[Learn to draw]
By Tissa Hewavitarane
Painting nose and lip
We
will start with a reminder on how to sharpen your pencil, rather than
resort to a pencil sharpener. Most artists prefer to use a knife or a
blade. This helps them to create a chisel point on a pencil which gives
a wide edge for thick lines or shading, and a thin one for fine lines.
After you have learned to draw facial features accurately then the whole
face can be drawn with confidence. It is simpler to break the parts down
into stages than to try to master the whole lot at once.
The
nose is the most obvious part of the face to start with. It comes in all
shapes and sizes. It can be crooked, straight or droopy. Small, long,
thin, fat or well formed noses are usually found in every human face.
Careful study is required before putting pencil to paper.
Fig. 1 will show the outline of drawing noses in different shapes and
bottom face of a man and a woman with sharp nose.
Fig. 2 gives examples taken from life. Notice how the overall shape
of each nose varies from person to person, the nostrils are essentially
much the same. They only differ according to the angle from which they
are viewed.
Fig. 3 gives you more ideas on how our noses can differ. Observe the
way your nose is put together, how your nostrils appear as dark slots
and varies in painting. I have shown a pale coating of colour texture
according to one's own skin.
Drawing
and painting bit of lip, there are numerous different mouth shapes and
features change with age. Most lips are curvy with a dip in the middle
of the upper one. Mouth can also be uneven, one side being different
from the other.
Fig. 4 illustrates how lips reveal the lips are creased by small
lines which follow the curve of the flesh. The lines can be deep or
faint many or few and they tend to be criss-crossed in the elderly.
Take a step forward now, by drawing a nose and the mouth beneath it,
as in example Fig. 5. Observe the different angles. Put the shading and
few facial lines and I have shown in colour.
Drawing noses and mouths is straight forward and drawing can be done
in an hour or two. The examples given here is to help you to become
quick accurate and to draw with simple lines. |