Anyone Can Draw : Portrait Drawing Through Shapes

1. Introduction: The object of art is to give life a shape. The great artists, because on one side it took me four years to paint like Apha, but it took me a lifetime to paint like a child. So this class is all about understanding the child, which is there inside you, and how to draw using the shapes and creating them into a beautiful artwork. So I warmly welcome you all in this new class in which we are going to use the shapes and turning out into them a beautiful artwork. So welcome to anyone can draw, drawing through shapes. So, let me tell you something about myself. I am Anki Smathia. I'm an artist based in India and following my art passion for almost last 15 years to spread the awareness of art, I am having a Youtube channel with the name of artists and Kias Matia and having a subscriber family of 400 K. This is my eighth class on Skillshare. I have already uploaded so many classes on Skillshare about drawing shading, painting software cells. I am basically working on dry media and this class is also on dry media techniques. Here, this is the most unique class, as the theme of this class is very different from the other, because here we are going to draw using the shapes and turning the shapes into the masterpiece. Whether you are a complete beginner or an amateur artist who really want to refine their skills, this class is designed to empower you with a versatile and fundamental approach of trying. Art is often perceived as complex and intimidating, but here is a secret at its core. Art is about simplifying the world around us by breaking down their complex structure into basic shapes like circle, cone, triangle, square, and many more. Just by using these objects, you can draw anything confidently. And precision shapes are the artists essential tool, the foundation upon which artwork can be built. In this class, I'm going to guide you through easy steps that will revelize the way you approach drawing. Understand basic shapes, then break down complex structure into the easy one. Follow step by step drawing process at depth and detail while using shading and then evaluate, adjust, and finish the artwork. So these are the steps in which we are going to break down the complex drawing into the easy one throughout. In this score, you will not only gain the deeper understanding of fundamental drawing principles, but also build the confidence to tackle with the complex structures and the wide range of subject. By the end of this class, I'm sure that you are going to understand the shapes and how the objects have been created by the universe. Whether you are a dream of becoming a professional artist or simply want to enhance your artistic abilities, this class will provide you with the knowledge and technique that you need to succeed. So grab your sketchbooks and let's dive into the wonderful work of art through shapes. Let's embark on this creative journey together and discover the artist within you. I will see you in the class project. 2. Class Project and Material: First of all, thank you so much for showing your interest in this class and took a step ahead to learn the super amazing techniques. Our project for this class is to create a portrait using various shapes. You can take a reference what I am using in this class, or you can take your own. The reference image is there in the project gallery section. All you need to understand is to first observe the shape. Here you can observe the shape of the face and what are the basic shapes that has been. So we can break down this phenomena into a simple manner. We have circle, we have a triangle. And then we have a nose, which is having a shape of a triangle. We have eyes which is having a shape of an almond and hexagon. This is how we, breaking down the shapes, the complex shape into the simple one. Here are the tools that you need for this class. Now let us talk about the materials that we are going to use in this complete class and the material that you require for completing the project. The pencils, first of all, the pencils, which is the most essential tool to draw anything for sure, here are the three pencils, what we need to complete the project. First one is HB pencil, second one is four B, and the third one is six B pencil. These are the three pencils which are required. Then next comes the eraser. For eraser, we are going to use this needed eraser which is very basic needed eraser. You can find it anywhere in your local market. It is named as needed eraser or needing eraser. It can change its shapes and it is flexible and it can change its shapes and it actually absorb the dust part. Whatever the erasing material that comes out after erasing anything, it absorb everything. Then another tool that we may use that is pencil eraser. This is a simple pencil eraser. It is used for refined erasing thing that we are going to use. The last is the sharpener. This is very basic sharpener. Anyone who wants to have this sharpener can have no such problem with that. But if you want to have a good sharpener, you can use this sharpener as well. This is mechanical sharpener, and there is a spindle over there. And then you can put pencil in front of that. I'm just going to elaborate it in a easier manner. Let me show it to you for your easy understanding. Let me show it to how it can actually work. This is something which came out and by just pressing the black block over on it, then you can see it here. Very easy to understand. I put inside the pencil and then I'm just rotating the spindle. Then I just pick my pencil out so you can see here, it has been sharpened up now. Few more tools you can have just for shading purpose. If you want to do a realistic portrait with me that I've uploaded in the project section, you can use these brushes as well. It will help you to create amazing shedding and smooth shedding, smooth rendering. For that, you can use these brushes. These are makeup brushes which are easily available in the market. If you don't find these kind of brushes having soft bristles, you can use a watergular flat brush as well, which also does have a very soft bristles. Now, last but not the least, the next material what we are going to talk about is about the papers. What are the paper that we may use? Just have a small and easy understanding of the paper. You should use a rough paper. Paper should have a textured surface, very medium textured surface paper or a cartridge paper. Whatever is available nearby your local market of available can be used. Brands like Canson or Fabriano or Strathmore can be used or Camplin also can be used. If you do not have that much of material and you are limited to your material stocks, you can only use SP pencil and the sharpener, and the eraser, and the normal paper. That's it. Yes, you heard it correctly. You only need these three materials to complete the project. So this is all about the art supplies about the class project that you need to do for more detail of the tools that we are going to use. You can watch my other class as well. That is Beginner's guide to portrait drawing, and the link has been provided in the description of this class. I'm so excited to see you in the next lesson of this class in which we are going to unveil the process step by step in a easier manner. 3. Familiarisation to the Basic Shapes: In the first lesson, we're going to talk about the basic shapes and understand each and every shape and how it can be drawn and how we are going to use it. The first shape is the most basic one, that is of course, the circule. How to draw the circle in a easier manner. I have showed here a few techniques in which one rotate the rest. Only in the another one we rotated the whole hand. This is the two method that you may use to draw any circle. These are the other forms in which we also draw the axis as well. These are the ways to draw the circle. Whichever the way you want, you can create it. The second basic shape that we are going to use in this class is the triangle. As we all know, triangle is another basic shape. It is having three edges and three lines. And it can be an isometric or an equilateral, or a triangle that may be used in different forms, in a different manner. These shapes can also be used. The third ship is the hexagon. As we all know, the hexagon does have six lines, six sides, and six edges. This can also be used in various aspects. We are going to use it and I'm going to elaborate it each and every shape and how we can actually use it in drawing a particular object that we are going to discuss. This is the third shape. Sometimes we may also use this hexagon as well. This is not, this is just a shape just like a two papers and we put it into side by side. Then the last shape, which is another important shape, that is known as cylinder. Cylinder does have two circles and it can be cojoined by a simple paper. This cylinder can be used in a vertical or horizontal shape that I have drawn here. These are the basic shapes that we're going to use it another cylinder. You can also see it here. It can vary the depth or the height of the cylinder as well. These are all few basic shapes that we're going to use in the upcoming lessons of this class. See you in the next lesson. 4. Drawing Objects through Shapes: In this lesson, we are going to talk about drawing through shapes. How we can actually use the shapes that we have discussed in our previous lesson. Then by using those objects, we're going to create a shape to create real object. Create a real thing or still live thing. Let's say I'm adding three circles at a time. Here I'm adding three circles and try to create, uh, create an object using the three circles. How we can do this? Here, I'm going to draw an apple. I'm using these three circles. What I've showed here, this is the first, this is the second, and this is the third circle here. We can also nomenclate it like this, then just a C, what I've created on the tangent of this circle. Then I'm going to add a line which is actually meeting all the circles simultaneously. This is actually the shape of an apple. This is how actually we need to think of an object. Object is still life whenever it came into your mind or whenever it came in front of your eyes. You just try to find out the shapes. Now if we add some shading onto it, like this is the basic structure, what you are seeing here, you just want to add shape and make it a real one. I'm just adding a few crosshtching lines. You can see here, I'm just trying to, filling it up using the prosstchings, using the B or to be pencil for that. It is just claims we are going to discuss in very detail about this. Also here we are going to do a small demonstration, a quick demonstration. Let's say light is coming from another angle. We can also decide about the light and shades. This portion is much more darker where I'm adding more layers and now I'm using the four pencil for darker lines. Just a random thing, I'm just adding a few more dark layers. Keep on adding just a tip here is to don't put pressure on onto the paper or onto the pencil. Just do it in a very light manner without putting pressure onto the pencil. And keep on adding layers, layer by layer process. Do not try to do it in the single layer, rather just adding layers. This is how we are going to finish this apple. Just a preliminary shading techniques. Now we can actually create another object by this technique just for another example. Second, we are going to use the circles in a different manner. Let's say a small circle, Abi circle. Here I'm going to draw a peer fruit, another kind of a fruit. And it is a very simple one. This is very basic, everyone should do it and just try to see the resultant. It's very quick, just two circles in the same manner. I'm going to create an outline outside of the circles and then finishing it using the crossching technique. This is the way actually you try to find the object using the shapes, different shapes. These are just small examples. Don't think that this can only be used in this limited way. Rather, in the upcoming lessons we are going to see more different and more complex structure, how actually they can be drawn using this simple technique. Because foundation and fundamentals are very simple, it should be simple so that you can actually have an idea on it, and your foundation and fundamentals have to have a strong understanding. Now I'm going to take another example here. I'm going to take a different shapes. Let's say I'm going to take a circle. And then the next object should be a cylinder. The next cylinder I'm going to add a cylinder with a circle. You can see here, it's a very simple way to actually create an object and now I'm inserting the circle into this cylinder. Any guesses you can actually made here, what shape it can actually create. This is something which is very funny also because when you are going to do like this, you can create a beautiful understanding of these objects. And also you can actually see the fundamentals are always same, the fundamentals of anything. Any object in this nature, it is created by the simple shapes. This is the beauty, actually. The last object, what I have created here is just a cup and it's having spiral shape. The technique is very similar to the previous one. This is it. It is very simple. When you're going to draw it, you can find it in your own experience that these techniques are very simple. But itself, it's very effective for drawing something very quick. You are going to be used true of these techniques, then you won't take much of time as well. This is very helpful for any beginner to actually start drawing different objects. Here I am adding more shading, make it a little more realistic one, these are just few basic shading elements. What I'm adding here, this is the super basic technique, what you can use. I'm going to see you in the next lesson of this class in which we are going in depth with this subject. I can't wait to see you in the next lesson. 5. Still Life Drawing through Shapes: Now we are going to talk about how we can actually draw a still drawing using these shapes. Here is the reference that I have chosen to draw a kettle and a jug and then a small vase. These are the pencils that I'm going to use here. B, B, and four or six pencil, whatever you have. That would be nice. We are going to start with a circle. The first object that we require to the jug is the circle. Then we need cylinder, then we use a triangle. These shapes actually you can see how we are going to use a triangle, because triangle is required in the shape of the kettle. This triangle, right angled triangle is required. Okay, first we are going to start with the jug and I'm going to draw the circle inside the circle, we can also assume the cylinder as well. We are going to use these two object preliminary to draw the outer peripheral of the ju. You can choose your own images as a reference images as well. To draw any object, the concept will be same. I am just creating the outlines of the jug. While drawing these objects, all you need to observe or all you need to keep in mind that you draw pressure with a very light pressure on the pencil you should draw. Because if there is any changes, you can actually easily create that change into your drawing without diminishing the paper. I'm going to the cap of the jug as well. Here we are going to use the strangle as well. This is how you actually, this is triangle isomeriangt', any kind of a triangle. It's not about the mathematics to understand, it's about the shape that actually involve a shape that is known to us that may be that it is a triangle, maybe it is a cylinder. That we actually knew in our childhood or in our learning age. We actually understood these shapes and we know how to draw those shapes. When we know how to draw those shapes, we can easily understand how to draw the object as well like the jug as well, because that object has been created by using those basic shapes. Now at the end, I'm going to actually draw the handle as well. And it's something which is very simple and don't need any such explanation onto them. This is how we have created a jug, a very similar jug to the original one. Now we're going to draw another object that is a jar. You can see here for the cap of it, we used a cylinder. For the bottom thing, we are going to use the cylinder as well, but it is having a longer height. Then we are inserting ellipse shape, not a circle shape, but an ellipse shape to create that aura of the outer peripheral of that object, you can use a circle as well, but it becomes a little bit more longer as compared to the original one. This is how we actually assume the shape of this jar. It is very easy. You can see I'm just rooming it up. This is very easy to draw. This is a very basic to draw. The third object is our kettle. This is a little bit complicated, that difficult, but it is a little bit. I'm going to use a cylinder first, then a vertical line actually match the axis. Then again, a small cylinder for the cap of the kettle. You can see I'm drawing it very easily. And now I'm using the triangle shape as well, the three shapes I have used in this drawing. First a big cylinder, then the small cylinder, and then the triangle. All these shapes help us to actually draw the kettle. You may draw it to any shape, any size, even a bigger one. I'm just giving you a brief about that. When you are able to draw in a way, in this way you can actually draw any object so quickly, so randomly, and with a perspective correct drawing, it's very important. There are many people who used to draw still life, but their perspective may be sometimes not correct. But here, when you are going to assume the shape, assume the object using various shapes, it's very easy for you to draw it correctly, perspectively correct. Which is very important for any artist to draw the correct perspective of any object. So this is how I draw the handle as well. For that, you don't need any such explanation. Now the mouthpiece is critical, crucial one, because here you cannot see a single shape for it. How you can actually imagine that, that I'm going to let you understand first. Let me just draw it in a way that how we actually did in past, okay? But how to assume it with the shapes that I'm going to let you understand right after this. Let's see here. I'm zooming it up and letting you understand the shape anatomy of this, the mouthpiece. This is various rectangles that included with each other and created this shape. This is something that you can actually, you may draw like this if the kettle is size, If it is not that big, you can draw it directly as well. Third part is very important, that is shading here that we need to understand. All should know this and why it is so important. Because for understanding the realism thing, we should imply the shading part as well. For shading thing, we are going to understand three cross hatching techniques. That is vertical, then the curve, and then the diagonal one or the horizontal one as well. This shading, we are going to implement these type of techniques. Here you can see I'm using the vertical hatches. I'm applying the vertical lines to the object so that it can be more realistic one or try to put life into that actual line drawing thing. Converting the, any object from two dimensional to three dimensional is known as a shading in the perspective of drawing this definition as very accurate. Now I'm using the contours or curve hatchings as well. You can see here I'm just creating a few lines which are angular in shape and having a curve within them similar to the curves. I'm just doing it here as well. And I just doing the curves here as well. This is the basic one. We are going to understand this in detail when we are going to draw the portrait here. You just have to have an idea of it in a similar manner. I'm going to do here as well for jug. We may vary our shading from the straight lines to curve line. Similarly, we can approach that as well. Again, I'm going to draw vertical lines, vertical hatches, and try to get it a shape, the curve, because you can see it's a circular jug. And it is having a curve as well on its outer peripheral surface. For vertical hatches, it would be more suitable and just a bend from the center of it to create a curve shape. This is something that you can experience it while doing the same. I'm not going to put much effort to create it more realistic, rather just to let a decent one and let you understand the shading phenomena of it. Now you can see here I'm just using the horizontal hatches as well with a slight curve into it so that it can look more realistic. One, this is all about the shading part when you are adding into the objects, as this is not the core idea of this class, I haven't did it in detail. You can watch my other skillshare class for that, in which I have explained it in a much deeper manner for the cross hatching things. I hope you understand this lesson as well, of drawing the various objects. I'm going to see you in the next lesson. 6. Drawing Human Head through Shapes: Now we are entering into the portrait drawing techniques using the shapes segment. This is a very important lesson of this particular class because here we are going to understand how shapes can help us to draw a head or a face using the shapes. Here I'm going to take few shapes like circle the square, then the triangle. Maybe let us adding these shapes to create a head first, the circle, then the square. You can see how I'm putting the square just below the circle, center line. Then the triangle I just put just below the square or a rectangle. This is the shape, the basic shapes that has been created seems to be like a head or a shape of the face, frontal, face. This is the core technique. Basically, this is something which came up from the foundation. Okay, if you understand this, you can draw a face in a very less time and with a very accurate perspectively corrected face. This is the head shape that we have implemented and that we have understood here. And then you can add here, or you can actually add different features as well, just to make it more realistic. One, you can actually understand how actually shape has been created by the nature itself. You can see the Almighty God. You can see the belts, the eye belt, then the nose belt, then the lips. These shapes, when you're adding into them, into your head, you can find a face very easily. This is something which is known as how you actually perceive the art. Now you understand the art in a different manner. Let's take another example. I take a circle, then trapezoid. This may be trapezoid or a frustum. Or when you are going to cut a triangle into two pieces, you find trapezoid and another one is a triangle. This shape can also be used then the triangle. These three shapes can also help us to create a head. Because the earlier one is looking like a bulge shape. The cheeks are being extended. But here you can draw a very trimmed chimed face. This actually up with you how and which shape of the face you want to draw. You can actually change the shapes as well. Here you can see this is much more a generic face, which actually we see in our day to day life having a trimmed cheeks and the jaw lines as well. Here also, we can actually assume the eyes belt, then the nose belt and the lips belt. These are very quick examples. Let you understand about the fundamental core, fundamental of drawing a head using the shapes. This is something which I don't think that you have seen earlier. Also like how we can actually involve various shapes into the face, we actually easily draw any shape. This is something which a very small kid can also understand this type of phenomenon if you give it a try to your kid, let's see how he or she is going to use these shapes to draw a very complex looking face or head. Lastly, let's take another example in which we are going to different shapes. Not the different shapes, same same shapes, but having a different angle. Having a different rotation. The trapezoid have a different angle. After implementing it, we can get a three fourth perspective phase. This is the perspective phase that we are going to draw here. This is three fourths perspective. If you further elaborate it, it can convert into the realistic three fourth looking phase. This is how you actually can change the angle, the rotation of these objects and create a different angle phase easily. You can get it in the correct proportion and the correct perspective of the face as well if you are using the shapes. This is all about the understanding of portrait, drawing a portrait using different shapes. We are going to finish it out in the coming lesson. Let's see. 7. Drawing Eyes Using Shapes: Now here we are going to talk about the I for the I's, we're going to draw hexagon. Now let's discuss a very interesting part in hexagon. As we know, hexagon does have equal x and y. It's mean, the two portions of the hexagon does equal distance like this portion and the upper portion does have a same equal values like x and y does have an equal value but you have to create x is greater than that means the lower portion of the hexagon should have a lower value as compared to the upper portion of the hexagon. The line actually help us to get a different dimension of this hexagon and really changes its shape. This is a practical one. You can use another shapes as well, like someone use an almond shape. Someone may use a circle shape as well. It's basically depending upon individual, how they can actually understand how they can actually perceive these shapes into the reality thing. The almon, you can see here the eye shape using the blue pencil. I'm using the blue pencil. That is why. So that you can actually see the real shape and how it has been there inside the hexagon that we have created a very different one. Rather, this is the basic shape of the eye. The pupil, the upper lid, the lower lid that I have created here. It seems very basic one, but when you are going to add the layers, when you're going to finish it, it will become a realistic one, for sure for making it realistic. We're going to use a black colored pencil and you can see how I'm going to convert this eye into a very realistic eye. The shape, the basic thing is always the same. This is what you need to understand by this class. And the whole purpose of this class is this. Only so that you can actually understand. Drawing, whatever you draw, whatever you draw, it does have a basic element into it. And there's nothing that you cannot learn if you actually understand the basic of it. If you understand the foundation, you can actually understand the mysterious, the superficial part of that particular thing as well. This is a little bit theoretical one, but does have a very significant amount of information. You can see how I am changing it into the realistic one. I'm just gradually adding the layers and attaining the values. And I keep on doing this by circulism method and adding small circles in small, very small side circles into the pupil and the iris as well, just making it realistic. I am using the red pencil as well as this class is not for colored pencil drawing. It is just a demonstration that how much a realistic drawing you can do using the same principle. Whether you are into a colored pencil artist, whether you are into a watercolor techniques, the shapes eventually are the basic one. It is required everywhere in soft pistons as well or any other media. Whatever you'd like to use in your drawing, you can use this technique and create a super realistic eye like this. This is one method of drawing the eye using the hexagon, a different hexagon, another method that can be used by many of the artists. And I'm also using this method in which I'm going to draw horizontal line, vertical line, and then then another small circle that I have already elaborated in my previous skillshare class, which I have told you about. The various expressions of the same principle you can use here as well. And draw a very simplistic eye. The vertical, the horizontal line, then the circle, then another circle, then the upper lid and lower lid. This circle can go out the lower or the upper lid as well. It's not something that has to be there inside the eyes because opening of the eye is vary from one situation to the other situation. You are going to draw a normal line, normal position of the eye, normal opening of the eye. And then draw in this manner and then just erase the portion that is going beyond the boundaries of lower Led. Similarly, we are going to finish this as well to the extent and let you understand how you can draw any I using these two methods in a very simpler manner. You are not going to fail by doing this every time. It's something which is a mathematical thing. Every time you are going to use the technique, you will be succeeded for sure. Always remember this in mind. After adding few more layers of dark portion, we have achieved the details of this I as well. Similarly, if you want to add more layers, it will become more realistic one. I'm going to see you in the next lesson. 8. Drawing Nose Using Shapes: Now let's talk about features of face and how we can actually draw using the various shapes. As mentioned in the previous class, we're going to use the shapes and going to draw nose, eyes, lips, and understanding the preliminary structure, the basic structure. First of all, for understanding the nose, we're going to use a circle and a triangle. This is very simple and very fundamental. We used to do a drawing using the shape in our childhood as well. And this is why this class is very interesting. You have to implement those techniques what you were using since long back here you can see I have drawn a triangle and then I'm going to draw a circle inside that triangle in a similar manner, then two small circles as well. Then going to create a line, a circular line, a curve line, which is actually meeting all the peripherals of the circule in this manner. This is the basic shape of the nose that you can actually achieve using this method. This is a very basic structure. You can actually go in detail with that and then create a realistic nose as well, but the structure is the same. Now comes another side of the nose. If we are going to draw a different side of the nose, like we are seeing the face from the side view, then all you need to do is to just change the location of the circle like the big circle should have on the same side, a similar side but another smaller circle can going to merge into the original circle, the big circle. The, the shape that we have found here is a little bit different in the structural manner, but the outcome is a lot more different. This is the side view of the nose. This is how you actually change the position of the circles or the triangle and get the same nose from the different perspective. In this manner, you can actually achieve the required goal by by changing the shapes, by changing the shape, or by changing the location of the shape as well. This is very important. All you need to understand, where to place those structure, where to place those shapes, which actually help eventually help you to create different perspective looking faces, different perspective looking features. Now I'm adding the shades and just using the lines, the normal cross hatchings, and adding depth into the nose. When you are doing that, you have to follow that principle. What I have told you in the previous class, not only the previous class, but in this class as well. In the previous lesson, I have told you how to actually get that depth using the cross hatching. And then you can use your fingers as well to smudge it properly. Then again, come step by step and adding more dark values. When you are doing like this, it will become more realistic one and rather just a normal sketch of a thing. This is how you should add more and more depth into that. This is all about the nose. In the next lesson, we're going to talk about the eyes and then the lips. Stay tuned, I'm really excited to see you in the next lesson. 9. Drawing Lips Using Shapes: Now the last part of features of the phase. Here we are going to draw the lips. For drawing the lips, again, there are two methods of doing that. The first method is the two circles that I've mentioned here. I'm going to draw a horizontal and the vertical line. And then fixing these circles in different positions. Two on the lower portion of this axis. Two should be on the upper portions like this. Just these four circles help us to create Lip. This is a little complicated one, but it helps you to basically draw realistic Lip outlines. And this will also eventually help you to achieve the realism and the real lines that are there in drawing the Lip. But this, this method actually, what should I say? It's not something which actually connect with you. It's a very complicated one. And drawing four circules, then the position of the circule is again a subjective one. It seems very uncomfortable for a beginner to understand a Lip like this. There is another method in which we are going to take a from the hexagon. That method will help me or many artists to draw a Lip in a easier manner. Here I'm going to draw the hexagon equal oxagon, having a P equal upper and lower portions. And then inside the xagon, I'm going to easily draw the lip just by bending the center line and the upper lip line and the lower lip line. Just it is very simple. I don't think that It seems to me to draw different circles. Positioning in them, rather creating hexagon and draw the lip in a simpler manner. My aim is to let you understand drawing in a very simple manner. Here I can easily say that using the hexagon for the drawing of the Lip is much more easier than the previous method. This is how we actually draw the lip as well. And I've already told you about other features like eyes and nose. I think this is sufficient enough information to draw a portrait. And we should go into the final class in which we are going to talk about the outlines of the pace and how we are going to fix the portrait, how we're going to resemble the portrait. One more important thing that we should understand here, if suppose phase is three fourth one, the shape of the features can vary just for the understandings sake. If the face is three fourth one, the hexagon will also have a change in anatomy in the shape into their dimensions. Similarly, we are going to change the dimensions of lips as well. What you're seeing here, it does have a three fourth perspective lip. It's not from the front face, front side. Rather it is having a 34 perspective. Just by changing the dimensions of the shape that we are using, we can actually achieve the exact prota, perspective of that particular feature as well. Let me quickly show you how I can change it realism by adding the shading portion, Quickly going to add more layers into them, and then creating a realistic one just with this feature only I'm adding layers and then I'm subtracting them by using the eraser as well, like I'm doing here. Similarly, we are going to achieve it, a very realistic lip, just from the basic shape. I'm going to see you in the next lesson of this class. 10. Drawing Portrait Outlines: Hey everyone. We are here again with the next lesson. Here we are going to understand this space rather than to draw this space. Let's first understand this space in terms of shapes. How we are going to draw this, as this is the project that we are going to do by using the shapes. First of all, we are going to draw a big size circle and just let me write the heading of this particular class. Then we are going to draw it. Draw this step by step. What are the shapes that we are going to use here? As I've already mentioned in the previous lessons, we are going to use circle, then the square shape, or we are going to add a square and the frustum shape. The shape would be like this. Which are going to be created by the square and then the frustum or the to shape we're going to use here. Going to, let's understand this. This is very important because you can draw it very easily. But you have to first understand what to draw first, the circle thing. I've drawn a circle, a big size circle. And then I am bisecting the circle in two portion just with the straight line. The straight line help us to understand like where the features are going to met the center line of that features, of the features, not the face. Always remember this. Then, another shape of this, what we have already included, that shape, we are putting just below the center line of the circle. It's going to get like this. All you need to understand, the shape does have a sharp edges, but when we are dealing with the portrait, we shouldn't have a sharp edges. This is very important to always remember. You should create a soft edges or the chamfered one tip for drawing any portrait. None of the feature is as sharp as the edges of the shape. Similarly, I'm going to draw here as well. Always remember this thing, that it is a three fourth perspective face. Not the three fourth one, but the face a little inclined towards it, right, and having a downward tendency. It's not the straight face, it's having an inclined one, features are more towards the right side of this face. Okay. You should always keep in mind that is why there is a vertical line. What I have drawn here, inclined vertical line. Then I'm going to find out, finding out the features like eyebrows or this always comes later. After drawing the main peripheral features like jaw line, cheeks or other outer areas, then I'm going to draw the internal features like eyes, lips. And knows just for understanding of it, how we are going to begin this lesson is all about to initiate. How to initiate it, just finding out the outer surfaces, then finding out the inner values, this phenomena we are going to use. And how we are going to use the square, then the trapezoid and the circle for drawing any phase. This is all about understanding the head. Now I'm going to see you in the next lesson and the last lesson in which we are going to draw this portrait and finish it. Let's see how we are going to do this. 11. Shading & Finishing Portrait: Now we are going to talk about the final portrait that we are going to draw. As I have already drawn the outlines in the last lesson here, I'm just going to tell you about adding of details and how we are going to get the two dimensional image into that three dimensional image and going to make a realistic one. Here I am just finishing few outlines just by observing the jaw lines and a few other features as well. Because in the last lesson we have unfinished it and it was just rough outline here. I just want to confirm those outlines and now I'm adding depth into it. I'm starting from the HB pencil and just to darken up a few areas so that we can actually confirm the values here. I'm doing the same thing. I'm just doing the cross etchings, vertical hatches and a few diagonal hatches as well. Here I'm doing the vertical hatches, and you can see I'm doing it very lightly. And then I am using my fingers to basically smudge those values, basically mix those values. Now here also, you can see I'm doing it very lightly with a very light pressure, and I'm using the HB pencil. You can use darker pencil as well, that I'm also going to use in a later stage. But as of now, I am just trying to capture the exact value and the exact proportion of the face, like the eyes, the laps, all these areas, whether they are correct or not. So I'm not that sure, that's why I'm doing it very lightly. Suppose if there are a few changes that we came to know in a later stage that we can easily change those values. Now I'm darkening up the portion, the iris portion, and the pupil portion. For that I'm using four pencil directly. This pencil is very dark and the moment you start using the pencil, you can find out that the darkness basically occupying the paper very easily. As I already mentioned in the class project and material lesson, that this paper is rough in nature, having a little texture, medium craned paper. It is, whenever you are going to use a high grade pencil, it smudge in a better way. It is mu very smoothly. You don't need actually to put a lot of effort to basically do the smudging thing. Like what I'm doing here, I have started the smudging process and I am using this make a brush that I've mentioned in the material section here. I'm going to use it and I'm just going to mix those values. I have done a little speed up the video speed so that I can take you to the further process here. I am going to use needed eraser and I'm finishing the one I. As I am finishing it, I'm just observing the original image and I'm trying to get the exact values, the exact size of the eye. The moment I get the correct values inside the eye and I found it satisfactorily, then only I am going further for the other details of the other portion of the portrait. Why is it so? Because let's say if that feature is not going to match that I is not going to match. The other features are also not going to match for sure. You have to confirm that whether you have drawn it in a correct way or not. For that you have to finish one portion of any one of the I and then you further going ahead with the other features because I is something which actually take a lot of similarities. What you can actually achieve when you make a portrait and if the eyes look similar, it would have created almost 70 to 80% of your resemblance in the portrait. Other features, if let's say they are matching and eyes are not matching, then the whole purpose of the portrait has been vanished. This is very important that you have to keep in mind that whenever you are going to draw any portrait, first of all, first and foremost, it is very important to resemble the eye if there is. I assembles and the other features are not that resemble. It is okay for any artist, but if I are not going to match anything else is matching, it's not going to work for you. This is very important. It's a tip that I have provided here. It is very important to keep in mind. Now again, I'm doing the same process that the process I have done in this earlier. I, I'm doing the same process here and just adding a few values using four B pencil for darker dias, HB pencil for lighter dias. Here I'm going very steadily, very slowly, and not in a rush or hurry to create the shedding thing. Because the process here is a simpler process for beginners. Suppose if I'm going to draw it like an artist, like I have done in the other class of skillshare. In that way, I have just created the dark areas, just added the dark areas, and then I'm working on the subtraction. But here the case is very different. Now you can see I am using the brush to smudge few values and now I'm working on no part when I'm going to use nose part. The same process I have to pursue here as well. I'm going with the SB pencil with a very light pressure on it and then darkening a few values, seeing whether the things are correct or not. If I'm satisfied with the resemblance, then only I am going to move forward. Again, I'm using the needed eraser for assuming the resemblance. This is very important process here. Again, I'm using thin brush. It is a thin brush and having very few bristles onto it. Very few brushes have been installed in the mouth of it. Just try to blend those values which are there onto the paper. And then I'm coming up with the darker pencil. This process is very similar and it is very simple for any beginner to understand. First, I'm going with a lighter pencil, firming up those values, then I am smudging it up, and then I'm using another darker pencil. Whenever you do this process, you have to follow the same process throughout on the portrait. Don't change your process everywhere in the portrait, in the same portrait. Otherwise, nothing came up with the final portrait. This is always something that you keep in mind. Now, I'm working on the lips. When you are working on the lips, the process is very same. But here for upper lips, I am going upward direction, the shading portion. The lines should be in the upward direction. For the lower lip, the line should be come in the downward direction. This is something that you keep in mind. Then try to blend it, try to smudge it out. Then finishing it up and just rolling the pencil, actually, not putting any pressure, it's a zero pressure thing. Then I'm using the brush, the thick brush and trying to smug those values as well. Let's suppose if you do not have that brush thing and how to achieve those smudging, it's not that something which is impossible for any artist, it's just that you have to work more on pencil and the time for the portrait may be enhanced. These tools are there to actually reduce the time which you actually consume in a portrait. That will help you to reduce the time process and it actually gain the darker portion in a very short time. If you don't have those tools, you can actually use your pencil and then try to add more and more layers of gray tones. Now I am just roughing up the jewelry portion here. I'm not at all going to finish it up because it's not something which is related to our project thing. This is not our aim for this particular class. Here, I have just a rough sketch of it and not going to finish it up because the main purpose of this portrait has been, I think, resolved. I think we have achieved it because the features are very much similar to the original image. Since the process that we have used is completely from the shape thing, you can see here, the process and how much actually you can achieve by understanding the shape of any portrait. Let's say the head and then the chin line. The cheeks line, the jaw line. All that comes into account. If you are able to find out the shape inside the face, you can actually draw it. It's very phenomenal to understand because there are so many, so many ways, so many different techniques like let's say alums method, there are so many real method and Bridgeman method, there are so many methods are there, but they are quite difficult to understand. For a biginer, Actually, not for the artist but for bigner it is very difficult. But here you can see just with the shapes, just with a square. Just with a circle. We have achieved that much. This is something which is a remarkable thing. Now I'm going to finish it up, and I'm just adding a few darker tones with a pencil. The hatching thing is always visible, you can see here. And then now I am smudging it using the brush. This is the whole process that we have completed here. Few more detail we can actually add, or we can work on it on so many areas. But the process is same here. We have achieved a lot and understood a lot. I'm going to see you in the concluding part of this class. See the. 12. Conclusion: Hey, rock star artists, Can we get a virtual applause? Who is the part of this class? So we have started with a simple circle. Yes, just a humble circle. And turn it into the canvass of personality expressions and downright awesomeness. Now you can say that you are the master of turning those simple shape into the great masterpieces. Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that you have now got the skills to draw faces, objects still lives, that are so on point amazing, right? I hope that you have had a lot of fun in this class. And we can say that this is not the fantastic, but this is the shape tastic journey. Remember that art is like a pizza. There is no wrong way to do it and it is the best. When shared it with friends, I appreciate you to share your artwork in the project gallery section so that other your friends can see that and appreciate you in a manner that you can enhance your skills. It's time to unleash your new found superpower in the class gallery and publish them in the project gallery section, so that the other artists and your friends can also see those artworks. They can also get some confidence by your artworks as we wait, adieu to this creative fiesta. I can't wait to see how you shape the future of your artistic endeavor. Keep sketching and unleashing your inner artistic child. The world really need your artistic presence. Stay wild. Stay creative life is short, but artists forever. I will surely provide you the feedbacks on your projects and I am eagerly waiting for your artworks to say in the project gallery section. And then I'm going to give you, provide you my feedback so that you can again work onto them and enhance your artistic abilities. My other skillshare class link has been provided in the description which is related to this class. Goodbye my friend. I hope to see you in my upcoming Skillshare class. Tata Bye bye.