The many ways to draw a face 👦🏿👧🏽🧒🏻
Studying kids books to learn about illustrating faces
Illustrating Faces for Children’s Books
If you’re here, you’ve likely illustrated many, many faces. Adult faces, kid faces, animal faces, and even faces on objects! In this post, we’ll mostly be looking at human faces, but I have included a couple bonus animals, because animal features are really fun to draw.
No matter your own style, there is a lot to learn by studying the work of various illustrators. I’ve more or less organized the faces below from simplified to more naturalistic, but there are so many books and so many faces that it was really hard to choose just a few for this post. There are likely infinite ways to draw a face!
I was curious to explore this wide variety of faces that exist in the children’s market, so let’s take a look at some some illustrations…