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1. 1. Introduction: Does your drawings
look like this? This, or this? And do you want to take
it to the next level? From my drawing to a
sketch like this or this. I believe there are
three things that you can work on to
improve your art. Firstly, setting,
then proportions, and the most important
observation. And I believe with practice, you can really improve these
skills and improve your art. That's truly looks real. Hi, I'm an artist,
illustrator, designer. And in this course,
I will really help you to make your
artwork look better, is to follow steps and tips. I've always loved
making portraits. When I started drawing,
it was pretty basic, but it gave me happiness. And as I grew older, I started observing
people more and more. And it led to improving my art
and making it more detail. And in this class, I will share my learnings over my
art journey so far. Let me tell you first
for this class is not, this is not going to
be an anatomy class. The very good-looking sculpt, this class is for people who
loved drawing portraits, but I stuck in flight
looking drawings. And for people who have just put the pencil was
just loved drawing. We will draw in a fun and easy way with just the
basic art materials. We will do a facial
features step-by-step. Here we get a finished sketch. And by the end of the class, I'm sure you will
be able to improve your art to the next level. Next Saturday.
2. 2. Art Supplies & References: We'll start with,
but all our supplies you need for this
class, alright, first you need just
a sheet of paper, usually of A4 size or bigger with some
amount of thickness. It should be taken
up that it can stand your hard
strokes of pencil. Yeah, so many wonderful type of paper with excellent
quality in the market. But if you're just a beginner or had just started drawing, any piece of paper will do fine. I will be using my
sketchbook for this class. You can use any art
bad if you have one. Alright, for art supplies, I usually use four
to five pencils. I actually use a three H
pencil for light outlines. For shading. I use generally these
three to be FOB and my dark six B pencil to
share extreme dark areas. Then I use these
mechanical pencils. They achieve Han,
good and extremely useful for making
sharp lines like hairs and eyebrows and have
nibs of 0.5 MMI thing. I use the same old HB pencil for basic drawings and linework. Generally in my
starting process. Then we have a simple eraser
for erasing. Nothing fancy. Now, I have a kneadable eraser. I call it a magic eraser. You can give any
shape and it's very useful for finalizing
and creating highlights. You just have to
press it in a shape. And you just can make
any any strobe you want. Then I have a blending
stump is used for blending, does nothing but a
rolled-up paper. Guys bending is very important
for a good portrait. And if you do not have this
kind of blending stamp, you can also use
these two things, Q-tips and paper tissues. Q-tips are used for shading and the blending and the lighter
areas, smaller areas. And I also use this
paper tissues for larger areas, like skin texture. I also use this piece of paper, fold it and just make
an edge like this. It's used for blending very, very small areas,
like a straight line. You want to blend
a straight line or below the eye, eyeline
and everything. Again, if you have all
of these, then great. But if not, you
can also work with a normal HB pencil
and blending those. Just mentioned. Just you'd have strokes for darker shades and
light strokes polite. That is up. For this class. As reference, I have
taken this picture of wonder woman, girl, good girl. I don't know how to
pronounce, but you can use any color or black and white picture on any of your device, or you can use a photo print. But few things notice when you are picking up a reference, we just have to pick a
few distinct features that a person you
are drawing has. Like in this case,
I can see she has a big forehead and her face is overall big as
compared to our eyes. While notice these features have big for her and big face. I like. It will help you
in the end to make your sketch look just the
same as your reference. And on-point. If you're learning and
practicing portraits, it's better to use
front-facing portrays. Second is pick the images, are references that the face is easily recognizable
and is having a simple poles and
not references with complex facial
expressions like this. Again, keep it simple
and choose images with lips close means
no teeth showing. Reduce complexity while
you are practicing. You can get good
images for reference on Pinterest or on Google.
3. 3. Drawing Outlines With Proportions: Draw with pencil or digitally, fundamentals are
always the same. You can draw, you see
it, and then you blend. So we started with drawing
and we'll draw some outlines. When you're drying
your pages, start with shape of the head. And you put facial
features like eyes, nose, lips instead of the head. You do want to put these pieces in proportion. What
do I mean by that? You wouldn't seem drink either. The eyes are up,
not the same size. The face is little
bit distorted. Even though you
can figure it out. The person drawn this
up completely off. And yes, I have also done this. I drew this and making your
cycle. Notice something. This is what you don't
want in your final piece. So it's better to
get your proportions right in this cartoon. And this is where the
loom is method container. I don't use it personally as
I'm more of a fan artists, but it's a great way for
beginners to start practicing proportions and gets a
head of a cathedral faces. So in Loomis method, what you do is actually
first draw a circle. It needs not to be
a perfect circle, just a round shape. And this circle is nothing, just your top part of the
skull or what we call cranium. Then you draw a horizontal line in the middle of the circle. Like this. This will
be our eyebrow line. And this will divide your
circle into two-halves. Then we draw a vertical line across the middle of the circle, intersecting the horizontal line and it will make a
cross at the center. It tells you where the face
is actually looking at. In this case, it's just
looking like upfront. Now you have to use some
approximation and divide this portion in
three equal parts and do the same for
the bottom part. This top part is
going to be over here lines or where the
forehead we'll start. And on this line,
these two parts is actually two-thirds
is the nose line. Now to get the chin line, which is going to
be around here. Just roughly major
these two third region and put the chin line just at the same distance
from the nose line. We just approximation. I will mark it right here. So what it actually does is divides your face into
three equal parts. And that is what the
Loomis Metro State actually draw in the third. And it divides her face into three equal parts
from our forehead to a chain is where we will draw the ellipse at
the edge of the circle. At this edge are
the sites plane. We draw out the ears. And if you connect this
chain with the ears, it gives you the side of the
cheeks or the pipelines, or your G guanine. And generally it creates
shadows on the sides. If you come down from here, we can actually
connect our jaw line. And it will depend on
the shape of the face. If it is chubby or having
a sharp jaw line for line. But average face, we actually draw a straight line like this. Now you have the top of the head or head,
top of your head. From here you can draw the
hair on both. On this. I will just quickly play some features to place the eyes, the eye divide this portion, the middle card into
further treatment portion. And in the top
third, you please, you I think I have made
a zombie out here. Don't worry, this is forgiving. An idea will be actually
drying less horrifying phase. Remember Loomis
method is not rude, it's just a guideline to help
you practice proportions. Thumb has long paste,
like our reference, and some has small forehead
and long jaw like this one. So you have to make adjustments accordingly to get your
proportions right every time. Using the Loomis method, I have drawn the outlines for
the portraits you started. And you can see I've taken the hairline and
little bit higher as a forehead is longer
and so is the middle part. And that is why I pushed the nose line later down
closer to the chin. Here. As you can see, this top two regions are
almost equal in length. And what chain and the lips
Asia is relatively smaller. So you have to adjust your
portraits accordingly and not being stuck in the ideal phase structure
of the Loomis method. Now the outlets are,
the face is done. Now we will start putting
some facial features. And I generally
start with the eyes. So we start by placing basic
features into a portrait. And I will just start
with the eye first. At this point I'm just drawing
a very rough outline and nothing concrete company just
using the light strokes. And the thing about the
idea is that the gap between the eyes is always
equal to the length of, and what it means is, let's say the length of n
I is 3 cm and debit when both of your eyes
will also between centimeters and so will be
the width of your nose. We just measure the
length of an I, make a gap of equal
length and draw another with the same
name. Simple enough. Same way I will make the
shape of the eyebrows. At this point, they may not be looking the same as a reference. But don't worry, at this point, we're just placing the features. Now I'll draw the nose. First. I will align the edges of the nodes with edges
of the eyes like this. So I will just create a map for the nose and make an outline. Similarly, we will
outline the ellipse roughly. Two basic shapes.
4. 4. Tonal Values and Shading: We start making
facial features are very important lesson about
shading and tonal range. What are tonal values
and why we should know it sees nothing
complicated. It's just a lightness
or darkness of an area or an object. Actually, these values
make the phases, are things look real
and three-dimensional. So to show the change
in tonal values here I will draw a
circle or a sphere. Our most common
and used example, just because it really shows
the change in tonal values. Let's say the light is
falling from this side. So the backside will generally be darker than the
side facing the light. Just draw some
shapes here to show that these dark portions
are called shadows. And this portion in the middle
is called the mid tones. So they are not very dark
or very bright and they will be a draft reflection
being caused on the surface. So we have got
three tonal values. Mid tones, highlights
and the shadows. And these three tonal values. But you have to look out in your portraits or
references when you draw. Shedding and blending and
nothing but just how will you punishing between these bones that is smooth skin surface, then small areas like this. We can use Q-tips and blend from lighter to darker
areas like this. The more bending you do, more smoother surfaces,
but just don't overdo it. To blend in larger shapes. You can use a paper tissue and pull it around the
fingers like this. And it's moving in
circular motion still you get what you want. Well, the issue arises
when you look at your picture and you're confused how to
separate the tones, because in pictures
or in real life, the tones are so evenly
makes the skin is so smooth because you will not be able to just separate the tones. There are two ways
you can do this. First one is which I use
myself to squint your eyes? Yes. Look at the picture
and squint your eyes. And what it will do is to blur your vision and is
just filter out all of the unnecessary details
and allows you to pick the lightest and
the darkest tones. As you can see that I can clearly separate highlights from the mid tones and shadows. My highlights are here, here, and here you can see these
areas are the darkest areas, and these areas in the
middle of the mid-tones. This is really
helpful and I usually just keep doing it again and again because
it's very handy. This another way by which
you can do this is blurry or picture in your
smartphone or your computer. About ten to 15%. Here you can see I've learned
my picture here in my iPad, around ten per cent. And you get the same result.
5. 5. Eyes: Okay guys, now we
start with the eyes. Actually this is my favorite
part because I love drawing. I, I feel eyes are the most important feature
of a person's face. That gives you a face,
a very distinct look. They come in all
shapes and sizes and carry the
expression on the face. But it is fun to draw eyes.
This equally challenging. But if you do get
the ice correct, half of your job is done. The shape of the eye is
like a leaf. Can see. Once you draw the upper
and bottom lines, which meets at the edges, then you draw a round iris. And in a normal looking
I adopt part is hidden and the bottom part is just touching
the bottom eyelid. Now we draw the iris, which is round and the
darkest part of the eye. And then there is a small white reflection
around the iris. Shows the reflection
of the thing in front and dilation of the I
value it is logging. Make it as contrasting as possible to the
black of the pupil. Believe me guys, this gives
a very good dynamism. Now fill up the pupil
with dark shades. Let's start with an iris. Again, make contrasting
values here. Now we draw the upper
and lower eyelids. Now we do the shading
and the eyelids. It enhances the realism of
otherwise flagged living high. Then you finish off
with the eyebrows, the drawing diagonal and small strokes in the opposite
direction of dy. Keep practicing the
eyes. It's really fun. There's also a project in the project section
that you will have to draw your own beautiful light and share with the class. Now I will draw the
eyes in the same way. Just be slow and keenly observed the reference,
the expression. Take as much time as
you want in this step. Your eyes should reflect same expression as
your reference. What was on the
contrasting values? Figured out the dark areas
and work on them like here, the corner of the eyes and iris here. Good. I'm using Tooby pencil
for this amount of dark days as I've drawn the rest of the
sketch with the HB pencil. If you are using
the same pencil, apply hard strokes
for the Baptist. I will just draw the outline
of the eyebrows now and generally work on them at last
at the time of finishing. Then I do some shading
In the eyelids and keep learning with a Q-tip and keep adding more
value to the eye. Then you make the
eyelashes use dark pencil, a lighter used for
B pencil here. And make small and sharp
strokes with pointed ends. Just follow the reference. Now this I is finished. In same way we will finish
the other eye as well. But first we check the
size and proportion. The basic shape of this right? I like length, width should
be same as the left one. And then you align and start
working on the details. Alright guys, we are
done with the eyes. I think it's looking good. And portrait is
taking some shape.
6. 6. Nose: Like I know there's
not that much difficult to draw because it
has very simple structure. And there are not many
components into it. When talking about the
structure of the nose, you draw two lines that can be parallel or intersecting depending on the
width of the nose. You start from the edge of the ice and then go downwards
until they meet here. Does these three small circles, middle one other tip of the nose will be
literally though. You don't have to
draw the circles and just for the reference. Now create a shape
around this circle. Darkening the nostril area. In the middle is the nose
bone where they will be highlights and shadows
onto its sides. Depending on the direction
of the lighting. Just draw these circles
for practice and erase them later as
just for guidance. The tip of the nose is
generally big and round and it's also creates highlights
and shadows around it. So this is the basic
shape of the nose. Also like eyes, nose is not that much of a
recognizable feature. And many people can
have similar nodes. I generally flat, sharp, round, kind of a nose. So when drying
portrayed, you would not have to spend too much
time on the nose. Just use good shading around
the tip and the middle ear. Welcome to the portrait. I marked the edges of the nose and aligned with the
edges of the eye. And start drawing the nose
shape from down to up. As we start with this round
portion in the middle. Just keep doing it to
get a perfect shape. Line of the nose guard from
around bottom the eyebrows. I draw the outline and do some light shading onto the
edges. The same pencil. Now I take a darker
pencil to be in my case, and work on the dark values at the bottom of the nose
and shadow it is created. Now I will blend the strokes on the size but Cupid to give shape to the nose and create some highlights
on the tip of the nose. Now, I know that alter
done anymore shooting in bending we will do at the time of finishing
the sketch.
7. 7. Lips: Just like the eyes, lips also give a very distinct
feature to the face, and they also carry
the expression's just feel the expressions or emotions of the
person you're trying. And it will really help you
improve your basic structure. The lips is like this. Under the note is valley
kind of an area I call it knows Valley post-college
philtrum, just Googled it. Then there is a book
kind of shape here which goes and touches the
edges of the lips. The edges are mostly dark. If the lips are closed, this dark line goes through
the center of the ellipse. This part of the center
is either protruded, are going down and generally
have highlights over eight. It's lighter in contrast
to the surroundings. Bottom lip is bigger than the tablet and it
has two portions. The top portion is generally
lighter and this bottom part is little bit darker.
Shadow, mostly below. This line between them
is usually bright and shiny as most
light falls onto it. Just remember the lightness
or darkness of a thing always depends on its position in
respect with a light source. Then there are these two
lines coming down from the edge of the nose downwards
to the edge of the lips. These cheek lines includes
the lips and move with the movement of the lips as the expression on the face. This restricts if
the person is happy, shrink if it is said. So just keep observing
and keep practicing. Now coming back to a girl
before I start with the lips, I will just realign
my head shape in proportion with the eyes. As I think I made either
little bit bigger. When you draw, you have to be ready to move back and forth. As drawing is a very
iterative process and look for proportions
and every single stage. Now I'm going to
start with the lips. First off, I will just mark
the edges of the mouth, as you can see in the reference. Aligning with the
edges of the iris. I will start from one side and just follow the shape like this, making the ballpark on the
way until the other end. And completing the
upper lip line. The bottom lip starts from
somewhere here till here. I will just draw the
middle part with a very light strokes as the lips are slightly open and our grading this
darkness below. So I will use my
Toby pencil to add that value in the middle
and along the line. Always keep squinting your
eyes again and again. When working on values. Now I fill up the lips,
the light shading, keeping in mind the dark
and the light areas. Now I will add some
dark shades to the bottom and edge of the lips. Now we'll blend to smooth
strokes better now videotape. Also, I keep using
kneadable eraser to ensure highlights
are in place. After this, we get a
smooth texture of lips. Now I work on the belly
or the filter media. Again, look for
contrasting values. Here. We can see that the edges of the valley and this
bow area a little bit lighter than the
surrounding area. So I keep blending to get a
smooth texture on the edges. Even if you blend too much, just erase and do it
again, no issues of them. Now feel the lips are finished. Some detailing you
can do like add some lip cracks and
shiny highlights here. We will do it later on when
finishing and refining that.
8. 8. Ears & Hairs: The shape of data is
actually very simple. Draw the outer shape
than a small line inside the top side
from here to here. And then we draw
these pointed shape and add some shading
inside the ear. Bottom part of the ear
is always off and fled. Just observe and noted the
sheep and keep practicing. Now we'll come to a portrait
and just quickly draw the ears were left side
here is not that visible. We will tackle that it wrong. Now we will draw the right here. And as you can see, there's an earring on the bottom side. Just draw the shape and
highlight the edges. There's only one
thing to remember when drawing ears
is their length. They start below
the eyebrow line. And how long they go. For you. Just approximation by
looking at your reference. Well, the ear is complete. Now I'm coming to the here. This also generally doesn't
make me stand flush. We draw the outline of the hares and I will
start from the top. Another reference has a group of presses in this
bottom left side. I will draw them separately. Just remember to use
light and how true, depending on the light
and the dark areas. Now we just finished the
shading in the hair. First or dark portions
at the left side, which I use my phobic pencil
as it's the darkest area. And keep learning
to keep it smooth. Not doing the same at the top
and the bottom right side, which are also made up. Now the next step is to draw
hair strands are shaped. Partially fill up the
head with a light shade. I'll use my HB pencil here. Again, making
continuous strokes. This is done as weight of the
scalp should not be seen as here's how I usually take in
layers and are overlapping. Scalp is not generally seen. Then we will blend it and make it smooth as it
will draw the hair. So by now you can start making hair strands. You the shop until all
mechanical pencil and start from the center of
the head and move outwards, making long and smooth true, but not always in a line. So draw Here's an
intersecting lines. As in reality, the smoother the strokes you make, less bending, it will
have to do later on. Now the hair strands are done. We will now add depth to them
by darkening the hair in the center and in the middle regions while
following the reference. I'm using a darker to be pencil. When using the dark pencils, just remember using
different pencil for different level of darkness. E.g. I. Use for B pencil
for the darkest region. I will use that elsewhere only for same level of darkness. Again, squinting or blurring your picture will help you differentiate among dark tones. Next, we will use our
kneadable eraser to create any highlights are shiny reasons or any white or light hairs. It's a very handy tool
for this purpose. Just pressed to
make it very thin. And keep making single
strokes one at a time. Again, press it
and keep doing it. Even if you make extra white
areas like I made here, just use sharp pencil
and cover it up. Now I'm finished doing the
hairs with blending of any uneven strokes and edges of the hair to make a blur
effect on the outlines.
9. 9. Part I Final Shading: Well friends, we are
at the final stage. And what is left
with the shading and blending of the skin
an overall phase. So as we learned in the
lesson about how to separate values is going
to be very useful. Here. We can see that this case has three distinct values
on forehead, cheeks. And here, we start with the shading in first with the light strokes for mid-tones. In the area around cheekbones
are the side planes. I put little harder
strokes at the edges of the cheekbones data
in the contrast. After the mid tones are done. I will start with the
dark tones are shadows, and we'll use my pencil. There is some shadow
created by this VBE here part is darker at the edges
and lighter near the eye. That shows the gap
between the hair and the face has increased
when going down. And that is what we
have to replicate. I will make my strokes
in the same way. Now we move to the
other dark areas which is below the chin and
shared it quickly. Then the skin flush with the
tissues for larger area, and then with the Q-tips
for smaller areas, around the nose and the eyes. For much smaller areas
and lending lines. I use my self-made paper, Dave, and I will
slow it down here. So you can see also keep making strokes with the pencil as blending fades your strokes. And you'd go on bold strokes
to be seen on the edges. You do not want them to
look smudgy or faded. Now I will do another
round of shielding and blending just for fun. No, actually, you want to do it.
10. 10. Part II Final Shading: Now as my skin
texture is complete, I will draw the
eyebrows long pending the dog and sharpens it and make short and opposite strokes. Just make sure you get the
angle of the brows correct. It will make or break the
expression of the reference. And check if both the
eyebrows are aligned. Now one last step,
but very important. Put aside your
pencils and look at your sketch from
different perspectives. Left, right, from a distance. And notice if you're
missing something, I will tell you what I
noticed in my sketch. The hairline here is a bit higher than in the
reference, as you can see. And I will also make the black, small black and
whites more white, which would have been
faded during the blending. I will use my phobia
pencil for dark strokes and the kneadable eraser to
make any highlights or shine. Looking on the lip, Greg's, you wait on duc means you add shade up the HB pencil
and use the eraser over it, grid white, and then use a mechanical pencil
to add that blip. Greg's very fine. And we are done.
11. 11. Wrap Up, Final Tips & Advice: That was it guys.
Congratulations. I hope you have learned
something or the other. And it really helped me out because they're exciting
for me as a shared some tips and advice is along the class and I will
just repeat it so you can keep note of it and that will help you
in your Arjun, train your eyes,
observations and hand-eye coordination or
their skills if you don't have been easily
mastered with practice. And just keep practicing,
zooming in and out. Keep looking at your ad from
different perspectives. Or blur values. Keep doing this again and again
while you're sketching or shading really help you in getting their effort and
changes in the tonal values. So last and very important, I have a lot of patient guys. Many times your art
will be more or less, you just keep practicing. You will surely even better. Art gives immense
pleasure and happiness. So just enjoy the process.
Naveen Chandra
