Do you want to learn a new drawing skill? Do you want to move to next level which is drawing realistic faces? Do you want to learn how to draw faces? Here's a little introduction about realistic drawing. In this article I will try to answer your questions like: what are the things that I need to know about realistic drawing? What are the features that I need to on drawing realistic faces? What makes realistic drawing complicated? I will try to answer some of them for you. I will also try to encourage you to draw, it may be hard, but drawing realistic is a skill that you will like and enjoy.  

What is the difference between cartoonish and realistic drawing?

Cartoonish drawings are more like childish drawing or sometimes they are exaggerated and deformed. Cartoonish drawings are usually colored with bright and happy because this kind of drawing or pictures is usually for children or teenagers. Many people are also interested to draw cartoonish drawings because it is fun and easy. Obviously, drawing cartoonish characters are easier than drawing realistic images or pictures. Drawing cartoonish characters is just an introduction to drawing or sketching, so if you think you are ready to proceed to the next level which is realistic drawing then you should master this level first.

Realistic drawing is quite complicated, especially for complete beginners because drawing realistic figures and pictures focuses more on making your drawing look realistic or real like you are looking to a photo of a real person or people. The face details are more complicated than drawing cartoonish characters which make this course hard. You will also need to study how to shade because good shading also contributes on making your drawing look more realistic. In drawing realistic characters, you have a lot of things to study like human anatomy and other body details.

What are the things that we need to check or focus for realistic drawing:

• Correct proportion – As mentioned above, you need to study the human anatomy if you want to learn how to draw realistic characters because this will give you more ideas where to put the body details and fold such as eyes, nose, mouth, shoulder and waist. Studying human anatomy will also help you know the size of the body like the waist, arms or folded arms. Human anatomy will help you create perfect or good realistic drawing.
• Depth – Cartoonish drawing often looks plain and flat. If you will draw realistic drawing you need to make it real and look like it is in 3D. That's why you need to learn how to apply shades correctly.
• Action lines – Another important factor that will make your drawing look more realistic or real are by putting action lines, lines that will show or define your character's movement.

Realistic drawing is fun, but learning it is time consuming. You will need patience and practice if you want to master this skill. Most famous artists that we now took them years of practice in this field, you can also do it too..