I notice that the width is slightly narrower than the height, and indicate this on my drawing. I begin to map out the general shape of the head.
I draw with light, straight lines so that they are easy to erase and edit. There aren't many truly straight lines when drawing something organic like a person!
Everywhere you look, you get some degree of curvature. However, creating the angles of the head with straight lines as opposed to curved ones will result in a more accurate drawing later on. To help yourself visualize straight lines, extend your pencil in front of you to see the angles of the head more clearly. I begin to refine the contour of the head by breaking up the angles into smaller, more specific segments.
Something I want to emphasize in this portrait drawing tutorial is to look for lines that flow into one another. For example: the hairline flows right into the line of the shadow being cast onto the neck.
When connected, these lines create a beautiful S-curve. The more elements you can relate to each other on the face such as these two lines , the more accurate and organic-looking your block-in will be. As you begin drawing the contour of the profile, imagine vertical axis lines from which you can measure certain points on the face.
For example: I can imagine a vertical line originating at the front of the model's chin. This helps me to see how far the lips, nose, and forehead extend to the right of the line.
I can also imagine a straight vertical line at the tip of the nose. This clearly shows me that the forehead almost reaches the line, but not quite. The nose extends to the right ever so slightly more than the forehead. Now I know where to draw the forehead in relation to the nose!
You can create these imaginary axis lines anywhere, and use them in any way that they are helpful to you. Continuing the block-in for this portrait drawing tutorial, I now approximately place the ear and the features of the face. Don't miss these step by step tutorials on drawing the features of the face:.
How did I place the ear? Since I have already found the approximate location of the nose, I imagine a horizontal line through the tip of nose, and look to see how far above this line to place the ear. I continue blocking in the large shapes of the face. During this part of the block-in, I greatly rely on gestures, or rhythms, to help me place and connect all the elements of my drawing. Gestures are curved lines that flow from one element of a picture to another, creating a kind of underlying structure that connects all the elements in the image.
There is a lesson on using gestures to add movement as well as accuracy to a drawing in my Realistic Drawing course! To refine the contour of the face, I again rely on the axis lines I used earlier. Remember the vertical line that I imagined at the tip of the nose? Look at the shapes created between that line and the contour of the face. These are called negative shapes or negative space. So, naturally, the "positive" shape would be the shape of the actual subject the face. Negative shapes are extremely useful in refining the contour of the face!
How to use negative shapes: As you draw, try to forget that you are drawing a face. Forget that you are drawing a forehead, a nose, lips and a chin. Instead, look at the negative spaces as abstract shapes, and draw them as such! This slight change in perspective may not seem like much, but it often results in a more accurate drawing. I use straight lines to block in the profile of the face, just as I did when I was blocking in the large angles of the head.
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