Fantasy Art Drawing: How To Draw A Demon Face

Drawing demonic faces is all about simple expressions, facial expressions that convey the current mood that you want to portray on your characters demon face.

Usually the face of evil is associated with demons, so that is the one I want to stick with for this little drawing tutorial, to be honest it is just an excuse to draw yet another demon and also this Hubpage accompanies the first one with drawing demons

When drawing any types of face, they usually have to show some sort of emotion that will show your characters frame of mind, but this really grounds your drawings in reality because every thing has to portray an emotional vision.

Below are the simple moods that you could add to your demonic faces to set them apart from the usual evil type of character that they often are.

• Happy
• Sad
• Mischevious
• Evil
• Angry

Here we have the basic outline of our demons face, and we want to mark out exactly the markings where we will place the eyes and some of the other features later on.

So leaving space for the demonic features and just drawing the shape of the head is what this step is all about.

Whilst at this step, think a bit about what features the demon will have, maybe try and sketch these out on paper before the next step and try to come up with some great demonic facial elements like prominent cheek bones and long chin, aswell as twisted horns, spikes and spiky teeth.

I like to plan a sketch out before I commit properly to paper and this is a good exercise for drawing.

 The features like the eyes and the teeth, horns and other charactistics become noticeable now and we take these fruther in the next step, you however may want to draw yours a different way, maybe add hair or different horns or teeth structures, it's up to you how you draw your own demonic face, this tutorial just serves as an inspiration, something that you can draw from and learn.

 Something about inking a drawing and starting to shade the thing just makes it seem complete or like it's going somewhere. I use any fine liners that don't bleed or clog for best results and with minimal cross hatching on this demons face.

You may however want to do more or less detail depending on your art style, but I'm happy with the way this turned out here, all I need to do is finish off the shading.

Adding the full shading to the demon, you see it looks more alive and more like a demon. My hope is I've at least provided a little bit of inspiration here with this small drawing tutorial as there are more to follow as drawing from your imagination is the key to creating new and original art.

Of course you don't have to shade your drawing like I have, in fact I never shade the original drawing as I like to make copies on file of the drawing and do several photocopies, to try other colour schemes for the demon, I use either felt tips or coloured pencil crayons or a combination of both to simply mark out the colour of the demons face or any other type of creature that I draw.

I hope this little demonic drawing guide helped you in some way.

I'll be uploading all of my new demon designs at this blog  Dark Demonic Drawings if you are interested, in fact I am going to start a project that I have had on my mind for awhile now and that is a Demon A Day for one full year, I reckon I could do it!

Then check out my other fantasy art blog resource here for more on Drawing Fantasy Art

On this blog there are drawing videos to be inspired by, article tutorials to be inspired by and any other arts resources that I am trying to blog about, so check it out!