How to Draw a Nose – Step by Step
How to Draw a Nose – Step by Step
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Portrait Drawing Fundamentals

The Features

How to Draw a Nose – Step by Step

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How to Draw a Nose – Step by Step

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Draw the Nose

Take a picture of your own nose or find some good photos online (get some with clear light and shadows). Follow my step-by-step lesson to complete the drawing. Rewatch the lesson to review all the anatomical details. Those take a few times to understand.

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Vue Thao
Here's mine.
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elkad
Some draw alongs with the videos and a couple extras. Any feedback is appreciate! :)
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Lisa L
A page of noses. Comments are welcome. :)
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Avşin
I feel like it is too early to start shading. I dont think you understand the 3d form and planes of the nose very well yet especially the connection of the wing to the bridge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRrXpZNoHmc this video is great for your studies. But other than that i can tell all the noses are different from each other. It ıs nice to see variety <3
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Sita Rabeling
Stan’s drawing is way better….
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Sita Rabeling
Some corrections with the help of Procreate. Next time I’ll check the shading this way, along with the drawing process. Maybe it helps to learn to see the different tones. 😅
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Stan Prokopenko
The simplest thing you can fix to make this look better is to make sure all the shadows are darker than the halftones. In your drawing the bottom of the nose in shadow looks lighter than the halftones on the side plane. Clarity of shadow vs light is very important.
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Sita Rabeling
I try to build the drawings up like Stan teaches, but they still don't look the way I want to - without unnecessary lines, smudging etc. Of course they don't look like Stan's - duh. I wish I knew how to make them look like I'm confident... Probably just practice practice - but I feel that there's something else (or specific) I should work on. -?-
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Artūras ČIvas
Nose practice after the lessons
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J Menriv
Nose step by step practice and Nose Anatomy & Structure
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brodymalonebonnacci
This is my assignment that I did. Any critique on it would be very appreciated!
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Anthony Leckie
Really nice attention to value. I would recommend trying to bring a bit more structure, rhythm, and flow to the values and gradation of value. I think that would help with brining a more cohesive sense of form. The sense of form is very nice but the movement of the tones bring a bit too much chaos to the highly organized anatomy of the nose.
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lekolara
hello, here are some of my attempts at drawing eyes and noses. critiques welcome!
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John Harper
Great try! I'm doing this exercise myself. I got frustrated in one of my gesture drawing sessions because the face wasn't automatic for me. So, I have determined to draw enough eye + nose + mouth to auto-magically draw the head really well.
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Matt Tsui
Looking good! I’ve noticed that there’s a pattern where the noses are a little longer (vertically) than they should be. You can check by measuring the vertical distance between the eyes and the bottom of the nose. It’s more noticeable in the last two faces, but the third one kind of has this issue as well.
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Octavivs
You seem to have a reasonable understanding of how to get things to feel 3d. You probably can make a pretty good box. But I'm wondering how much were you looking at the reference? I have a feeling you were looking at it a bit too much. How confident would you be drawing these again without/very little use of the references?
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willyjohn
Here is my work for the nose assignment with references. Please let me know what you think!
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Bob Davis
My attempt at following along with the lesson using the provided reference picture.
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Jesper Axelsson
Hi @Bob Davis, really nice drawing! Great job with the shading and making the ball of the nose and the nostrils read three dimensional and anatomically correct! - The bridge of the nose feels a bit flat. I think it's because everything above the ball of the nose has been shifted a bit to the right in the drawing, so that it know longer aligns with the structure that is in the photo. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
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Bob Davis
I was going over the lesson notes for how to draw a nose anatomy and structure. I liked one of the pictures he used and decided to draw the nose, but ended up getting carried away. Thoughts, critiques? Thanks,
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Luan Chan
Here is my assignment for this lesson.
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zoso123
good job man
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palyo
Hi! When i started this drawing, my intent was to just draw the eye and the nose but i got carried away. Also, i think i've messed up with the values but i'm not so sure about it. I would really appreciate any critique/advice.
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Esa K
I'm just a student myself too, so take my critique with a grain of salt, please. As far as I know, the upper eyelid always protrudes further than the lower eyelid. I think this is something you might want to keep an eye on when drawing eyes. See the attached image. Also, I assume, you're currently practicing constructive drawing. The drawing has quite a lot of wrong angles (forehead) and missshapes (nostril), these mistakes often happen to me when constructing with 3D forms. I think you could benefit from practicing some flat mapping on the side, i.e. flatten the image to 2D in your mind, detach yourself from the subject and look for lines, angles and flat shapes, to develop your eye to notice these mistakes. I think you're doing fine. Keep on practicing.
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lifeflame
really appreciate the reference photo here. It's interesting to me how one extracts the various steps from the reference. would love to see the eye reference pic too.
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Daniel Lykke
I think I am doing something wrong but I do not quite know what I’m doing wrong😅 do any of you have some feedback for me😊
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Camellito
Here is my drawing assignment, it was really fun to do.
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whatisjeff
Looking for some feedback on these noses!
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whatisjeff
thank you all!
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1yr
Hi whatisjeff, Looks like you're pretty close on most of the contour shapes. What's missing is a sense of the planes of the nose and the surround areas. This video by Chris Legaspi might be of some help there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBS-IuGdZ4 Cheers!
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Rebecca Shay
Looks like you drew the contour and started shading. Doesn't look like you used construction lines and the noses lack structure as a result. Try drawing with faint construction lines first and you may be surprised by the differences it makes!
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sogeki
here is my noses assignments, critiques welcome!!!
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Jesper Axelsson
Hi @sogeki, nice studies. I really like the clear planes in the ball of the nose an nostrils on the second image. Makes the drawing feel three dimensional and solid! - In the first drawing I would try to get more of that structure. I would study the planes presented in the lesson video How to Draw a Nose – Anatomy and Structure. Maybe do some line drawings with just the planes. First the primary planes then the secondary. When you're aware of the planes you can design the shading to reveal the form better. I think you would appreciate reading this critique https://www.proko.com/s/yAJE. The Portrait Drawing Course doesn't go in depth about how to draw 3D forms, but the Figure Drawing Fundamentals course does (lesson 3). I think you would appreciate taking it. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
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whatisjeff
Hello, in the video "How to Draw Eyes - Anatomy and Structure," at around 2:30 Proko mentions that he'll cover the placement of the nose on the face in a different video. Yet in this video and the last one I don't think he covered that at all. Is there another video where this is covered? It sounds like placement of the nose is needed for the placement of the eye
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Christopher Johnson
Pushed the contrasts more and I think i got a better understanding of structures underneath!
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brodymalonebonnacci
These are great I looked at the other ones you did and you’ve really made them pop!!!
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2yr
I think they look better now. Good job :)
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ace_of_spades
The structure of the noses and the values are well done!
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