Learn drawing pencil portrait

Portrait painting or portrait drawing is a genre of painting and drawing. Here the artists intend to depict visual appearance of the subject or the person whose portrait is to be made. Here are a few basic rules to observe while portraying. [dscn7203, originally uploaded by asterix611.] ​

While looking first time at the face you are going to draw, you should carefully observe the geometrical proportions of different parts of the face, the parts that comprise a human face: the eyes, the nose, the lips, and hair.

The Basics: It would be important to find out the rhythm of the pose of the person being portrayed. First of all we should draw the figure in faint lines, so that we can change it at any time afterwords. Moreover there are certain tiny aspects to remember. the artists would not miss to mark difference in size and shape of upper and lower eyelid. Mark carefully how the upper eyelid covers portion of the whole eye. That would be your first act to draw the eyes; after that start drawing iris and then sketch out eyelids around it.

The Details: It is a common belief that both the eyes of a person are similar in size and shape. However that may not be true in everyone’s case. Our eyes are not the mirror image of each other. Moreover the shape of an eye varies with movement of eyelids. The wind also effects the position of eyelids and the shape of the eyes. So while drawing the eyes, you are to keep several aspects in mind.

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