Post #681088 by Gene S Morgan on Thu, Jun 6, 2013 9:31 PM

For many years I worked on learning to draw human faces. I had to unlearn stuff to create tikis. Noses are not supposed to look human, so I have to study how other folks do it.

Deep sculpting in wood produces very stylized nose shapes. But there are so many possibilities.

This detail of a Dawn Frasier painting is a great example of stylized, primitive, and at the same time a kinda fancy nose design. My goal is to combine ideas from all these examples to try to develop my own look.

With one continuous line I created the brow line and the basic nose. Remember with mirror on you only have to draw one side and the app fills in the other. I added some thickness at the brow. It is a nice primitive look but I was not to happy with it.

By covering over parts of the nose line that I did not like with the background color I improved and changed the look of the nose a bit. The face so far.

I'm partial to round eyes. Years ago I made primitive mask out of clay. I usually made round eye holes in them. It is a hard habit to break.

Folks seem to have fun coming up with unusual eye designs. For a creative person the imagination rules.

Folks may wonder about how I get all these reference images next to my image. It is just another great feature of the Sketchclub app. I like this set of eyes. It is close to a style I like, but I want it simpler.

This is not much different than how I would do it in clay. They are simple, but have much potential to shape up later on.

A few more simple shapes and we have our basic tiki design.