Q&A for How to Draw a Boy

To make a simple cartoon face, stick to very basic shapes. For example, draw circles or ovals for the head and eyes, and simple curves for the nose and mouth. To make the face look more masculine, add a masculine-looking hairstyle, a mustache, or a beard. For a more realistic face, go a little more angular than you would when drawing a woman. Men tend to have wider jaws, larger chins, and more prominent brows than women.

The best way to learn is to do lots of practice! Look at a lot of photo references, use your own face in the mirror, or ask a friend to pose for you. You may find it really helpful to check out a book on human anatomy for artists, which will teach you about things like proportions and the underlying bones and muscles of the face. You can also practice drawing along with tutorials.

Start by filling in the basic shapes—make a circle for the skull, then add the jaw to the lower part of the face. The jaw and chin are roughly triangular in shape. Then, fill in the details. The eye is usually about halfway down the skull, and the nose starts at about the same level, but ends a bit lower down. To make the face look masculine, keep the features relatively large and angular. Men tend to have heavier brows and bigger jaws than women. Look at lots of pictures of men in profile and practice drawing their features.

I am unable to give you a step by step, or explicit details, but I can give you a possible solution. You should try to check for some tutorials/pictures online to give you an idea on how to draw that, but do NOT completely copy what you find. You don't want to plagiarize anything, you should simply use what you find as almost a guide.

Well, it depends on your style of drawing. If you are doing a more cartoon type style, you should try to give them less eyelashes than you would usually (unless you are not giving them eyelashes), and maybe make the eyes a bit smaller. If you are doing a more realistic style of art, you could try looking up some pictures online for someone that might look similar, to almost act as a guide. Another option would be to check for a tutorial/help on YouTube, that might help you quite a lot.

Draw the other objects first, and then draw the outline of the boy. Rub out any objects that are inside the sketch of the boy, and proceed to draw the rest of him.

Definitely! You should always draw in the way that is most comfortable for you. This article gives you two ways to draw a boy, but there are countless other possibilities.

Try looking up pictures online and study the forms.

Yes. I recommend just a shadow, but shading anywhere else is fine.

Look on YouTube; if you search, "How to draw Disney's Prince Eric" about 15,000 results should come up.

Start by drawing an anime body with no detail, and then add his hair and a depressed facial expression.

You just draw him with his hand close to his pocket, and with half the note sticking out of the pocket so the viewer can see that something is in there.

Make the face a little rounder, eyes bigger, and nose smaller. And make sure the legs are shorter, and the head is bigger in proportion to the body.