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How To Draw An Easy Face Step By Step In Marker (Video 1 in #100funfabfaces Challenge)

May 29, 2021
Hello guys, how are you? I'm so excited to be here today because I have a fun new exciting happening that I wanted to share with you in my Facebook group. If this is your first visit to my channel, how are you? It's Karen Campbell. I'm the founder of an amazing art school and the author of the How to Draw Funny Fat Faces series, as well as my new book on mixed media magic, so today I'm diving in. I'm starting. #100 Fun Fab takes on the quick series

challenge

if you choose to take it, what we're going to do is, um, every Friday I'll do a full demo tutorial here on YouTube and post it to my well. here for any of you who want to follow me, but I'm also going to put this in my Facebook group, which is just looking for an awesome art school.
how to draw an easy face step by step in marker video 1 in 100funfabfaces challenge
I will put the link on the screen and also in the description box below so if you want to join the Facebook group and see what everyone else is doing that would be awesome so I will do a post every Friday for 20 weeks . Your job is to accept those messages if you wish or you can ignore this entire

video

. Do completely whatever you want, that's fine, but what I'd like you to do for practice is make five

face

s from that message and I want you to think about doing something different with each

face

you

draw

, so maybe you'll have exactly the same thing. face, but you only do five different hairstyles or maybe you do the same face and change the lighting, so the shadows on the face and the shading will be different for everyone and I know many of you have problems with shading, shadows and the lights, so what I'm doing is, if you go into the description box below, I'll put in there a free pdf of a shading guide that I put together that's in my first book on how to

draw

funny fabulous faces, actually it's in the second edition, but it's been out for a couple of years now, it's not in the first edition, but I think most of you already have the second one anyway, but if you don't, that's it.
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Good, because I'm going to put it in the description box. You can go ahead and grab that shading guide. It's a PDF, so you can download it and have it at home as a resource and that only shows 1, two, three, I think. There are nine different shading angles so if the light source is coming from here then it is dark over here and if the light course is coming straight then you will get Shadows here so it will go through all of them which will help . Hopefully I'll inspire you to try different shades on your faces, so if you're posting you and I do five, I want you to do five that way, there's no pressure to do one every day, you can skip two days and keep going. in the

challenge

so it's not so stressful if you post your work on Facebook or Instagram if you want to use a hashtag 100 Fun fat faces because we're going to do 100 Fun fat faces, right? grab the free link if you want help and I'm ready to go at the end of this

video

tutorial.
how to draw an easy face step by step in marker video 1 in 100funfabfaces challenge
I'm going to have a lot of new and fun news for you, so if you want to hear about it, just watch The Bitter End and it will be there for you. Otherwise, enjoy today's demo and tutorial and last but not least, I know there are a lot of beginners doing this challenge, so I'll go

step

by

step

in real time. I'm going to keep this all in real time for the most part, so I hope that gives you as many learning possibilities as possible. Okay, let's start our challenge, this is the first day, let's do it right today.
how to draw an easy face step by step in marker video 1 in 100funfabfaces challenge
I'm drawing with this amazing mechanical pencil. Graph Gear 1000 was recommended to me by Jenny Mano and she was also the person that I contacted about this challenge because she's like an expert on challenges and tips and I was like, “Oh, I can't draw a face every day for 100.” . I have three kids and I do a lot of laundry every day, so she recommended once a week, which I love, that's what she does with her doctor in her group. You can see her on Next Generation Art, which is on Facebook, and she does amazing. art activities on her Facebook group so check it out thanks Jenny okay then let's draw so first let's draw an oval.
I'm going to hold my paper like this because it's comfortable, so it's not. front and when I'm doing my oval I keep my I'm moving my whole arm like you can see me right now my arm is bent but I'm actually moving it from my shoulder and I'm not I'm not doing this like my whole shoulder is swinging with me like this it's like I make my ovals trying to improve the lighting here, that's not better, okay, and then I don't know, it's always nice I have a weird, crooked neck, right, it's more exciting than a paddle neck, okay, okay, I'll go to go into the sides for the temples, that's optional, but it makes them look a little sexier, I really don't know what. the word is who you see that's not good but it's okay have your eraser handy it's no big deal running weird lines trying to shape my chin and if you need to draw 100 ovals to start then draw 100 ovals to start . and don't even worry about it, just delete them, okay, now I need to get the proportions right, so I'm making a line in the center like this and then I'll make a vertical line in the center like this. now I'm going to take this line that cuts my oval in half, I'm going to divide it again and then I'm going to take this space and I'm going to divide it again, okay and I think this whole idea from Jenny says you know how to do five variations, It's actually cool because it forces you to make the same face over and over and almost like it's perfect, and then you're just making little changes, which I don't know, all this practice is just Very cool, okay, so with the eyes you can do a lot, but I like to do mine with three on a realistic face, actually I would have five across, but I'm not going to do a realistic face today.
I'm not going to use a reference either. And that will definitely change, but this is our first day, so I'm starting slowly, okay, the nose will go here, so I'll make a little oval there and then the mouth is here and all of this is inside. My book on how to draw funny faces in the first one, there are three in the series, but this is number one and it's all there step by step for you, so I'm going to start by making these little lines with canes. on each side because that's where our tear duct is going to come out and I'm going to follow this line at the top of my oval and notice how oops notice how flattened my ovals are they are very flattened I think it's a big mistake people What they do is that They make them too circular, they are quite flattened, they are quite flattened.
I mean, obviously you can do whatever you want, especially if they're whimsical, but that's something I notice a lot and it's probably the biggest visual flaw as well. See, the eyes are closed together, you need a whole eyeball between them, so, especially if your eyes are very big, that's definitely the most common mistake and then there's only so much space between them, which is not good, you have I have to put some space. there and there it's actually better to have more space, like if you're going to vent on the side that doesn't have the right space in the middle, have them further apart instead of too close together, so I'm adding these little things like rip hooks. ducts and then I'm finding the bottom of my oval line again and then I'm going to have them join forces.
Now I notice that on this side I only have that much space and on this side I have that much room so you can I want to match them up, so bring one in or take one out, it doesn't really matter which one you choose, but again, these proportions are what make your face don't look like a mess, that's fine, try to match them as best you can. The face is perfect even in real life, so close enough and just so you know, today I'm going to work on alcohol

marker

s. There are many different brands, but I bought a new set.
I'm going to try it, so let's go. look at our eyes, we want the eyelids to have to cut off that iris, so it doesn't matter if well, let me back up, you need to draw a full circle so you can get these eyes right so they can sit here, they can sit. here the circle can be drawn anywhere, but this has to be your iris, which is the color of the eye, it has to be cut from the top or bottom or both by the eyelid so you can put it wherever you want. To put mine in the center, I usually don't draw the full circle anymore, but I do it for illustrative purposes so you can see it's a little tricky, also use a stencil if you don't know how to do it.
Do that, you know, use something like take something that's the right size and trace it or you can get a template like a circle which I have too, but when I say cut, you only see this part and you both see the circle being cut. at the top and bottom, oh I was just highlighting the wrong part there and then you erase the extra bits, okay and then all of this can come out. There are many different ways to draw noses that are fun, but I'll do it again. the easiest kind, um, let's see, we'll do two little Chubbies on each side, you can darken the nostrils like this and then you can draw like your little parentheses.
I like to call them on each side and a way to be cute and then delete. the rest of the parts in a cute way, you can also draw like some people draw like the nose ball circle, which is kind of cute and then you do the shading based on that and then I'm going to make these little little lines that I They lead directly to where the lips are going to start and they're kind of in line with where my mouth is because my guidelines were right, so I'm going to place a V right here and Boop widens it and then I always draw. the bottom of the top Li NE, so this kind of shadows, the first line and then the lower lip, you can make it thin, you can make it fat, you can make it start up here, it can be very thin or you can make it any broad. whatever you want so you can play with it, even if you like it, keep making the same face and just change your mouth every time, those little changes are what make all your faces different from each other, which is a lot of fun, it's okay, clear some of these guidelines, okay, no ears, I'm just not drawing ears because the ears are stupid and then the hair, everyone gets scared by the hair, don't be scared by the hair, it's fun, you pick the part.
I've made a lot of these videos recently. I have a lot of resources for you, so choose a part of the scalp somewhere, so I'll put it here and the hair has to reach the oval of the forehead and then also up and over the top of the head and again. This is all in my book. I only made a few, so if you want to have bangs, you can include them in this circle. Don't be afraid to put them in your circle guys just do it okay so I'm making some. Today's bangs never make bangs and again, hair has volume so this is going to come out and you can do it and it's going to come out from anywhere, it goes up and up.
I just feel these like spikes today. I don't know why they just Damn there's no reason okay so the hair goes up and up and up and maybe there are some that come here like that literally do whatever you want so again in your five prompts maybe just change your hair every time. Good practice for hair. I'm going to erase his oval at the top of his head and maybe a strand will come out here. Yes, I don't know. I'm just making this up as I go. It doesn't matter. and then we have to go back to our eyes and finish them by trying to think this looks a little naked so the pupils can be small or large.
This is a little bit big today and again, ideally, it looks a little bit better if the pupils also cut me, but it doesn't really matter and then you need an eyelid. Today I am going to have your eyelids very small so that they come out of the tear duct. Today I have all the angular lines. I don't always work like this. but again, when you do all these facial practices, it's a very good practice because you can change, like maybe tomorrow I'll have a soft, you know, my lines will be soft and smooth, so every time you change them, it just alters a lot. . the expression, the eyebrows start in the same place as the ducks' tears, so maybe she says and I'm going to use my Copic again, so I'm doing these fats because I'm going to color them, okay, get rid of. of some of these guidelines that are still in effect and now I'm ready to use my Copic to color it.
The first thing I'm going to do is take a regular Sharpie and outline it, okay, and you can use a regular Sharpie or you can use a fine one. I usually like to style the hair around the face in a darker one and then I like the features inside it in a thin one, I'm not sure I care that much, and then I'm changing and actually what I'm going to do is continue with this and I'll show you why when I go to color them I love drawing faces, okay, it's fun, it's so fun, it's so fun.
Then our eyebrows get thinner with Sharpie so people can go back with a white

marker

to add a little sparkle to the eyes or when you're drawing it, you can leave part of the people open just to make sure. I want to have a little sparkle in my eyes at some point, but you can always go backand add it and then I'll do my tabs at the end. I'm going to delete all my superfluous lines. Okay, the only thing I don't do. It's not like his head up there looks really weird, but it does. Right, I'm wearing these.
I'm super intrigued. I bought them at Barnes & Noble. um, but you know, what intrigued me was the fact that it says archival because most of the alcohol-based markers included are not lightfast or archival, you know. by definition it means they won't fade for about 70 years, so I thought it was a good investment. I usually avoid my Copic when I'm doing something, you know, on a project that I'm really worried about lasting. I won't use them and in fact I also write about it in my mixed media magic book in my chapter on types of supplies. It's like I love copics, but I don't tend to use them because I mean permanent projects because they fade. um but these aren't as good so these are my skin tone this is the skin tone pack and it looks like a good variety.
I should color a sample of these like super duper duper quick, let me get another sheet of paper, and these are also double tipped this is powder oh that's pretty this is what is this or white skin WR this powder white skin OT um what is this what the hell mocha I just had like a super brain fart I'm like what am I doing and two more these are good colors I'm not going to lie I'm a little obsessed with alcohol markers I have a giant stash no matter what I say I avoid them I hoard them too coke cocoa coco I don't know oh This is amazing and Ebony, okay, sweet.
I think I'm going to do it as a mid-range. I think I'm going to make these apricot and mocha ones, so you should always pick at least two, if not three. I could too if I want to be really dramatic. I can do three when you're shading. You always need to have at least two. um apricot, where are you? So I'm going to go over his entire face now with the alcohol markers that you have. To move quickly or you'll get really permanent streaks, but if you move fast, I actually have a whole video on tips for coloring with alcohol markers.
I'll link it to him and the card to move quickly, very quickly, so you don't. get those stripes, I'm a bit sorry, Facey and my faces are usually quite big so it's harder to draw quickly when the areas of your face are so large, but do your best and each time you apply a second coat , it gets darker there, so that's it. Well, move as fast as you can and hopefully you won't make it. You can also do this, if it's a smaller drawing, you can do little circular motions, which tends to work a little better now.
It's also good. I should mention that you should try to avoid Sharpie, now Sharpies are alcohol based markers. Also, I don't know if you knew this or not, but you don't want to, you don't want to go over them that much. There are people who have yelled at me to help me. Sharpie blood on my face and yeah you don't want to like draw over your Sharpie lines you want to avoid them because they will drag a little bit on your drawing or bleed so try to go around them leaving a little bit of white and then so this whole series of challenges is going to be really good for everyone, it's good for me because I've been very busy with my business, but I also need practice, that never goes away.
Everyone needs to practice to hone their skills but also to keep them cool so this is really good it's great practice for all of us so now we're ready for our second layer of shading and some of these wet bits will start to disappear, so you can start very slow if you're afraid to add a lot of shading, just use the same color you just used again or if you're not afraid, then come with me, we're going to improve this, so we have to start shading. to wherever there is Shadow, so there will always be Shadow, wherever there is hair falling on his face, you will have a little line of Shadow there, so that's the first thing we can do, okay, so let's do that and then There is also usually shading around here and there is always shading on the neck because the chin sticks out and then it will cast a shadow on this neck, so you can first highlight the shadow areas, okay, and then the nose is not made up of lines, It's actually made up of shadow and shadow, so I'm going to start screaming and it looks like someone punched it in the face because it doesn't have a nose.
Bridge because we haven't added any sha shading yet, so I'm going to do it under the nose. it's always shadowed, just like in that little Lippy dippy, so I always start with the eyes. Okay, so the bridge of the nose is formed by our shadow and then it continues around the eye, if they are big, she has cheekbones, it will also appear and then I'm leaving a little highlight here to be like a shadow and then that little triangle can stay where she is and this is probably all in Shadow because this is a pretty big clump of hair, so even if we move to the side, I mean you can start to get a picture of who she is.
This side is also shaded and I like to do the shading where it is more pronounced on one side than the other because it looks more dramatic. This one also shadows it so you can do the same. this and then usually under the chin lips there's a little bit of a lip, a dipped lip, okay, and you could stop and do nothing more than that, if you wanted to soften the shading a little bit more, you have so many options that you could take the original. color and like if you wanted to blend this because it was because the contrast was too big, you could do that, so repeating, if you notice I'm putting it like in the transition between the first and second color to blend them more and more. that's less drama, if you wanted more drama, you could draw, you could pick the next color on your value scale and go and do one more pass.
Today I have little time, so I'm going to look for some colors and fill in her hair. Alright, I'm about to start dying her hair, I'm just going to add like another strand down there, this is really bothering me up here, but again, it doesn't really matter, this is just for fun, I could do this all day . Cut our head into different segments, so I have some greens and blues because I'm feeling very creative today, so here goes nothing, so the mouth that I'm making like this is blueish. Pink color by Prisma we can do a little line for her tear du and she really needs some eyelashes I feel like her hair also needs more doodles what do you think oh yeah him then another little detail you can do the eyes to put a little shadow how dark is this oh, that's too dark with a little bit of gray you can put a little shadow on top, okay.
I think that's enough of a message to start with. You can always go back with a white marker and doodle some more. You could have a complete and utter Heyday. and you get like again, you can also add drama to this by adding another layer of a darker skin color, make our lips a little more dimension, so there you go, the first week we have our Copic green lover, that it's what I'm going to do. call her my green mistress Copic I hope you enjoyed this and I hope you got a lot out of it and yeah I can't wait to see your prompts #100 fat faces and um I really want to continue this face drawing journey. with you and don't forget to enter the Facebook group and show me what you have.
Can't wait to see bye guys, thanks for playing. Good for those of you who followed me. Thank you very much for staying with me. I hope they did. a fun moment and that you learned a lot and that you are excited about your instructions again um um for your five for your five exercises you know I encourage you to change make small changes in each one and that will help solidify the things that you are learning, growing and improving as an artist every day while hopefully having a great time. Here is my exciting news that I promised to have, first of all, I am very excited about this.
I have merch coming out and I've partnered with Teespring and YouTube, so I put some of my art graphics on some clothing, pillows, posters and whatnot, and you'll have a banner that will pop up. In the next few days, keep your fingers crossed that you can go ahead and choose or go shopping. I don't know if you want to, so I'm really excited about it. I will also do so in the coming weeks. I'm going to introduce you to my team of people I work with now. I know it seems like I do this just for fun and besides, I'm a mom and I do all this stuff, but I'm actually running a pretty serious business at an amazing art school and I'm really not the lone worker there and I think it's time I introduce you to some of my behind the scenes happenings including the beautiful women I work with so you can expect that in the next two weeks um oh I also added a new class at an amazing art school called my master class of mixed media and it's actually a package of classes, it's mixed media magic when There are 12 projects in there, like full real-time tutorials based on my mixed media magic book and it's also included with my mixed media course mixed for beginners of media mixing, so come in and that has a lot of art journaling and recycling, um, and amazing projects in there too, so when you put the two together you're talking about more than 20 more than 20 projects.
I think what it all comes down to is $6 per project, it's a really fun package and right now if you get into an amazing art school there should be one and let you know if there's not a pop up for a 30% off coupon in any class, I'm just saying if you want to put the two together. I just want you to keep in mind that, um and um, also for my mixed media magic students who are already enrolled in Eso, I have two new tutorials that are in that classroom for you. One is, I do how to make mixed media eyes and that will be a free class and very, very soon it will be available to everyone.
I already did it in that classroom and then I also have this little llama that you can see here. This guy is also available for people who have already signed up for my mixed media course and that's this guy right here, he's so cute and I'll be on some products too because oh he's so cute I can't resist so It's already in your classroom. If you are already a student of mixed media magic, you can go in there and start your tutorial again at any time and that. It will also be available for free soon, yes, so stay tuned, there are many exciting things to come in an amazing art school, so thanks for being here again.
I hope you liked the tutorial, learned a lot and don't forget to pick up your free shading. guide in the description box and see you monday for mixed media monday yay oh

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