How to Draw a Nose From the Side
In this lesson you will learn how to draw a nose from the side. I am sure you will like this tutorial because it is useful and simple.


Now another interesting and useful lesson awaits you, in which you will learn how to draw a nose from the side. In this lesson, you will learn important skills that you will use in the future when drawing portraits of real people.
In this tutorial, you will need the ability to make smooth, curved lines. Here is a small nose, the shape of which is very common. Such a nose can be in a teenager or a young girl. With the help of this instruction, you will quickly and easily draw a human nose.
Remember the sequence in which you need to draw the nose from the side, but when drawing a portrait of a real person, be sure to pay attention to the individual features of the nose and try to depict it correctly in your drawing.
Materials
- Pencil
- Paper
- Eraser
- Coloring supplies
Time needed: 15 minutes
How to Draw a Nose From the Side
- Draw the top of the nose.
Depict a smooth line diagonally.
- Depict the tip of the nose.
Continue the line and add the rounded tip of the nose.
- Add the bottom of the nose.
Draw a smooth line down from the tip of the nose.
- Sketch out the nasal opening.
Depict a smooth rounded line at the bottom of the nose.
- Draw the nostril.
On the side, draw a rounded line of approximately the same shape as in the example.
- Correct inaccuracies.
At this stage, trace the outline of the nose.
- Color the nose from the side.
Use any color for the drawing.
As usual, at the end of the tutorial, I have prepared a short PDF version of the walkthrough for you. Save this file so that you can repeat the drawing lesson at any time, even if there is no Internet access.
How to Draw a Nose from the Side: Experimenting with Shape
As I’ve said before in other tutorials, we are all very different, and the shapes of our noses are different too. As you can see, the nose in this example is slightly different from the nose you may have seen in the first tutorial on this page.
In addition, in this example I drew the nose on the other side so that you can practice drawing this part of the human face from both sides.

Nose Drawing Tutorial: More Practice
As I wrote above, noses come in many different shapes. Here we will try to draw this part of the face, which has a different shape from the previous two.
