How To Color A Face With Colored Pencils

Colored Pencil Portrait Tutorial

Human Proportions

Proportion is the principle of art that is concerned with the human relationship of ane function of an object or prototype when compared to another function of an object or epitome. As y'all can imagine, when it comes to drawing a human face, proportion is incredibly important. Become the proportions wrong, and y'all'll end up offending your model. When a realistic portrait is created, the intent is usually to draw the person the mode they are seen. The goal is to capture what people refer to as the "likeness" of the person. Some knowledge of the proportions of the human being face up are plain required. Conveniently, the main features of the face have relative relationships, so placing them on a confront in a drawing doesn't have to be guesswork. The relative placement of the features is outlined briefly in the paragraph below. For more than specifics on the placement of facial features check out this folio.

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A Quick Overview of Facial Proportions

When cartoon a face, a circle is first drawn to establish the cranium. Next, a line is drawn down to the chin. The lines for jaw are added side by side. Side by side, placement of the features is established, starting with the eyes. Eyes are found in the middle of the head, or half-way downwards from the top of the caput. Next, the placement of the nose is established one-half-style between the heart line and the bottom of the chin. Standing down the face up, the mouth is established next, positioning itself just slightly above half-way between the bottom of the nose and the bottom of the mentum. Ears are located betwixt the eye line and the olfactory organ line.

Drawing a Portrait with Colored Pencils

Portraits, of class, are created with a diversity of media and techniques. Each medium demands its own gear up of approaches and colored pencils are no exception. The first thing to consider is keeping your medium consistent. Since the portrait is to be drawn with colored pencils, and so colored pencils should be the medium that you lot use throughout completion of the drawing. Many people think that a preliminary drawing admittedly must be done with graphite (pencil). Using a graphite pencil, even in the preliminary stages, will crusade issues with your drawing. The graphite, y'all see, will mix with the wax binder in colored pencils and make your colors appear greyness. And then, it's best to utilise only colored pencils. I ordinarily utilise a light brown for preliminary sketching, like I accept in the video tutorial that follows.

Colored pencils perform all-time when they are layered and mixed. This gives the finished drawing a level of depth and complication and the drawing almost translates every bit a painting. It is important to take full reward of the medium past layering details directly on summit of layered applications of colored pencil. Patience as well must be exuded, since colored pencils, as a medium, require time. (See which colored pencil brands I recommend hither.)

The trickiest part of completing a portrait with colored pencils comes when skin tones are to exist mixed. Near all skin tones in the world can exist mixed using a combination of red, xanthous, dark-brown, and white. Blue is also used for shadows, or to make values darker. But, generally, red, yellow, brown, and white are the colors most used. Some tones volition require more chocolate-brown, while others will require more yellow or white. It is all-time to create the skin tone that you are after through mixing. This, as mentioned before, volition lead to more complexity in the color and will make the drawing appear more realistic.

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