Tips and Tricks: Portrait drawing #1

There might be a few things you never knew here, check them out...

1 - When drawing or painting from a photograph or from life get your angles by holding your arm out to its fullest length and holding the pencil vertically or horizontally. Example...(Horizontal) to get the angle of the eyes hold your pencil (Horizontally) across the inner eye corners. (Vertical) See where the left corner of the mouth comes to the inner corner of the eye (Vertical)

2 - Sometimes when drawing or painting from a photograph you tend to draw what you see, for instance when the person you are drawing or painting is smiling you can sometimes stunt the smile and therefore making the person's smile look static, meaning you draw the smile less wide than what it is. Always draw a person's smile a little bit wider than what it is to compensate.

3 - Eyeballs are round so put shadow in both corners to show that they are three dimensional.

4 - Nostrils have depth so don't just draw them as black holes, look carefully and you will see that there is lighter areas aswell as the darker ones.

5 - The top half of a child's head is bigger than the bottom half. (From the top of the head to the eye line).

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