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Sunday, 25 September 2011

Guideline to Sketch Face

By Denetor Ectellion


Everyone tries to draw better faces. Here some tips and guidelines are provided which can help you to make your images more realistic. Also you can be capable of providing more expressions. You can also be able to achieve accuracy in drawing.

At first, you must realize that face is portion of your head. In addition, face will count as quarter part of head. To sketch face, lots of artists at first sketch an oval shape and after that place faint mark for understanding the halfway portion. Some artists also measure this visually. Eyes must be placed at center of oval shape. And also this line should be placed at the center of the eyes of portrait. In addition, this must intersect the iris.

Now you need to draw the eyebrows. It can be sketched slightly above the space reserved for the eyes. You must keep this particular space reserved to occupy full eye as well as one part of the eyelid. In addition, the general size of eyebrows should be wider than the eyes. In stylish sketches, the eyebrows might be higher as well as shorter than the normal position.

Your next challenge should be to find out the middle point of top part of the eyebrows. This should generally be placed at the bottom portion of oval shape. At this halfway portion, the nostrils will be placed. Even you can omit these nostrils in stylish portraits. But you need to understand the position of nose to complete this drawing perfectly. A slight stroke of your pen can be enough. For drawing anime images, this can be indicated by simple flat lines. Also in the cartoons, you have surely watched that noses look like balloons with small swelling at sides.

Now you should know where the nose is. Now you should locate the mouth. The top portion of the mouth should be at the halfway point in between nostrils and chin. If you are trying to draw stylish portrait, you can draw both the upper lip and lower lip. It would be better for you to suggest the mouth by drawing spread out "V". Here the middle portion of lips with little curve at top should suggest upper left portion and the large rounder curve at bottom should define lower lip.

Now we will discuss about the positioning of the ear. This can be hided with the heir. For sketching a boy or man, it is necessary to place a line to show the position of ear. Some artists show at least one ear. Starting of ear should be from slightly below the lines of eyebrow. The ending will be placed below to tip of nostrils.

After doing all the things mentioned above, if you are sketching a real human being, you might be surprised by seeing the asymmetry present in human face. This can look dramatic too. You might find huge dissimilarity between the size of right and left ear. The same thing can happen in case of mouth and eye. However, these facts should not be highlighted unless you are sketching a grotesque.




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