help you understand it’s volume. Try to imagine the different basic shapes that make up a nose and break it down. If you follow this order, it will be much easier to draw the nose you need even without a face drawing reference. Once you grasp the basic foundation of something, it greatly helps when recreating it in another drawing style, from realistic to an anime nose. Understanding the nose: Basic structureīefore you start drawing noses in different styles and shapes, it’s best to secure your understanding of its basic structure. One of the objectives is to be able to draw a unique, expressive, creative face that has personality.įor this tutorial, I mainly used Clip Studio Paint EX for iPad, although you can adapt all the explanations to other graphic apps such as Procreate, Photoshop, etc.ġ. From there, you can see how to draw noses even more complex and in different shapes and sizes. In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw a nose easily using its simplest and most basic shapes.
