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Step 1 – Look At the Nose as Simple Shapes

First off, if we look at a nose and think about what we see, we see a triangle, a circle at the bottom of the triangle and two ovals as the “wings” or nostrils which one will be on one side and the other on the other side of the circle (though depending on the angle of the nose (or face) we may only see one nostril).  In our example below the nose is facing us:

Figure 1: A geometric shaped nose using a red triangle, blue circle and two green ovals.

The figure below demonstrates a nose looking left or right of us (or profile view) using the same simple shapes as shown above.

Figure 2: A geometric shaped nose as a profile using a red triangle, blue circle and one green oval.

No matter which example you use, use very light lines to start out with.  So, if we are going to do this, let’s do it!