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Learn How To Draw Noses

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May 012013

One of the most difficult part of the face that most beginners have a hard time doing is how to draw noses. I remember when I was just a little boy I already had the passion to draw. Drawing the nose in pencil is one of the most challenging part of the face that I found difficult while I was just beginning to learn how to draw the human face. Below you will find a nice video created by thevirtualinstructor to help you learn more on how to draw noses effectively.

Learning it from the beginning was not easy for me and it was always a trial and error. I never gave up but kept on practicing it until I finally was able to draw the nose perfectly. I advise you to do the same! Practice is the key that will lead you to draw a nose perfectly.

The nose is designed naturally to be in the center of the face with a protruding bridge and two holes that allow the air to pass through in and out of our body. It has a bone with cartilage that forms the bridge and muscles on both sides that lead to another cartilage which forms the nostrils. It is very important to know the anatomical structure of the nose to use it as a guide to be able to draw it realistically.

Step By Step Drawing Of The Nose

1) To draw the nose from the front identify the center of the face. From the center make a horizontal line from the top and the bottom tips of the ears and a vertical line across it.

2) Start sketching the nose bridge from the center of the face using the vertical and horizontal lines as your guide.

3) To simplify it roughly sketch a narrow rectangle which represents the nose bridge.

4) Then draw 2 smaller circles to represent the nostrils and a slightly bigger circle in between the two nostrils.

5) Find out where the light source is and start rendering the shadows with darker tones and the highlights with lighter tones.

6) Continue rendering the highlights and shadows toward the lower part of the nose and the two circles which represent the nostrils.

7) Add more darker shades under the nostrils. This part will be the darkest among rest since the nostrils have holes which have darker shades.

8) Fine tune the renderings and make sure you add the highlights along the nose bridge, the tip of the nose and the walls of the nostrils.

9) Finally you’re done! Practice this method often until you reach the point where you can draw the nose easily.

10) To draw the nose from the side just pay attention to the
perspective of the face and start drawing it using the same
procedure as I instructed above.

Below is an amazing video which I encourage you to watch carefully to get some new ideas on your journey to learn how to draw noses.

Pay attention to each detail and follow each step and apply them as you practice. Enjoy drawing the nose!

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How To Draw Eyelashes Step By Step

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Feb 222013

This amazing eye drawing was created by Gabrielle. You can see her work at her Facebook Page Artwork By Gabrielle and Portfolio Website

One of the most important part in drawing the human face is the eye and to be more specific it is necessary that we know the step by step process on how to draw eyelashes on an eye. If you are having difficulty drawing it this article is a must read. Whether you are drawing it using a pencil or a computer using softwares like illustrator, photoshop or gimp it is a great advantage if you knew how to do it correctly. Observe this eye drawing by Gabrielle on the right. A perfect example of how to render eyelashes beautifully.

Last night I stayed up late and made some few pencil sketches to show you from start to finish how to draw eyelashes specifically on eyelids. These drawings I did below will help you compare to what have you done so far during your learning process in drawing portraits. I’ve also included below an excellent tutorial video by Brian Sandoval teaching you how to do it effectively in a very detailed and simple way.

I suggest that you bring with you a pencil, a sketch pad and a notebook so that you can follow and practice this tutorial as you read this post. My advise is for you to do this frequently to get effective results. Remember also that the 3 most important part in creating a beautiful painting and it is also true in drawing are; know the anatomy, perspective and add contrast.

(Step 1) Study the anatomy of the eye. Observe the bones and muscles around it and apply the perspective of the eye form. Once you have gathered all these start doing the sketch with simple outlines.

(Step 2) In this drawing I’m using a regular pencil rendering in cross hatch style. Continue drawing by adding some more pencil strokes . Make the sketches more define to slowly form the eye. The eyelashes should be drawn a little longer to show the gracefulness of a female eye.

(Step 3) Pay attention to where the light is coming from then you will know where the shadow falls. Once you identify where it is, continue rendering in pencil until you come to the point where the dark and light shadows are balance. Don’t forget to leave a few white dots for the reflection of the pupil.

Finally you are done! Keep on practicing this and you will learn how to draw eyelashes correctly. Have fun!

Video created by Brian Sandoval

How To Draw Lips Step By Step

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Feb 162013

In drawing the human face one of the most important facial feature to know is how to draw lips. When I was just starting out it took me awhile to learn how to draw it. I have gathered below the simplest way on how to draw lips step by step with pencil. Scroll down and you will also see an excellent video with instructions on how to draw lips.

In this tutorial I will show you how to draw a close lips. Hopefully in the future I will prepare some posts on how to draw the mouth that is open or smiling with teeth, lips for kids and lipstick kiss. As you begin learning this drawing technique, you will find that to draw the lips is very easy.

Step By Step Instructions:

1) Sketch the upper and lower lips by becoming aware of its right and left side corners and make a straight line connecting these two corners.

2) To keep it simple and easy to draw the lips you have to identify the shapes that form the upper and lower lips. These shapes will serve as your guide to help you draw the lips easily.

3) In the upper lip you can see that it is compose of three shapes. To demonstrate this, draw one oblong on the right part and one oblong on the left part plus a circle in between these two oblongs. Do this by sketching them very light.

4) Usually the lower lip is thicker than the upper lip. To do this draw two oblongs and make sure that they are a little bit bigger than the forms on the upper lip. Now start drawing one oblong on the right side and one oblong on the left side.

5) When you are done sketching these shapes use them as your guide to start drawing the outlines of the lips using a dark lead pencil.

6) Find out the source of light so that you will know where the shadows fall. Let’s say the light comes from above so the shadows should fall under the upper lip and under the lower lip. Begin applying your shadings using a dark lead pencil until you are finished.

You may bookmark this page so that you can go back again and make this as your reference guide on how to draw lips.

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How To Draw Eyes Step By Step

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Dec 292012

One of the most difficult part to draw the face is how to draw eyes step by step. When I was just learning how to draw people drawing the eyes is the most challenging for me. For those of you who are just beginning to learn how to draw this post will be helpful for you. If you don’t have the courage to draw or not sure if you have the talent, I encourage you to read my previous post here which will help you discover your artist within.

Below after this image are my simple step by step procedures on how to draw the eyes. I created rough sketches of this tutorial to show you very quickly simple tricks on how to do this. You will also find as you scroll down a detailed tutorial video which you can follow to render this correctly. I want you to pay more attention on the reflection of the eyes. I always add this white dot in the pupil when I draw the eyes because this adds life and realistic effect to it. Check out this beautiful work by Esteljf on DiviantArt. Look at the way she beautifully draw the eyes. Art by Esteljf on DiviantArt http://esteljf.deviantart.com

Beautifully rendered pencil art of a face. Observe the way the eyes was drawn. Check out this beautiful pencil art, Half of you_Christina Aguilera by Josi Fabri, Esteljf on DiviantArt

This is the final pencil art. Check below the step by step drawings

I created this simple step by step procedure below on how to draw eyes to help you start creating it easily. Observe how I did it and learn from it.

I also found another great artist that teaches how to draw the eyes beautifully. He wrote an e-book which you can get it right away online. Click Here!

I also encourage you to write your comments and questions below if there is something that you want to learn or expound more about this topic. Let’s help each other learn how to draw!

How To Draw Eyes

1) The most important thing to consider learning before you even attempt to draw the eyes is to know the anatomy of the eyes. Learning the structure of the muscles around the eyes and the bones that hold it will help you draw the eyes correctly.

2) Start sketching the eyes by following its anatomical structure outlining in pencil the shape of the eyes, pupil, eyelashes and eyebrows.

3) The shapes and forms learned from the anatomy will help us know how the light and shadows fall around the eyes. This is the technique to draw the eyes that will look natural and realistic.

4) Find out where is your light source so you can render the shadows around the eyes correctly. Start rendering it using pencil and be aware of its light source so you can easily spot where the shadows will be.

5) The final and most important part to render which will make the eyes look real is to add the highlight and reflection within it. Usually it is a tiny white dot that is rendered in the pupil.

Observe and follow how I draw the eyes step by step and if you do it correctly you will find yourself rendering it very easy. Have you ever tried drawing the eyes or are you still learning on how to do it correctly?

I will be happy to hear your comments by clicking the comment link on the upper right side corner of this post or start writing it below. I wish you the best in learning how to draw eyes step by step!

Base on the anatomy draw the eyes using a pencil

how to draw eyes step by step with pencil

Start rendering it by applying the light and shadows

how to draw eyes step by step for beginners

Continue rendering by being conscious on the light source

Leave a white dot inside the pupil for the reflection

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Using Colors In Drawings By Pencil

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Sep 112011

One of the greatest thing that gives happiness in life is the expression of yourself through painting. Imagine yourself creating a beautiful portrait of your friend or finding yourself drawing and painting a landscape very spontaneously. You have seen drawings by pencil created by great masters and you wish that you painted like them. However, not all these can’t be achieved if we don’t know how to do it correctly by means of knowing the relationship of values and color.

You probably did a few strokes already in your pencil portrait project or perhaps you are just beginning to learn the first steps. Whatever stage you are in, it is very important to know the process of drawing by means of creating lines and adding value which is also referred to as “tone” and understanding how value translate to colors which you will experience mostly in drawing and painting.

When you start rendering the portrait, let the artist within you do its creative work by knowing first how to do the basic skills in whatever you are drawing. As you progress you will begin to know the importance of value by means of rendering light and shadows. Through this, you will eventually begin to identify colors to your portrait drawings. The best way to keep in mind is to always see value as colors.

You will know this once you have learned the relationship of light and shadows from light to dark tones that is mostly use in drawing. This will be an effective guide for those who want to succeed in drawing and adding colors usually is experience in painting. This is the way to put colors into your drawings.

Five Steps To Find Colors In Value

1) Sketch your subject matter which is the portrait. Do all the line drawings of each part of the face using a dark lead pencil.

2) Identify where the light source is coming from. You can have it coming from the upper right side corner or left side corner of the paper. This light source is very important because through it your subject will be formed by means of shades, which is value, and from value to colors.

3) Using a pencil draw the shades and shadows of each facial parts of the face from the lightest to the darkest tone depending on how the light distributes them.

4) Each shades from dark to light, which is called value, signifies a particular color tone. From the darkest shades to the medium to the lightest will translate a color tone. Example: yellow will fall in the lightest shade, orange will be in the medium shade and brown will fall to the darkest shade.

5) Dark shades will signify a darker color value like for example the dark shade of a hair would be the color of a dark brown hair. Light blue eyes would be in the medium dark shade tonal value. A light shade tone would be the color of a fair complexion of a facial skin tones.

The best way to render colors is the ability to see colors as different shades of value. You will know this once you become familiar with the relationship of light and shadows in drawing. This is the effective way to succeed in drawing and applying the colors in painting.

Using Photos To Draw Portraits In Pencil

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Jul 252011

Don’t you want to see yourself drawing an excellent realistic portrait of your friend? Do you want to hear everyone behind your back saying “Wow, what an amazing work!”? We are constantly learning and searching for a perfect way to achieve the best results we want in drawing portraits. In addition, one of the best ways in achieving an excellent technique is creating it from photos to portraits.

When I was just starting out to do portraits, I always had a problem working on the sketch. Sometimes the result shows that the likeness is not the same like the model. The model that you are working on should be still and not moving so that you can grasp exactly the proportion and outlines of the face.

Using a photograph to draw a beautiful portrait is the surest way to avoid flaws in achieving the likeness of the person’s face you are working on. Using a photograph will create an exact proportion of the different facial parts of the face. You will not worry about drawing the lips incorrectly or doing the eyes slightly further than the alignment to the lips. In other words, you will get the exact proportion of the face you are working on.

All these become easy because you can control the way you draw the face from a photograph. A photo does not move and it does not distract your eyes while you are drawing. Unlike in the live model portraiture most of the time you cannot control the occasional movements of the model’s face.

The first step you have to do to render a pencil portrait is to take a digital photograph of the face of the person who asked you to make a portrait art. Then print the digital file to the size you want the portrait to be. If you do not have a digital file of the photograph, the best techniques is by scanning the photograph in paper and print it to the size of the final art portrait that you are going to create. Then trace with a pencil the printed enlarged image of the face using a light box. Using this technique will prevent you from making a portrait that does not look like the model.

Once you sketched the overall facial parts of the face, you are now ready to render the final drawing using either a mechanical pencil or a B or 2 B or HB lead pencil, or you can even use a regular pencil and make sure they are sharpened. Draw this portrait with pencil on illustration board or a sketched pad with smooth finish surface. Pencil portrait do an excellent result on smooth surface that shows a crisp and clean finish art.

How To Use A Photograph To Create A Pencil Portrait:

1) Take a digital photograph of the model that asked you to make a portrait or get a regular photograph on photo paper.

2) If you do not have a digital file of the face, scan the regular photograph in paper.

3) Print the digital file photo or the scanned one to the size you want for the portrait.

4) Work with a clear and big photograph. Then trace the outline of the whole facial parts of the face on a clean smooth paper surface.

5) Render with pencil the light and shadow of the different parts of the face using crosshatch or smooth pencil strokes.

6) Review what you have done and see if you have to add more shades or check anything that you have to fix. Finally, you are finish and ready to show it!

There are many advantages in using photographs as references to do portraits. Take that reference and you will be able to finish in a short amount of time that way you will avoid the problems you encounter with a live model.

You can also come back anytime without rushing to continue working on it where as to do it with a live model you will be forced to finish it fast during your session to avoid the constant facial movements. With a photograph, you can get the best likeness and work from there. Rendering portrait from photograph is really one of the best techniques.

Drawing Of Pencil Can Be Learned

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May 262011

Learning to draw is quite a challenge for you especially if you have not even tried drawing a face out of pencil. But the process is just as easy like a baby just beginning to learn to walk. Drawing deals mostly with the way you see things and not only just that but to see objects the way an artist sees them. It can be learned and possess as your ability just like an artist does.

You would not even try to learn how to draw because you already put a big barrier in your mind that says “I can’t draw!”. Having said this makes you think it’s impossible to try it. But with the firm desire and knowledge of the right way to draw will put you to the first steps to successful drawing.

By learning the right way of seing things just like an artist does will be the best way to start learning it. Following after this is the importance of practicing the skill. You can begin learning by rendering a simple doodle which will bring you to a higher level of a more sophisticated renderings like portraits to draw,

Artists somewhat see things differently. The question is, “how do they see things?” Their keen ability to observe what they draw plus their natural strength of their mind by using the right side of the brain which is the artistic part of us are essential for the ability of an artistic vision.

They have the strong awareness of what they are doing and somewhat lost the attention with time which they feel joyful and relaxed while drawing. We see them stress free and seem very easy for them to choose any art materials to use pencil for drawing objects in a spontaneous manner.

All these creative bliss are enjoyed in the present moment as they enter into a new dimension where there is no future and past only the joy of creating in the present, the timeless moment, the state of being.

You will probably say that all of these qualities mentioned above are for those people with natural creative talent. Yes it is true but the the basic drawing skills can be achieved by anyone who will desire to learn the way the artist sees and think. We all have the gift within us. You have it. We are all born us creative human beings. It is just a matter of digging it and letting it out.

Six Steps To Learn The Skills In Drawing:

1) Allow your mind to shift to the right side of your brain where the natural creative energy flows and where your intellectual reasons and the sense of the future and past are not present.

2) Detach yourself from anything external even your feelings but only be aware of the present by knowing that you are bound to start your purpose of making your first stroke of pencil in drawing.

3) As you enter into this realm of timeless moment your awareness of what you are doing becomes strong. You will find yourself in the state of being. You become aware of your hand holding the pencil moving around touching the paper and seing the first strokes of lines forming your the masterpiece of what you want to draw.

4) Put yourself in the state where nothing exist but only your enjoyment and blissful feeling of creating. This is were the right side of your brain is actively moving.

5) Stay in your stress free mode by not caring about anything only to fulfill your creative purpose to finish your sketches in drawing.

6) Practice these steps above in your learning process to improve your drawing skills in the artistic field of portraits in pencil, flower sketching, landscape renderings, etc.

You just did what you can’t do before. You’ve learned how to draw! Let it grow by means of continuous practice. Congratulations! You made it!

Learning To Draw Portraits Is Easy

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May 122011

You have the passion to draw but when you grab the pencil to start the first stroke you found that you can hardly draw a straight line. This artistic inspiration is so strong in you that you can’t stop your great desire to create portraits to draw for your family or friends.

But all this seem isn’t happening the way you want it to be. Not because there is no time to do it but most of all because of your belief that it is impossible for you to draw like an artist. However, you keep on wishing that you can draw just like a master artist does. Procrastination and the belief that you can’t do it hinder your progress.

The truth is drawing can be learned and most especially you can show its beauty by creating portrait with pencil. We always tend to feel intimidated when we meet someone who is a professional artist thinking that we can’t be like him who can draw like a master.

All of us were born with different kinds of talents. Some are great in singing, dancing or playing the guitar but we tend to refuse to accept that we can also learn their abilities.

Let It Out

Let us test ourselves. If you appreciate the beauty of a blooming red rose or enjoy the beautiful sunset on seashore that shows that you have the artistic ability within you.

The first thing that you have to do to let it out is to have the “desire to learn”. To learn how to draw is really a matter of training your eyes perfectly and more than by just looking with your eyes. It can be done and it can be learned.

When I was a child my parents saw me growing with artistic ability. I was five years old then when I used to doodle a lot. This lead me to create my first drawing of an apple right from our dining room table. Then I drew a lion while I was watching it on TV. They were so amazed on my early age talent!

You Can Do It

You are probably going to tell me, “Hey you have an inborn artistic talent and I don’t!” I know that’s the truth but you have to know that the driving force of all this is my early age “desire to learn” while I was growing up. Always remember that you have that “artist within you”. Let it out and grow by your desire to learn!

I want to share with you someone that will give you an inspiration to learn to draw. He is just an ordinary person who struggled in the art of drawing. What makes him unique from the rest of all is his strong determination to learn with patience the step-by-step techniques of drawing that brought him to master the art of realistic portraits with pencil.

Discover him in person through his unique style on how to create drawings in pencil from photos to portraits. Learn his step-by-step tutorials by viewing it here. You will be amazed on how easy for you to learn it! Let the artist within you be exposed. You can do it!

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