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1. Procedures for Pencil Portrait Drawing - Drawing a Chin Supporting Hand Together with Shoulders Including a hand in your portraits adds a important measure of drama but can quickly destroy an otherwise fine portrait if done badly. The goal is to integrate the hand so that it is not only proportionally and gestural right, but is congruous... (posted by Remi 3 years 130 days ago.)

2. Advice on Pencil Portrait Sketching - The Tilted Skull View To create interesting fluid portraits that breathe life you must understand the effect of the spine on the skull and shoulders. To craft a relaxed feeling in your portraits quite often you will need to draw the skull tilted. Most people when... (posted by Remi 3 years 130 days ago.)

3. Information on Pencil Portrait Sketching - Drawing Kids The sketching of children demands freshness and directness of purpose. Regrettably, there are not too many quick and ready rules. Let us just say that children's portraits demand a keen and patient eye. For those who intend to do commercial... (posted by Remi 3 years 130 days ago.)

4. Instructions on Pencil Portrait Sketching - Drawing Hairdos Sketching hair is dictated by several factors: the type of hair, its hue, texture, amount, the arrangement and styling of the hair, the personality and mood of the model or the photograph, and the light effect upon the hair. The contour of the... (posted by Remi 3 years 130 days ago.)

5. Tips on Pencil Portrait Drawing - Muscles That Create the Smile A smile is the result of happiness. It lifts and widens the bottom of the face and the uplifted cheeks will often crease the flesh just below the eyes resulting in the so-called "crow' feet". To comprehend the makings of a smile in its... (posted by Remi 3 years 130 days ago.)

6. Guidelines for Pencil Portrait Sketching - Overall Muscle Structure of the Muzzle Capturing the delicate, fleeting gestures of human feelings in portrait drawing is a test for every artist. There are basically six main feelings: disgust, surprise, fear, sadness, anger and happiness. The gestures of these main feelings are... (posted by Remi 3 years 130 days ago.)

7. Tips on Pencil Portrait Drawing - Using Strong Illumination and Shadows Value is one of the most vexing elements of portraiture. Most artists are very reluctant about tone and do not push the shadows far enough. This is often because: 1. Their eyes are not yet coached to see the delicate gradations, and 2. The... (posted by Remi 3 years 130 days ago.)

8. Instructions on Pencil Portrait Drawing - Positioning Skull Markers A pencil portrait sketch from life starts with the "drawing" of the arabesque. Striking the arabesque means sketching the outer contour of the skull with the accurate proportions, form, and theaccurate symmetry. Once you have drawn a... (posted by Remi 3 years 131 days ago.)

9. Guidelines for Pencil Portrait Drawing - The Six Steps of Portrait Drawing Drawing in general entails 4 distinct steps: line, value, texture, and form. In the special case of pencil portrait sketch we can refine the list of steps to six: form, proportion, anatomy, texture, value, and planes. In this article we will give... (posted by Remi 3 years 132 days ago.)

10. Tips on Oil Painting - Painting Edges There are several reasons why the use of edges in an oil painting is important: * Degree of Hardness - Edges can be used to express the degree of hardness or softness of objects and subjects. * Degree of Roundness - Edges can also be used to... (posted by Remi 3 years 186 days ago.)

11. Tips on Oil Painting - Oil Painting Supports A ground or support is any kind of surface you can paint on. The choice of ground is in quite important because it determines in part how your painting will be perceived by the viewer. Your support must satisfy a minimum of conditions. It must... (posted by Remi 3 years 186 days ago.)

12. Tips on Oil Painting - Know Your Paints In this discussion we assume that you use a basic 6-color. The 6-color palette could consist of the following colors: 1. Lemon Yellow 2. Cadmium Yellow 3. Cadmium Red 4. Permanent Rose (Alizarin Crimson) 5. French Ultramarine Blue 6. Phthalo Blue... (posted by Remi 3 years 186 days ago.)

13. Tips on Oil Painting - Canvas Priming When you refuse to buy any of the pre-fabricated canvases you can always buy a roll of primed or raw canvas cloth. The first step in the process towards constructing a finished canvas is the stretching of the canvas. Once the stretching is done it... (posted by Remi 3 years 186 days ago.)

14. Tips on Oil Painting - Solvents Mediums and Varnishes If you paint with oils you will need a solvent to clean your brushes and thin your paints. Of course, if you paint with water soluble oils then your solvent will be water. Turpentine is a standard solvent used to thin ordinary oil paints. You can... (posted by Remi 3 years 186 days ago.)

15. Pencil Drawing Fundamentals - Integration of the Basic Forms Any scene can initially be seen as a composition of a series of forms that are all related to four basic geometric solids: the brick, the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone. In this article we will discuss the interaction of these four forms and... (posted by Remi 3 years 186 days ago.)

16. Pencil Drawing Fundamentals - Drawing Spheres Any scene can initially be seen as a composition of a series of forms that are all related to four basic geometric solids: the brick, the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone. In this article we concentrate on the sphere, i.e., we will detail its... (posted by Remi 3 years 186 days ago.)

17. Pencil Drawing Fundamentals - Drawing Cylinders Any scene can initially be seen as a composition of a series of forms that are all related to four basic geometric solids: the brick, the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone. In this article we concentrate on the cylinder, i.e., we will detail its... (posted by Remi 3 years 186 days ago.)

18. Pencil Drawing Fundamentals - The Shading Phase The purpose of shading is to give your subject three-dimensionality. When you are done with shading, your scene should look like it is anchored in space and is not just an object in a plane. Values are, by definition, degrees of darkness and... (posted by Remi 3 years 186 days ago.)

19. Pencil Drawing Fundamentals - The Line Drawing Phase In this article we deal with the line drawing phase. We assume that we already have a gridded reference picture of the correct size at our disposal. Your reference image will often be too large for most printers to print in one piece. To get... (posted by Remi 3 years 186 days ago.)

20. Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on the Eyes As with all features of the human face, it is important that we do not draw the preconceived ideas we have about eyes. The eyes are the windows to a person's soul and reflect much of the emotionality and personality of that person. Therefore, they... (posted by Remi 3 years 285 days ago.)

21. Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Hair Drawing hair is not all that difficult but it does take quite a bit of time to make the result to look real and natural. In fact, it usually takes two to three times longer to do the hair than it does to do the rest of the portrait. So, do not get... (posted by Remi 3 years 285 days ago.)

22. Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Backgrounds Backgrounds are useful in enhancing your vision of how you want to represent your subjects. Backgrounds can soften the presentation or make it more energetic or dramatic. However, whatever you do, make sure that the background works with the... (posted by Remi 3 years 285 days ago.)

23. Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Cropping Cropping is a presentation technique that displays a subject within the borders of your paper and often involves a truncation of some parts of the subject. For example, part of a hat or an arm may be truncated or cropped. Cropping is a device... (posted by Remi 3 years 285 days ago.)

24. Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Montage A montage is somewhat like a collage. On one piece of paper you put together any number of related subjects. However, instead of pasting them onto the paper you will draw them. A montage is often used to tell a story about the person you are... (posted by Remi 3 years 285 days ago.)

25. Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Clothing Drawing clothing can be quite challenging. The challenge usually centers on the drawing of the folds. There is a lot of reflected light, lots of darks, and many lights. But it is exactly this variety of values that makes the drawing of clothes... (posted by Remi 3 years 285 days ago.)