Like for many students, most of their day is spend at universities and I am not an exception. Therefore I want to share with you my works that I do there. And not only a clean and finished design, drawing, painting or whatever I create, but the whole process of creation – from beginning till the final stage.
Last week I started drawing a plaster head and today I drew this portrait of a man. It is just a first stage of the portrait because I barely placed facial parts and proportion of a head. I forgot my camera at home and I took these pictures with a phone. What can I say about the quality of a picture? Just awful, but I hope that you can understand something.
In classical drawing I can’t stand one things – coloring large spaces. It is so boring and quickly lose all interest in finishing the drawing. Just looking at the plaster head you can see that I was lazy I didn’t finish coloring – it should be precise and clean but mine technique of coloring is just a mess.
How do I start drawing portraits? I take a pencil and just draw all over the page shapes that I see. They don’t need to me precise. At first it may even look like a 8 years old child drew this sketch, but I need those lines just to know where eyes are, a nose and mouth is – I place basic shapes on paper. After that I find reference points, measure facial angles (for example, angle comparison of a forehead and a nose). And then I just draw what I see, but trying to keep in mind basic proportions.
Standard Facial Proportions:
- 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 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.
