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Portrait drawing: a simple approach (Part 2)
by Vincenzo
Portrait drawing. Let's have a look at our sketch so far.
Is everything in scale properly? Move on only if you are absolutely happy with what you have achieved so far! Ok let's move on with portrait drawing.
Now is the time to add those very lines I ask you to visualize upon the oval of the face. It's imperative you position these lines as good as you can now...
Take your time. Do it with calm and patience... I will be here waiting :)
Done? Are you happy with those lines and their positioning? Great, these three lines are really all that you need to efficiently build your drawing upon.
Trace roughly the mouth, the eyes and the wideness of the nose. Now look back at your subject. You should already see an hint of resemblance if you did it right so far. Ok next step!
As you can see I have added very very roughly the hairs, eyebrows and shaped the nose a little bit. I drew a ear also. All these things to start balancing out the drawing. This means that it will make it easier from now on to look at the subject and work to achieve resemblance if the main face features are in place.
I know it doesn't look like her yet but bare with me. You have got the foundations right and that's the main thing. You have got distance from mouth to chin tip, distance between the eyes and so forth, al those things that will make your portrait drawing resemble the subject you re drawing.
From now on what you need to do, really is look at the subject constantly to get the shape of the single facial features and start working adding detail but never focusing too much on a single feature.
Add a few lines around the eyes then move to the shape of the face, then to the nose and the mouth then back to the eyes. Do not spend more than few seconds on each part.
Remember you want to get the resemblance right. Too much detail now and you are on a "no through road".
See, all the drawing is proceeding as a whole. There are not parts which are developed more than others. And this is good. The drawing is still very fluid and you can make changes if you want. Like I am going to do.
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