Female Portrait Sketching Guide for Procreate.

1. Part 1. Intro: Hi, thanks for joining my class. I'm Lara floras, and today we'll learn all that we need to know in order to sketch portraits. I'll be teaching you step-by-step onto how to draw the face, facial features, and basic hairstyles. I'll be guiding you throughout the class and I'll be giving you some personal tips to improve your art skills. So what are we waiting for? Let's go. 2. Part 2. Materials : So you want to learn how to draw. That's great. You're off to a good start. Let's first start off with our materials. I use the iPad Pro and the Apple pencil on art program that I use is procreate, which I highly recommend feel be drawing on an iPad. The procreate app offers a lot of tools and as a wide variety of brushes for different kinds of texture. The app is easy to learn and user-friendly. If you don't have the app, that's OK. You can also use these apps, metabolic paint, it was paint x. These apps are free and pretty easy to navigate as well. If you don't have a drawing tablet or an iPad, you can also draw traditionally using pencil and paper. Once you've gathered your materials, had onto the next video. 3. Part 3. References: So when starting off sketch, don't be afraid to use references. Go around the internet and look for references you can base off from. You can also ask your friends or siblings to model for you so you can get the angles and proportions right? So you might be asking why are references important? References are definitely important when learning proportions, angles, anatomy, et cetera. What our references, there's a higher chance we could learn the wrong way of drawing a portrait. The angles can all be off. Some facial features can be a little bit misplaced. Those components contribute a lot for a piece to look beautiful. So take your time and looking for a reference because it'll really enhance your final piece. You're probably asking yourself, which references should I pick them? Definitely choose references you are comfortable with and matches your skill level. Pick references where you can learn a lot from. And what I mean by that is after you've done that piece, you've learned more about how to draw and possibly learned a new technique. After some time, you can pick much more challenging references once you're skilled progresses. In this class, I've already picked AS a reference that's suitable for both beginners who wants to learn how to draw and people who just want to practice or even improve their current skills. In the next video, we'll learn how to draw a base sketch with a reference. 4. Part 4. Base sketch: As I mentioned on the previous video, I've already picked the reference photo for our class today and here it is. So what we'll do now is analyze the shapes and lines we see in the photo and draw them. Here's an example. The main sheep is a circle. Then we'll add the guidelines for the facial features. Then I'll add a soft tip triangle shape and connected with the rest of the circle. That'll be the jaw. I'll then extend the vertical line just a little bit and then add two lines with curved edges. Right beside. That'll be the neck. Then for the collarbone, I'll draw another triangle shape connected with the shoulder. Awesome. You just learn how to draw the face will now use the same technique to draw our reference. I'll first demonstrated, then you can try it out for yourself afterwards. A tip when creating a base sketch is you don't have to place too many details yet. So don't stress yourself out. We only need this as a guide for the proportions. So it's okay if there aren't any details on again, you can pause the video here and try it out yourself. Once you're done, we'll draw the hairstyle in the next video. See you there. 5. Part 5. Hairstyles: When drawing hair will also start by looking for the basic shapes. Then we'll draw curves that make the flow for the rest of the hair. Here's an example. This is important. Sore hair won't go all around the place. This will also help make the hair stem out in add movement. So let's slowly draw the flow and curves first. Then we'll clean it up with darker outlines to make the hair shape stand out. I'll be demonstrating it first and afterwards. You could try it out for yourself. A tip when drawing hair is to be loose. Let your hand do the work. And the more new cities, the more natural the movement of the hair will be. You can pause the video here and try it out yourself. After you've done the hair will move on to the facial features. See you there. 6. Part 6. Facial Features : You're doing awesome. Keep it up with the facial features. We'll start with the eyes first. Take a look at your reference first, then describe the ICC. What are they communicating? Or the sad? Are they surprised or are they happy? The eyes and eyebrows communicate a lot of emotion. So it's best to capture the emotion correctly. We'll start by joining the upper eyelash than shape out the rest of the eyes. Then finish off with the bottom part, then add the eyebrows. Number one, when drawing iss is draw both of them at the same time. And what I mean is switched from eye to eye from time to time. Like if you draw one eye at a time, the other I can look way different from the first iPad you drew. So if you drew the upper eyelash On the left, I switched to the right, I Android's upper eyelashes as well. Tip number two is take a step back from time to time and look at your eyes from afar. I usually draw my I zoomed in. Sometimes when I zoom out, I realized the eyes are too big and not proportion, right? So don't forget to take regular stuff backs to just check the i's and if it's proportioned right. Tip number three is work on the piece as a whole, meaning work on other areas of the drawing as well. And this piece, I drew the Irises after I drew than those in lips, which helps me look at the portrait as a whole. It also helps each facial feature to blend well together. You've just learned how to draw an eye. Awesome. You can pause the video here and try it yourself. So now will proceed to the nose. Join. Those is pretty simple. Just draw the outline and add some shadows so it pops up in our drawing. Pretty simple, right? You can pause the video here and try it out yourself. Last but not least, we'll be the lips. Lips are pretty simple as well. Take a look at the reference photo and see the shape the lip is based on. I'll quickly demonstrate the lips and you can try it out afterwards. You can pause the video here and try it out yourself. That's about we've completed the face, great job. Head to the next video and we'll clean up the rest of the sketch, but shadows in details. 7. Part 7. Shadow & Details: We're almost done with this piece. You're doing great. To finish the sketch will add the small details in some shadows. Sore portrait pops up. Just a quick guide to shadows. Look at the example below. The shadows will be placed on the opposite side on where the light is coming from. It will be easier to nowhere shadows are placed after some time of practice. Keep practicing ok. For the details start dark ending the outlines of the key points in this piece, such as the dress, eyes, hair, and the face shape. I'll add the shadows in details first, then you can do it yourself afterwards. Right? Okay. Yes. Yes. You can pause the video here and try yourself. Your job. For the next video for our class project. 8. Part 8. Class Project/Outro: You've just made a portrait. Great job. I'm proud of you. You're all set to drawing all kinds of portraits. Now, for the class project, just follow this class step-by-step and take a photo of your finished piece and boasted here. Thank you so much for joining my first-class. I'm looking forward to seeing you again in my next one.