Portrait Painting Lesson – 2 Tips For Painting Lips
Tip One: Place The Lips in their Right Place.
Convincing lips are always in a believable location on the head. (In art, “Talking through your hat”, must remain only a colorful figure of speech.) You can make this satisfactory placement with the aid of some easily determined guideposts of the face: the eyes and the nose. If the eyes, nose and lips are all mutually supportive, the desired likeness will likely follow.
First, in the size you want, roughly indicate the basic shape of the head, yours, if you are working in front of a mirror. Is it an egg shape? A basketball? Peanut? What? Second, indicate the position of the eyes with simply two small circles, whose sizes are roughly proportional relative to the head and to the distance between those two eyes. Are those eyes approximately halfway between the base of the chin and the top of the forehead, as is typical? If not, move them up or down as needed. Third, indicate a rough nose. Is the top just below a line between the two eyes? Where does the bottom of that nose end? One third (approximately) down from the eyes to the chin? If not, make the small adjustment. Drawing a small box shape, indicate how wide the nose is, using the eye-to-eye distance as a yardstick. Remember, all these are approximations; you’re not a land surveyor and it’s important to just get started, started with just your best estimations.
How does all this look, so far? If you are working from a photograph, turn both that and your sketch upside down and compare them, judge it all again. Make any needed adjustments. Now that you have your main benchmarks in place, now that your eyes and nose are indicated roughly, what next? The next thing to do is to establish a very few further guidelines from these eyes and that nose. That is, the next step is to establish vertical reference lines, dropping them straight down from the eyes and the nose. After determining what is straight up and down, very lightly sketch in a vertical line from the inside point of the right eye. Then do the same from the inside point of the left eye. Next, do two vertical lines from the OUTSIDE of the eyes, making now four vertical lines. Using these four lines as well as the location of the bottom of the nose, estimate where the ends of the mouth lie, left and right. Place a faint dot at each and draw a faint line between those two dots.
Pencil Portrait Tutorial by George Max
About the Artist
George Max is a Geologist, Fine Artist and Professional Translator from central Guatemala in Middle America. He was born in 1968 in a small town called of Cobán, 200 km north of Guatemala City. He traveled to the USA (Colorado State) in 1989 to study English under a one year scholarship program. He started getting acquainted with art since his first year in College in 1988. As an autodidact, he started his labor of art in 1992 making oil paintings on canvas. Nevertheless, it was until late 2004 when he began to produce formal artwork (oil paintings mainly) for exhibition and sale to date.
Artwork Website: http://www.georgemax.co.nr/
Translation Website: http://www.deensp.com/
Step by Step Portrait Drawing Lesson in Graphite
About David Te
Hi, my name is David Te. I began thinking about art seriously when I was 18 after seeing my sister Faith, who is also an artist, draw a portrait of a person. It immediately inspired me to draw portraits as well.
I have had no formal art schooling at all so I learned entirely by reading art tutorials and forums and also by myself.
I work mainly in graphite and charcoal pencils but since we bought some tubes of oil paints, I have been learning to paint in oils too. I also wish to work in pastels and colored pencils in the future.
How to Draw Rihanna Step by Step – Portrait Drawing Tutorial
Learn to Draw Rihanna – Free Step by Step Video Demonstration
The following is a step by step 12 part realistic portrait drawing tutorial created by Artist Andrew Fisher. This is a video lesson that I found on YouTube. It is a lesson on how to draw Rihanna using pencil.
Step 1 – Anatomy and Math
Andrew needs to enlarge the photo while keeping the proportions accurate. He does this by first measuring the photo and then multiplying each dimension by 1.75. He calculates the dimensions and draws out the shape of the head, finds the center of the face by drawing a horizontal and vertical line and sketches in the nose…
Watercolor Portrait Demonstration
About Sandrine Pelissier
I grew up in France but have been living in Canada for the last 12 years, I am currently located in North Vancouver and work from a studio on Pemberton Avenue.
Watercolor is my medium of choice because of the unique way it allows me to render light. The transparency of this medium can make it look like the painting is lit from behind and the light is shining through the paper In my portraits, I like to tell stories about the people around me. I am very interested in childhood fantasy or fairy tales (I wish it would snow Flowers, Hair Balloon, Georgia, the Spanish dress and the Eclectus Parrot). I also like to induce a dialogue with the viewer in some paintings dealing more with introspection and mood (Mixed, In the studio).
Those portraits are not about likeness or knowing the people that are being painted, as I see my models as actors in a movie, they are the faces that will allow me to tell a story or to show emotions. Those faces are a source of endless fascination and I find the subtlety that can be achieved with watercolor well suited to the complexity of the human face.
My technique involves the accumulation of many transparent layers of watercolor. Then I like to incorporate mixed media in the background, work sometimes with some contouring. I also sometimes like to add some drawing on top of the painting or some graphic elements…
Step by Step Soft Pastel Demo
About Faith
Graphite Pencil, Charcoal Pencil and Pastels Artist
Hello! My name is Faith Te. When I was 16, a great desire to capture nature and the people around me started my passion for drawing. I began to look at drawing not just as a hobby but something which I wanted to do all my life.
I practiced every day and for many hours since. I taught myself to draw by experimenting with different techniques and materials and through helpful tips and advice from other artists.
Initially, charcoal and graphite pencils were the only mediums I used. When I began working in color, I used pastels, and more recently, oils. My main subjects are portraits but I also enjoy doing many other subjects including still life, landscapes and flowers, especially orchids.
Charcoal Portrait Drawing Tutorial
About Brian MacNeil
Brian MacNeil is an artist of great talent and imagination and is one of the new generation of Realist painters that are the new avant-garde in the art world. Brian studied at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence, from 2004 to 2008 and showed himself to be an extremely gifted student, understanding, as though instinctively, what his instructors were teaching…
Learn more about Brian and view of his work by visiting his Websites:
Watercolor Portrait Painting Tutorial
About Sandrine Pelissier
I grew up in France but have been living in Canada for the last 12 years, I am currently located in North Vancouver and work from a studio on Pemberton Avenue.
Watercolor is my medium of choice because of the unique way it allows me to render light. The transparency of this medium can make it look like the painting is lit from behind and the light is shining through the paper In my portraits, I like to tell stories about the people around me. I am very interested in childhood fantasy or fairy tales (I wish it would snow Flowers, Hair Balloon, Georgia, the Spanish dress and the Eclectus Parrot). I also like to induce a dialogue with the viewer in some paintings dealing more with introspection and mood (Mixed, In the studio).
Those portraits are not about likeness or knowing the people that are being painted, as I see my models as actors in a movie, they are the faces that will allow me to tell a story or to show emotions. Those faces are a source of endless fascination and I find the subtlety that can be achieved with watercolor well suited to the complexity of the human face.
My technique involves the accumulation of many transparent layers of watercolor. Then I like to incorporate mixed media in the background, work sometimes with some contouring. I also sometimes like to add some drawing on top of the painting or some graphic elements…
Portrait Painting Demo in Oil
About The Artist
Chris Saper has painted commissioned portraits for fifteen years, following a seventeen-year career as a health care executive in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to her painting schedule, she is an active portrait instructor, teaching both portrait painting and business skills. Chris is the author of Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color and Light
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Egg Tempera Painting Demonstration
About Dennis Harper
In addition to working as an artist, Dennis Harper is Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. Formerly Curator of Exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art, Harper served as curatorial advisor for Georgia for the National Museum of Women in the Arts From the States exhibition in 2003 and was a founding board member and past vice president of ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art. Recent curatorial projects include the exhibitions As Above, So Below: Recent Works by Scherer & Ouporov; Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum; and A Sinner’s Progress: The Artists Books of David Sandlin, and essays for Coming Home: American Paintings 1930–1950 from the Schoen Collection. A native of Alabama, Harper has held previous positions at Wildenstein and Co., New York, and the Visual Arts Gallery of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Harper’s own art has been exhibited across the United States and in Europe, and discussed or reproduced in American Artist, Art New England, Art Papers, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, New American Paintings, New York Times, Oxford American, and Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications. Harper has taught studio classes at the University of Georgia on the Athens campus and in Cortona, Italy, and led workshops on egg tempera painting, fresco, and gilding.
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