Q&A for How to Draw a Man

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.

The human figure is quite challenging to draw. One method is to do warm-up poses, where each pose lasts 30 seconds or maybe a minute. This forces you to get down the essential information as quickly as possible and you won't have time to get bogged down in the details. I think it's just a matter of doing it repetitively and giving yourself the freedom to have it look like whatever it's going to look like. Whatever you see first, just follow that line and then be done and move to the next pose.

Make the shoulders less broad and change his facial features so that he has more feminine characteristics.

Usually men are more broadly built, more muscular. Women are usually skinnier.

Yes, you can draw a man dabbing.

Look at your own hand for the positioning. Draw the joints of the fingers. Make the fingers as proportionally long as real hands. Do not make the fingers too thick or curving. Add small lines to the middle of the fingers.

The best way to do this would be to take a picture of someone in the position you want (or use Google Image Search to find one that suits you) and use it as a reference.

You should lower the eyebrows and upturn the eyes. If you want you could look up references or expression drawings.

You could use a photo reference and see the positioning. Use shading with the side of your pencil to make it look bushier.