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    Learn How to Draw Faces and Portraits For the Absolute Beginner
    Learn How to Draw Faces and Portraits For the Absolute Beginner
    Learn How to Draw Faces and Portraits For the Absolute Beginner
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    Learn How to Draw Faces and Portraits For the Absolute Beginner

    By John Davidson and Adrian Sanqui

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    Learn to Draw - Faces and Portraits - For the Absolute Beginner

    TABLE OF CONTENTS
    Introduction: Drawing Tools
    Basic Head Layout
    Facial Features
    Eyes
    Nose
    Mouth
    Measuring Via Eye Size
    Front view
    Quarter view
    Side view/Profile

    Basic head layout
    There are few characteristics of a head that is relative to almost everyone, this similarity in measurements will be your guide if you are to construct a face when drawing a portrait.
    The eyes are positioned below, above or right at the center of the head’s perfect-center level. It is usually aligned with the upper tip of the ear.
    The head’s space above and below the eyes’ location are equal.
    The nose wings are usually aligned with the tear ducts, and its nose ball is aligned with the ear lobes (this similarity changes depending on the person’s age as the ears grow bigger).
    Both tips of the mouth are nearly aligned with the center of both eyes.

    Although you will surely encounter a person that has a little difference on these measurements, it would be easier for you to identify his or her unique proportion value if you have the knowledge about what is most usual.

    The familiarity to different angles of the head is essential when drawing faces.

    Head shapes differ in every angle. The position of each facial feature gradually changes as the head makes a quarter turn. And as it turns further on one side, their sizes slightly change and the features reveal their unseen angles, thus, totally changing their shape.

    A head facing in a perfect front view would have two equal sides most of the time, while a head in a quarter angle view shows the outline of the nose bridge which cannot be portrayed perfectly when in front view. The lips would reveal its thickness as it loses the exposure of its further tip. And the further ear and eye will lose its exposure as the head turns further on the side.

    These natural gradual adjustments happen when the head moves horizontally.

    Unlike horizontal movements, when a head moves in a diagonal direction it changes the diagonal thickness of the head dynamically, thus, the facial features follow.
    Each facial feature comes closer together as the head leans further. The nostrils become totally exposed as the nose ball clearly establish its distance from the plane (face surface).

    The thickness of the lower lip can be easily conveyed as it overlaps the upper lip, and the eye shapes would appear flat.
    When the head moves downwards, the nose (depending on its height) would overlap the lips, and the eyebrows (depending on its thickness) would slightly overlap the eyes. The height of the neck would be hidden as the top of the head becomes clearly conveyed, totally changing or rather hiding the face’s horizontal height.

    The facial ridges of males are more defined and prominent compared to females, especially the nose bridge, Brow Bridge and the jaw line.

    But there are few cases in which the shape of a man’s profile looks more feminine than usual or vice-versa. In this case, you have to rely on the facial features he or she have to clearly portray his or her gender, such as thick eyebrows or any facial hairs for men or pouty, glossy lips and long eyelashes for women.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJD-Biz Corp Publishing
    Release dateFeb 16, 2014
    ISBN9781310228117
    Learn How to Draw Faces and Portraits For the Absolute Beginner
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    John Davidson

    My coauthor John Davidson was a high school teacher for 25 years and volunteered for the Vancouver Crisis Centre. He recently passed away on November 7, 2021.

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      Learn How to Draw Faces and Portraits For the Absolute Beginner - John Davidson

      Learn How to Draw

      Faces and Portraits

      For the Absolute Beginner

      Adrian Sanqui and John Davidson

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction: Drawing tools

      Basic head layout

      Facial Features

      --Eyes

      --Nose

      --Mouth

      Measuring via Eye size

      Front View

      Quarter View

      Side view/ Profile

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      Introduction: Drawing tools

      Pencils

      The most important tool you need to be able to enhance your drawing skill is a medium that can be corrected in case you make sloppy line strokes. It is better if you have pencils of different grades so you can have the kind of lightness or darkness you want to make. The ‘H’ engraved near on the pencil’s tip (side of eraser) stand for hardness, it ranges from 2H to 9H. A pencil with only an H mark and doesn’t have a number means

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