Let’s try an experiment: Draw a face. Nothing fancy, just an oval with eyes, nose, mouth, some hair. What you’ve produced probably looks like a cartoon Neandertal. Just about everyone tends to ...

Art students work for years to learn to create good portraits that capture the likeness of a subject. Even among trained artists, it takes a special talent to draw faces accurately. This problem ...

He’s only got 8 million faces left to draw. NEW YORK - Artist Jason Polan won't be running out of live models any time soon - in trying to draw every person in New York, he's got at least eight ...

When you can accurately draw someone’s face, they feel special because they feel seen—and you learn how to really see them. Next, watch Jason explain how he draws cartoons.

In that case, it utilized algorithms that identified the boundaries between areas of high and low contrast on each subject’s face. Now, however, scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, have ...

People find it extremly difficult to draw faces from memory. A new study asked whether using simplified line drawings of faces can improve the accuracy of drawing from memory.