[quote]And also how do I stop my hands from shaking when I draw [/quote] My guess: start slow, draw, and draw, and draw, speed up, repeat

👏Reference👏images. Get a couple pictures of mouths and mentally note different features and what shape they consist of.

I draw horses.

For hair, draw the outline first, then just draw a few lines going in the direction the hair goes.

Don’t do the part there the upper lip and lower lip touch until the end. Draw it in short curves until you get the whole thing, don’t make a single line unless you are using your hand as a makeshift compass.

Just look at a picture of a mouth and draw what you see. I know it sounds flippant, but it's legitimately what I do when I draw something.

If you want to learn how to get good at drawing faces, learn anatomy, specifically how to draw a skull. Once you learn how to draw a skull, it's not hard to throw muscle, tendons, fat, and skin over it. It will give you an understanding of what is actually happening on someone's face structurally, which will also let you render different mouth movements effectively. Really, learning skeletons and muscle groups are about the best way to improve how well you can draw people. I've also heard that's it's extremely helpful to model anatomy as well. For drawing in general, you can basically break up drawing into understanding form and understanding how to render that form. For understanding form, you need to do studies of objects until you understand how stuff is actually structured rather than just drawing a short hand for it. Learning how to render takes lots of repetition and learning how to slap marks, lines, and shading down without judging too quickly or harshly so that you can gradually improve. Both form and rendering are far too complicated for me to cover here. There are entire libraries worth of books that have been written about every subject imaginable on both of those subjects. I could probably give more advice (or at least point you to advice) if you wanted coverage on a more specific topic, but it would probably be more confusing that it's worth if I just threw it in here. Obviously, there are aesthetic elements that come into play such as composition, weight, balance, ect, but worry about that later. It will come naturally as you learn and develop preferences.

. >@) \X\ (======) (=========)> I can’t do mouths but I make a mean snake.

For hands, take a pencil in your dominant hand and place paper securely so it won’t move around. Place your other hand next to the paper, in a comfortable position and don’t move it. Pick one line of your hand, and draw just that line. Try to get the line the same size, curve, etc. like you’re just copying a line that you see. Next pick two or three lines that intersect and try the same thing. Don’t worry about shading or anything, just copy the lines. Keep expanding this until you’ve gotten the entire hand drawn. Don’t worry about mistakes, don’t throw it away, finish it and look at the drawing. Pay attention to any imperfections in the drawing such as angles of the lines, incorrect curvature, size ratio of fingers, etc. Now keeping everything in mind that you learned from your first attempt, go again. Keep repeating this practice and eventually you’ll get a decent grasp of how to line draw a decent basic hand.

For hair, unless you’re being super realistic you don’t need to draw every strand. I like to break up the hair into “chunks”, that show it’s general shape. I draw mouths very cartoony, so if you’re wanting advice for detailed mouths, you’ll have to look elsewhere, but honestly, just keep it simple, imo. If it’s open you don’t need to draw every tooth, ot the tongue, and only add lips if they’re wearing lipstick. For the body; start basic. First make what is essentially a stick figure, then add the basic shape, then clothes, then detail. Don’t start by making the whole character at once. As for hands.. Well, I’m pretty bad at those, honestly. Use your own hand as a model, and it should be a little easier. Also, full disclaimer here, I’m not great at drawing, just okay.

Thankfully I don’t have to do detailed drawings of people.

Focus on lips. Go from there.

I’d recommend YouTube. It comes with a handy search feature