Week 5 (Face):

Exercise #1

In pencil, draw this portrait very small in the middle of a page in miniature.

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1. Draw her right half of the face in light-gray; 
2. keep the other side white; 
3. add black silhouette of the hair; 
4. add black silhouette of the dress; 
5. draw the eyes; 
6. darken the 5 areas: 

1. shadows under the eyebrow, 
2. under the eye, 
3. under the nose, 
4. the upper lip, 
5. under the chin / neck. 

1. Use the eraser to lighten the brooch, the collar, and the highlights on the coat and hair. 
2. Darken the background with two different tones of gray: midtone gray (behind the back of the head) and dark-gray (in front of the face)

Exercise #2

Create a drawing, using 5 tones of the Grayscale: white, light-gray, mid-gray, dark-gray, and black. 

Notice the 3 belts on the face: 

1. the forehead belt - light gray. 
2. the cheeks / nose belt - mid-gray. 
3. the chin and bottom of the cheeks belt - dark gray. 

Black areas: hair, suit, the eye areas, under the nose, the upper lip, under the lower lip, under the chin.

Add the background. 

Using the eraser (retractable eraser, or cut Artgum at an angle), draw white lines as highlights on the nose, on the lower lip, and the thickness of the skin of the lower eyelids. Note: expect your drawing to be mostly dark!

Exercise #3

Home Assignment: 

To draw this face again but differently - by rendering each feature individually like you’ve learned in this course: the eyes, the nose, the lips - according to their tonal nuances. The white should be only in the areas of the highlights. Doing this home assignment is the only way for you to retain this information and make drawing faces your second nature. 

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What you think you know now will vanish without a trace, unless you seal it in your mind through conscious practice. 

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If you publish your drawing on your social media, don’t forget to mention where you learned this technique. 

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