Monday, March 9, 2009

Rules of Proportion for Drawing the Face and hints and tips.

Your face is five eyes wide. You have the space of an eye between your two eyes (on the bridge of your nose) and the space of an eye on each side of your real eyes.

The eyes are halfway between the top of the head and the chin.
The bottom of the nose is halfway between the eyes and the chin.
The mouth is halfway between the nose and the chin.
The corners of the mouth line up with the centers of the eyes.
The corner of your nose is where the inner edge of your eye is.
The top of the ears line up above the eyes, on the eyebrows.
The bottom of the ears line up with the bottom of the nose (or with the lips).

You don’t have defined lines in your features. Watch heavy lines around eyes. Draw yourself without makeup. Do a contour line around the eyelashes. Draw the values in your nose instead of just the nostrils. Don’t draw the opening, just draw the value.

No one in this class wears heavy lip liner. Make your lines lighter and really think of that calligraphic line. Emphasize value and shadows instead of features. Otherwise the result is cartoonish.

Bring your item or items from home that you'd like to include in your drawing for Wednesday!

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