Tips and Tricks: Portrait drawing #3 (Contd...)

11 - Pull out highlights in the eyes after you have shaded them with a rubber or blue tac if you are having trouble leaving white spaces for the highlights.

12 - Always think of structure of the face first before anything else...Get a good book on anatomy.

Some useful books on Human Anatomy:
Drawing Human Anatomy - by Giovanni Civardi - 88 pages
Human Anatomy Coloring Book - by Margaret;Ziemian Matt, Joe Ziemian - 48 pages
Nettler's Atlas of Human Anatomy ... - by Frank H. (ILT) Netter, Celeste G. Kirschner - 484 pages
Anatomy of the Moving Body - by Theodore, Jr. Dimon, Megan Day - 175 pages
Anatomy - by Joseph Sheppard - 224 pages
Gross Anatomy - by Kyung Won Chung - 512 pages

13 - Everything closest to us should be warmer, darker, and lighter, for example the nose is the closest to us so it should be brought out a little more using a warmer color than the rest of the portrait and using a lighter highlight than any other part of the face.

14 - If you are painting a portrait and you are using a background keep it cool using blues to create depth and if you are drawing a portrait, draw the background in a medium tone, the background shouldn't be darker or lighter than the portrait itself. Reserve your darkest darks and lightest lights for the actual portrait.

15 - Use the brightest colors in your centre of interest to draw attention to it, this holds true in any work of art

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