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Step 3. Still working with the side of the 2B pencil, the artist begins to darken his tones selectively. He strengthens the shadows on the brow and cheek around the eyes, nose, and-mouth and on the neck. Now, us usual, the upper lip is in shadow and there's a hint of shadow beneath the lower lip. The tip of the nose casts a small shadow downward toward the corner of the mouth. The artist also darkens some of the tones on the hair and strengthens the tones of the collar. At this point, the...
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Step 4. With a pink rubber eraser, ihe artist removes most of the guidelines that appeared in Steps 1,2. and 3. Now he can see the lines of the profile and features more clearly and begin to block in the tone. Turning the thick pencil on its side, the artist begins to render the tones surrounding the eyes and nose, the cast shadow beneath the nose, the dark tone of the upper lip. and the pool of shadow beneath the lower lip. Broad, free strokes fill the underside of the jaw with shadow,...
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Step 2. The artist draws the outer contours of the face over the egg shape, capturing the curves of the checks, jaw, and chin. Swift, curving iines capture the sweep of the hair around the head and over the forehead. He draws the first few lines of the features over the guidelines of Step 1 the curves of the eyebrows and the upper lids the side and underside of the nose and the upper and lower lips. The one visible ear is aligned with the eye and nose. As you can see, the roughness of the paper...
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Step 1, The eye is actually a small sphere hat rests in the circular cup of the eye socket. It's a good idea to begin by drawing the complete sphere, as the artist does here. Around the sphere, he wraps the eyelids, like two curving bands, and places the iris on the front of the sphere. The eyebrow curves around the edge of the sphere. If you visualize the eye in this way, it looks rounder and more three-dimensional, Later on, you can erase the lines of the sphere, of course. Step 2. Working...
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Step 3. The artist develops the curves of the sitter's cheeks, jaw, and chin with the pencil. Then he defines the rounded shapes of the features more exactly. You see the curves of the eyebrows and eyelids the rounded shapes of the nostrils and the tip of the nose, and the full, sculptural lips. This is the last time well see the guidelines of Step 1, which are erased after the completion of Step 3.
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Step 1. Above the horizontal guideline that represents the dividing line between the lips, the artist draws the upper lip with just a few crisp lines, plus a single line for the curve leading upward to the base of the nose, In the same way, he draws the lower lip with a few angular lines and then carefully draws the shape of the chin with curving strokes. Notice the slanted line that touches the lips of the upper and lower lips at the right- This is an important guideline because it indicates...
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Step 1. Now, to show you how to put together everything you've learned so far, the artist draws a front view of a complete head. He starts out with the traditional egg shape and visualizes the neck as a slightly slanted cylinder. For symmetry, he draws a vertical guideline down the center of the egg. Then he adds horizontal guidelines for the brow, eyes. nose, and mouth. He divides the eye line into five different parts two of these parts will become eyes, of course, but the space between them...
Portrait Drawing
BY WENDON BLAKE DRAWINGS BY JOHN LAWN WATSON-GUPTILL PUBLICATIONS NEW YORK Published 1981 in the United Slates by Watson-Guptili Publications, a division of VNU Business Media, lncJf 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 www.watsonguptilLcorn Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The artist's painting library Originally published as pt. 3 of the author's The drawing book. Portrait drawing Technique, t. Lawn, John. II. Blake. Wendon, Drawing book. Title, IV. Series Blake, Wendon....
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Step 3. Tlic point of the hard charcoal pencil Lists longer than the point on a medium or soft pencil, and so the artist continues to work with it to draw the precise shapes of the eyes, nose, mouth, checks, jaw, and chin. Now you can see both lids, the concave corner of one eye socket, the exact shape of the nostril, the winglike shape of the upper lip, and the full, squarish lower lip. Having defined the features, the artist scribbles the point of the hard pencil lightly over the tonal areas...
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Step 1. Drawing the nose in profile, the artist carefully follows the horizontal guidelines that locate the eye and the base of the nose. He draws the brow and the eye at the same time to establish an accurate relationship between the features. The eye is just above the bridge of the nose and aligns with the concave curve beneath the brow. The back end of the nostril wing lines up roughly with the forward edge of the upper eyelid. The nose itself is drawn with just a few straight lines and a...
Female Mouth Drawing
Step 3. The artist begins to darken the upper lip. which is normally in shadow, as you've seen in the preceding demonstrations. He darkens the dividing line between the lips, accentuating the shadows at the corners of the mouth. Just above this dark line, he darkens the shadowy upper lip to emphasize its roundness. He places a light tone on the tower lip. which turns upward and receives the light, but he darkens the shadow plane at the right. Rough strokes darken the pool of shadow beneath the...