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Building up the portrait DRAWING PORTRAITS
1Gently spin pale lines in a softly drawn shape representing the 2Rapidly add shorthand shapes to represent the face, neck, and
cranium.Theangle at which you draw this shape of the paper throat. First lines will remain visible in the final drawing, so it is
will determine the angle of the finished head. Keep your first lines light; important to the life of the image that while controlled, they are also
avoid drawing too dark, too soon. still sweeping and confident.
3 Place the eye beneath the cranium. Here, I used light to describe 4 Moving from the back of the neck, over the cranium, down the
the upper lid first with a shadow beneath for the lower lid and face to the throat, I modeled the outline of the character I imagined
open eye. The eye announces the nature and expression of the emerging light shining from above and in front and adjusted the pressure of lines
to reflect this.
person. The nose and ear begin to shape the head.
