How to draw a glasses on a face - a free glasses on a face drawing guide
Draw glasses on a face using simple shapes and proportions. Practice aligning frames, choosing lens shape, and adding shading for depth.
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Step-by-step guide to draw glasses on a face
How to Draw Glasses on a Face Front View Easy Step by Step Drawing Tutorial for Beginners
Step 1
Place your paper and pencil in front of you so you are ready to draw.
Step 2
Lightly sketch an oval for the head in the middle of the paper.
Step 3
Draw a straight vertical center line down the middle of the oval.
Step 4
Draw a horizontal eye line across the middle of the oval to mark where the eyes sit.
Step 5
Make two small marks on the eye line where the centers of the eyes will be about one eye-width apart.
Step 6
Lightly sketch small ear shapes where the eye line meets the sides of the head.
Step 7
Choose a lens shape (round oval or rectangle) and lightly draw matching lenses around the eye marks.
Step 8
Draw a small bridge connecting the two lenses right between them.
Step 9
Thicken the frames by drawing a slightly larger outline around each lens to make the glasses look solid.
Step 10
Add temple arms by drawing lines from the outer edges of the frames that sweep back toward the ears.
Step 11
Add light shading inside each lens with your pencil using gentle strokes to show depth.
Step 12
Blend the shading with a cotton swab to make the shadows smooth.
Step 13
Lift tiny highlights on the lenses by gently rubbing a small spot with your eraser.
Step 14
Trace over the final frame lines and erase any extra construction marks.
Step 15
Color the frames and lenses with your coloring materials and then share your finished glasses-on-a-face creation on DIY.org.
Final steps
You're almost there! Complete all the steps, bring your creation to life, post it, and conquer the challenge!
Help!?
I don't have cotton swabs or a blending stump — what can I use to blend the pencil shading in step 12?
Use a clean tissue, a folded scrap of paper, your fingertip, or a small piece of paper towel to gently blend the light shading described in step 12 instead of a cotton swab.
My lenses look uneven or the glasses sit crooked — how do I fix that?
Return to the straight vertical center line and horizontal eye line from the early steps, erase and realign the lens outlines so the eye-center marks are one eye-width apart, and remake the frames using those center lines as guides.
How can I adapt this activity for younger or older kids?
For younger kids, simplify to big round lenses and skip blending and tiny highlights, while older kids can add precise frame outlines, detailed shading with a blending stump, and lifted highlights as described in steps 11–13 for more realism.
How can we personalize or extend the drawing after tracing and coloring?
After tracing the final frame lines and coloring the frames and lenses in the last step, personalize by adding patterned frames, reflective scene details inside the lenses, stickers or metallic pens, or draw multiple face angles to create a gallery to share on DIY.org.
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Facts about portrait drawing and facial proportions
📏 A helpful rule for faces: the distance between the eyes is roughly one eye-width, great for sizing and centering frames.
🌓 Adding a tiny shadow under the frames and darker edges on lenses makes glasses look three-dimensional and 'sit' on the face.
🎨 Cartoonists often give characters glasses to show personality—smart, shy, quirky, or stylish—without changing the face.
👓 Eyeglasses are easiest to sketch using simple shapes—circles, ovals, rectangles, or rounded squares are common base shapes.
🎯 For natural placement, line up the centers of the lenses with the pupils and rest the bridge on the nose’s centerline.
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