How do you draw cartoon noses from the front? Both cartoony or realistic?

Trick Question! To know how to draw a nose from the front, you have to understand how the nose works from all angles. Just because I wanted to, here’s a crash-course on the Form and Structure of the nose.

Here’s a handy look at the skeletal Anatomy of the nose. Knowing a bit about the anatomy of the nose will help you place it correctly (i.e. within context) on a figure.

On top of the skeletal structure, the personality of the nose is made of Cartridge! [¾ths view to show curvature]

Now you know a bit about what the nose is, and how it sits on the skull, but you’ll probably not find it very easy to draw a skull and cartilage every time you need to draw a nose. That’s why we have construction (aka figure drawing!)

The nose is usually represented as a somewhat of an odd-ly shaped pyramid, though sometimes the shape is more defined to include the flat width of the bridge. From the construction, you should be able to see that the downward-faces of the pyramid are sill visible from the front, and that the Septum on the lips ends in-front of the Nasion (not directly below).

Manipulating the character of the skeletal structure or cartilage will give you a basis for a large variety of nasular-personality. You can exaggerate widths and distances of all sorts, and this could help bring personality into other parts of the face. For instance, a narrow or long septum could influence the lips, and the wings of the nose could influence fat deposits on the cheeks, and the width/placement of the nasium could influence the personality of the eyes.

How you choose to express the nose you’ve chosen is entirely up to you, though usually a frontal-nose on a cartoon character will outline either the contour of the nose from the side, or the bottom. When you’ve decided the character of your nose, you can represent it with one or two carefully considered contour lines. Remember, though, the best contour to use for a nose on the side might not necessarily be the best contour to use for the front!

You can even determine the cast-shadow of the nose and draw that, instead! 

The more you look at noses and try to recognize how the structures and forms influence each-other, the more confident you’ll be on finding a great way to represent it in a drawing!

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