Teach Yourself Visually Drawing

While it isn’t necessary to know every bone and muscle in the human head and figure in order to draw it well, “the more you know ...

The Portrait chapter 11 It is a very good idea for the student who is serious about drawing portraits and the human figure (see ...

Facial Features Now that you have an understanding of the “foundation” for building a human head, you can move on to giving it a ...

The Portrait chapter 11 CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE THE EYE This image of an eye, which is the right eye from the portrait on the pre ...

Facial Features (continued) THE NOSE It’s important to have a clear understanding of the forms and proportions of the nose. It i ...

The Portrait chapter 11 THE MOUTH The mouth is, without a doubt, the most flexible feature of the human face and is capable of a ...

Facial Features (continued) This copy after another Degas portrait of the same individual will be used to further examine facial ...

The Portrait chapter 11 THE EYE From this angle (a), it becomes clearer how deeply the eyeball is set in the skull, with the eye ...

THE NOSE In this^3 ⁄ 4 view of the nose (a), the triangular side plane is defined as the shadow side of the nose. Of course, the ...

The Portrait chapter 11 THE MOUTH Here the mouth is shown from a^3 ⁄ 4 view which, as with the eye shown from the same angle, fo ...

Drawing a Tonal Portrait. As this is the first drawing demonstration of an animate subject in the book, you might be sur- prised ...

The Portrait chapter 11 The best example of achieving a likeness can be considered in this way: You are walking outside at dusk, ...

In this stage, using line, the shape of the head and the place- ment and shape of the features have been refined. At this point, ...

The Portrait chapter 11 Here the artist has begun to develop some range of tone. The drawing has been “keyed” at this point, ind ...

Gallery: Portrait Drawings. This beautiful portrait was drawn in charcoal and white chalk on orange/brown paper. The artist achi ...

The Portrait chapter 11 This poetic drawing has a wonderful, almost shimmering quality of light that is the result of the almost ...

This is a very animated pencil drawing that conveys a clear feeling that it was drawn from life. There is even the feeling that ...

The Portrait chapter 11 Because this contemporary (modern-day) portrait has a serene otherworldliness and a marked emphasis on t ...

This portrait, which was created with diluted black acrylic paint and brush, demonstrates a sureness of touch that comes with ye ...

The Portrait chapter 11 CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE Portrait of Jorge, by Frank Bruckmann, courtesy of the artist When a drawing is c ...