How to Draw a Female Portrait in Graphite
The purpose of this lesson is to learn the proportions of the human head and the main principles of working with light and shadow, as well as linear constructive drawing. When it comes to paired objects like eyes, you need to draw them simultaneously, the left and right one at the same time. This helps to maintain symmetry and similarity in sizes. For example, you can mark the left edge of the upper eyelid and the same outline on the right. Draw it as one continuous line with a big gap in the middle. This is one of the secrets of drawing eyes in the same size and character. If you do one eye then draw the other, it will be much harder to maintain symmetry and alignment. This is a very important rule of professional drawing. We draw eyebrow outlines in the same way—one on the left and then immediately on the right. The virtual vertical line between eyebrows is protruding more than the line of the bridge of the nose. It is important to notice that in most cases the inner corner of the eye and the edge of the nose wing do not lie on the same vertical line. The line between these two points is tilted, so the nose is protruding more than the eye.
