Lesson 2: Fine Art Portraits - Ozanam House



Lesson 2: Fine Art PortraitsDrawing a side view of the face from a photographHi Everyone,I hope that last week’s lesson interested you and more importantly, I hope that you are all keeping well. This week I want us to progress to a more realistic style and to tackle face proportions from the side view of a face. As I mentioned in last week’s video tutorial, I personally don’t approach a drawing with all those facial guidelines. So here is my usual approach to drawing a portrait.I have included two other great pdfs on face proportions for beginners and advanced. I found these on the website pinterest. They are sophisticated drawings, but the advantage of these is that there are less steps involved and they again, detail a lot of guidelines within the face to help you draw, which may suit many of you.For my tutorial here, I suggest you look at my guidelines and at each stage also look at the photo. Give it a go. There is no pressure, so just have fun, experiment and try! You can do a much more sketchy version of this. I think the important thing is to have some success drawing a face at an angle and to give shading a go.I’ll edit the video tutorial to accompany this in the coming days and Kim will text you next week with the details on how to access this video.The third lesson will be a quick sketch of a child, so we’ll be looking at a child’s face proportions.Many Thanks,2Liz72180603Part One:Simple proportion guides and the basic line drawing of the portrait4Materials:Use whatever you have to hand. A thin sheet of paper and a 2H and HB would do just ?ne. A pencil sharpener and a soft rubber.If you have access to more art materials then like me, you could use a sheet of drawing (cartridge) paper. 2H, 2B & 6B pencils, or a different numbered, light, medium and dark toned pencils. I used a black ?ne-liner pen too. A black colouring pencil could work too. I used a soft rubber, but a putty rubber would come in useful too.5I've begun my drawing, by roughly measuring the width and length and establishing the angles with my pencil. You can use a grid to mark out your drawing or just measure like I have.You can always modify these first lines later if they aren't exact. The important thing is to get going, to try and a rough outline is a start at least.6Similar to the last lesson, I've put lines into the face to suggest where I think the facial features should sit.The challenge with this drawing is that the face is not facing straight on, it's at an angle. Therefore the facial features will be at an angle too.I'm referencing my image from a pad. There are advantages and disadvantages to this. The advantage is that you can zoom in on details. One of the disadvantages is that you can't as easily grid the image on the pad.7You could add in more facial guidelines, as we did in the last lesson. I’ve managed to get a good enough idea of where the features are without too many lines. I roughly measured the angle of the mouth, the eyebrows, eyes and nose.Start to put in more detail. I've begun with the eyebrows. Trying to fully draw in their outline8I'm now drawing in more eye detail. The eyelids and the irises. Try to get the right angles and curves on the eyeslids. Aim for some symmetry with the irises.You want you eyes to appear like they are looking in the same direction. I've begun to draw theoutline of shaded areas of the face, such as on9the left cheekbone.533400-3808853Start to shape up the nose by checking the angles and drawing them in. A circle at the bottom of the nose helps to establish, its sense of roundness and three dimensionality4876800-4051438Shape up the lips. Try to measure the width of the mouth and add in a little shape for thechin.10Part Two:First layer of face shading116858001138404961375113840The shade on the left cheekbone, on the left of the nose and the back of the neck, is not one flat tone. You can start with a flat tone, then add in darker areas and blend dark into light, by putting less pressure on your pencil.Avoid smudging. It’s also time to start shading the eyes.Begin to shade. I take my time building up shade and tone. Start with a lighter pencil, such as a 2H. You can vary the tone of your pencil by putting more or less pressure on your pencil. If you've a HB, B or 2B, you could introduce itinstead to make the heavier lines.12This image of the eyes is of the finished version. The next page returns to the step by step process. I wanted to make a few notes on the eyes here at the stage.Eyes: there's usually a white area in the iris. This is the light bouncing off the eye. The area of light is roughly at the same location in each eye. The sclera, or the whites of the eyes, which surround the iris are not 100% white all over. Sometimes they are a little bloodshot or yellow and they always have shade in them, because they are rounded. The shade lies around the edges and there is particularly a lot of shadeunder the top eyelid.13Start shading in the eyebrows, try to put in lines for eyebrow hair, but only where eyebrow hairs look obvious.Darken and lengthen the eyelashes. Shade in the eyelids.14I'm adding in a heavier tone of line around the hairlineI'm going heavier now on the cheekbone shading. If you were doing a quick sketch, you might be bolder and put down a darker shade sooner, but I'm takingmy time here.15521925245596I'm putting in heavier shading under the jawline and on the side of the nose.493890599662Keeping making efforts to subtly blend dark into light or light into dark. Using a couple of differentpencils can help.16Part 3:Shading shoulder and beginning hair.17You could easily stop work on the face here. It looks finished. I did a bit more work, but just work to your level. Do what you can. If you give the shading of the face and hair a bit of a go, then you’ve done plenty.I’ve begun blocking off some of the hair and then jumped to shading the shoulder18Build up the shade of the shoulder. It’s quite dark on the leftI’ve added in some freckles on the shoulder19I’m using the rubber here to make some of the freckles more subtle. Lightly dabbing the rubber, can help you to blend a little and can make an area more subtle, rather than erasing it completely.This image is to show you how often I go back to areas to enhance them.Another note on freckles: They are different sizes, colours and shapes, so try to observe and copy what yousee, rather than assuming they are uniform.20Part 4:Hair and ?nishing touches with black pen21I’m roughly blocking out general shapes within the hair and blocking in the light and dark areas.You can add in a few curvy lines to indicate the ?ow of the hair.22I’m gradually adding in more detail to the hair; more tone and more lines.The glossiness of the hair is beginning to emerge. You can begin to see more clearly where to light is bouncing off the hair23I often like to introduce black into a drawing. You could use a black pencil, or felt-tip pen. No biros. If you don’t have one, don’t worry, just stick to drawing pencilsI’m using what’s known as an artists ?ne-line pen or ?ne-liner. I’ve mainly used it to darkenthe eyebrows, eyelashes, pupils and some of24the hairline too.I’m adding in the pen now to the hair to emphasise the darkest areas. You can blend back into the pen with a dark pencil.The hair and the face are ?nished. On the next page you will see I’ve shaded her top and put ?nishing touches on the shoulderand the top of the hair.251528125026That’s this week’s tutorial ?nished. I hope you are enjoying it and learning some tips along the way. Let us know what you think and if there’s anyway we can improve on the lessons or support your art activities,Take Care, Liz27 ................
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