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.

S R

The shading is super chunky, but I feel like I'm getting to understand the underlying forms

somepleb48

Trying to get a feel specifically for when the nose bridge wedges into the cartilage + the side planes of the bridge. I would also appreciate any help with visualizing where the wings of the nose enters the skull.

Alex S

11d

Shading is something that I'm still working on, otherwise I think I've got the structure/shape of the nose figured out (mostly).......

mogumogu

1mo

mogumogu

1mo

h3art

1mo

Struggled a bit with the darker skin tones but getting better at painting them.

aeyt

2mo

Man, drawing noses is hard! Will have to revisit this exercise at some point but for now I’m gonna move on to the mouth. Feedback appreciated!

Martha Muniz

2mo

Good work! Just one thing I'd like to note is to make sure the perspective aligns from the top of the bridge to the placement of the nostrils. Something I noticed as a tendency (e.g. #6, 7, 11, 12) is that the bottom of the nose seems to be facing one way while the top of the bridge is shifted at a different angle. It would help to create a quick guideline across for these two points and compare that they are parallel in the same direction.

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Samuel Sanjaya

3mo

my nose assignment. I think this is the first time I got exposed to a form that have minor form and angling planes instead of a simple primitives like this. Somewhat mind boogling at first. But it opened a lot of new door for me. I hope i can get some feedbacks on this

Noe Luis

3mo

Day 3 in studying facial features nose At the 3 picture I attempted to combine the eyes and nose but I did not like it especially trying to simplify the shapes and getting the proportions right

Vue Thao

6mo

Here's mine.

elkad

7mo

Some draw alongs with the videos and a couple extras. Any feedback is appreciate! :)

Lisa L

7mo

A page of noses. Comments are welcome. :)

Avşin

7mo

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

Sita Rabeling

9mo

Stan’s drawing is way better….

Sita Rabeling

9mo

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. 😅

Stan Prokopenko

9mo

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

9mo

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

9mo

Nose practice after the lessons

J Menriv

11mo

Nose step by step practice and Nose Anatomy & Structure

BombDraws

1yr

This is my assignment that I did. Any critique on it would be very appreciated!

Anthony Leckie

1yr

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

1yr

hello, here are some of my attempts at drawing eyes and noses. critiques welcome!

John Harper

1yr

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.

Matt Tsui

1yr

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

1yr

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

1yr

Here is my work for the nose assignment with references. Please let me know what you think!

Bob Davis

1yr

My attempt at following along with the lesson using the provided reference picture.

Jesper Axelsson

1yr

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

1yr

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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