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When you're unfamiliar with drawing, sketching a simple doodle can seem impossible. But with the helpful tutorials of Doodle Me This, you'll be putting pen to paper in no time. Created by a woman named Jenny, her charming drawings feature an array of subjects that are simplified into three or four easy-to-follow steps. By the end of her doodle tutorials, you'll understand how to sketch cartoonish versions of guitars, foxes, rocketships, cacti, and much more.

Although it might seem like a straightforward task to convert a subject into just a few lines and colors, doing so is harder than you think. Jenny must determine the most important details of the object or animal she's going to draw. They have to reflect the essence of her subject so that when you glance at it for a second, you'll immediately understand what you're looking at. In making these decisions, her resulting drawing steps appear effortlessly crafted and accessible for even the most casual artist. It's no wonder that so many people flock to her Doodle Me This Instagram account.

Scroll down for a selection of doodle tutorials that will get you drawing. (They would be great in a bullet journal!)

Need help with your drawing skills? Doodle Me This creates easy-to-sketch doodle tutorials featuring an array of subjects.

Jenny has a newly established YouTube channel for Doodle Me This where you can watch her draw.
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Step-by-Step Doodle Tutorials Make Complex Subjects Easy to Draw

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When you're unfamiliar with drawing, sketching a simple doodle can seem impossible. But with the helpful tutorials of Doodle Me This, you'll be putting pen to paper in no time. Created by a woman named Jenny, her charming drawings feature an array of subjects that are simplified into three or four easy-to-follow steps.

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Doodling is not only a great way to pass the time during a boring class, but it can help you improve your artistic skills and find your passion. As long as you relax and let your hand do the thinking, you'll be on your way to having...

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Everyone loves animals. Take a walk on the wild side and learn to draw your favorites with these easy, step-by-step tutorials. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! We've got drawing instructions for them, one and all - as well as mice, rabbits, dragons, birds, and more.

What is your favorite animal? Whether you prefer cats or dogs, wolves or tigers, horses or teddy bears, you can learn to draw them here. Each tutorial includes detailed illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and a how-to video.

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Feel free to combine several of our animal tutorials into interesting, easy sketches. For example, why not draw a diorama of the frigid Arctic using the tutorials for a polar bear, penguin, and whale? Stock your jungle with lions, tigers, snakes, gorillas, and tropical birds. Or, you could sketch a medieval fantasy scene inhabited by dragons, fairies, and fairy tale princesses.

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There's an old adage in art that the human face is the most interesting landscape of them all. If you want to explore your creative side and improve your drawing skills, drawing a face is great way to go! In this article, we'll break down the mechanics when it comes to drawing faces. We've even provided reference images so that you can practice along as you learn.

Draw an oval. Then, add vertical and horizontal guidelines through the center to create guidelines for the features.

Make eyes realistic by making them almond-shaped. Place one eye's width between each eye to keep them symmetrical.

Focus on the shape of the base of the nose and shade under each eye to give definition to the nose's bridge (instead of drawing a line in the middle).

Place the mouth halfway between the nose and chin. Add 3 lines-1 for the mouth, 1 for the upper lip, and 1 for the lower lip.

Draw clothes if you want a fuller portrait. Throw on a blouse, shirt, or jacket if you want to add a body. This is totally optional, so if you're only interested in drawing the face, go ahead and skip this.

1. Sketch out the hair and neck. You can even throw a little ribbon or headband in the hairstyle if you want the girl to appear really young. Start where the hair parts and add flowing lines going away from that location.

2. Use a small-tipped drawing tool to add the finer details of the face. Grab a razor-sharp pencil, thin pen, or marker and develop all of the features you've added.

Add shading to the drawing for a more realistic look. You can keep the drawing unshaded for a more cartoonish look, but shading and adding depth is a great way to give your drawing a little extra pop.

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Renée Plevy is an Internationally Acclaimed Portrait Artist from New York/Palm Beach who has painted The Grand Dames of Palm Beach and various celebrities and community leaders. With over 50 years of experience, Renée specializes in painting realistically in oil and capturing the soul of the person. She has studied under internationally renowned portrait artists John Howard Sanden, David Leffel, Robert Beverly Hale, Clyde Smith, and Leonid Gervits. Renée is featured in over 68 shows and galleries including a one-woman museum show at the Paterson Museum. She has garnered numerous awards including "Artist of the Year" from The Bloomfield Art League and First Prize from the Boca Raton Museum Artist's Guild. Renée has even painted a portrait of celebrity, Vanilla Ice. She also teaches at the Boca Raton Museum Art School - formerly at SVA in Manhattan.

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When a person starts to do a portrait or a drawing of a face, they tend to put the person in a very unrealistic position. Instead of putting the person at eye level, looking directly at you, try a variation of that pose. Draw the person as if they have bent their head down, or moved it to the right or the left, or tilted it.

How can I get better at drawing faces?

Renée Plevy is an Internationally Acclaimed Portrait Artist from New York/Palm Beach who has painted The Grand Dames of Palm Beach and various celebrities and community leaders. With over 50 years of experience, Renée specializes in painting realistically in oil and capturing the soul of the person. She has studied under internationally renowned portrait artists John Howard Sanden, David Leffel, Robert Beverly Hale, Clyde Smith, and Leonid Gervits. Renée is featured in over 68 shows and galleries including a one-woman museum show at the Paterson Museum. She has garnered numerous awards including "Artist of the Year" from The Bloomfield Art League and First Prize from the Boca Raton Museum Artist's Guild. Renée has even painted a portrait of celebrity, Vanilla Ice. She also teaches at the Boca Raton Museum Art School - formerly at SVA in Manhattan.

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You need to do a lot of reading, you need to do sketching, but primarily, you need to find a good teacher in your area who will help you to see what you're missing. We have a tendency not to actually see what's in front of us, and that's tough when you have to develop an artist's eye.

How can you get better at drawing faces?

Claire Wentzel is an award-winning Artist and Strategic Creative Consultant. Her business, Red Rose Studios, is based in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she also serves on the Clark County Public Art Committee. With over 20 years of experience, she specializes in mixed media participatory art, brand messaging, and building organizational culture. She earned her BA in Fine Art with Distinction from the University of Colorado-Boulder and completed a painting residency at the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture. Her chalk mural work has been featured in EdHat and I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival advertising.

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Look at them. My favorite technique that I learned for drawing anything, but especially as a good technique to draw portraits, is blind contour drawing. This is an exercise where you look at your subject and you cannot look at your paper or lift up your pencil while you draw. You are training your eye to talk to your hand. This is a fundamental skill that really helps with drawing portraiture in particular.

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Use a reference photo to draw a person in a realistic position if you don't want to draw a face that's looking straight at the viewer.

Use graded pencils if you want to draw the pencils in grayscale. The pencils you can use for a realistic grayscale youth female face are B, 3B, H, HB.

You don't have to draw exactly the same face as the one shown. Try to draw your own as this guide is just a basis on how to draw a face.

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This article was co-authored by Renée Plevy and by wikiHow staff writer, Eric McClure. Renée Plevy is an Internationally Acclaimed Portrait Artist from New York/Palm Beach who has painted The Grand Dames of Palm Beach and various celebrities and community leaders. With over 50 years of experience, Renée specializes in painting realistically in oil and capturing the soul of the person. She has studied under internationally renowned portrait artists John Howard Sanden, David Leffel, Robert Beverly Hale, Clyde Smith, and Leonid Gervits. Renée is featured in over 68 shows and galleries including a one-woman museum show at the Paterson Museum. She has garnered numerous awards including "Artist of the Year" from The Bloomfield Art League and First Prize from the Boca Raton Museum Artist's Guild. Renée has even painted a portrait of celebrity, Vanilla Ice. She also teaches at the Boca Raton Museum Art School - formerly at SVA in Manhattan. This article has been viewed 3,234,692 times.

When you're drawing a face, begin by sketching in a basic oval shape. Most faces are rounded at the top and slightly narrower at the bottom, like an upside-down egg. Next, draw a line down the center of the face vertically, and another one horizontally halfway between the top and bottom. These lines will help you figure out how to position the features on the face. Draw another horizontal line halfway between the middle line and the bottom of the face, and sketch in the base of the nose so that it rests on that line. Use the vertical guideline to help you center the nose. Divide the lower part of the face in half again with another horizontal line, and draw the mouth so the bottom lip rests on top of the new guideline. Move back up to the first horizontal line and sketch in two circles on the line, positioning them on either side of the central vertical line. These shapes will form the eye sockets. Draw in the eyebrows at the tops of the circles, and use the bottoms to indicate where the tops of the cheekbones are. Sketch the eyes in the middle of each circle, using an almond shape. As a rule of thumb, try to leave about one eye's width in the middle, between the eyes. Draw in the eyelids and add an iris and pupil to the center of each eye. Next, add the ears. The top of each ear should line up with the outer edges of the eyebrows, while the earlobe should line up with the bottom of the nose. Finish by filling in the hair, starting from the part and working your way out to the ends. You can also add the neck and shoulders if you like. When you're done, erase the guidelines and add in details, like the eyelashes, shading under the eyes and nose, and natural-looking lines around the eyes and mouth. To vary the look of the face, practice changing the shapes and sizes of individual features. For example, keep in mind that adult male faces tend to have wider jaws and heavier brows than the faces of women and children. To learn how to add details to your drawing, keep reading!

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