Today’s face is called “Everyone is Beautiful”. As you can see, I wrote those words in her hair.
When I started to sketch her, I decided to grab my camera and photograph some of my steps. I have some friends who are beginning their face painting and sketching journey, encouraged by 29 Faces. I thought it might help to see someone else go through the stages of a creating a face.
I started with a circle/oval and then divided the face up and placed my eyes, nose and mouth.
As you can see, I divide the face in half vertically, then half way down, I position the eyes with 2 circles and a line for a top lid, then half way down again I draw a circle with 2 dots for the nose and then half way down again I draw a line for the middle of the mouth with a wide M above it for the top lip and a semi circle for the bottom lip.
Then I define things a little more. I added ears (the bottom of the lobe lines up with the nose), shaped the temples, defined nostrils and added a little bit of a chin.
I added hair and eyebrows and worked on the eyes.
I added color with Neocolor II watersoluble crayons and acrylics.
I used ink to redefine the details and added a bit of shading. I wasn’t loving her too much here. The eyes are too green. I tried bringing in a bit more blue for balance. I also lost the shape of the temple and the ear here, which I had liked before… It stays lost, but that’s all part of learning. I’ll worry about ears and temples another day.
Adding blush and more shading. I like using a lavender color for shadows. Her nose needs fixing along with the white areas on the face near her hair which should be darker.
I fixed her nose, added my song lyric “everyone is beautiful in their own way” and used some white acrylic for highlights. I added some sketchy scribbles and cross hatching. I still have to fix the shading on her face.
And she’s finished. I used pencil crayons to shade the hair, add blue to the eyelids, and to fix the areas on the face that needed fixing.
On to the next face!
She's so sweet and adorable :).
Thank you for sharing your process. It's always interesting to see how all the different layers add up to a beautiful piece of art.
This is fabulous, Tori, and will help me so much. Thank you for a great step-by-step. I am absolutely determined to be able to draw cute faces of some kind before this month is over! hugs!!
Thank you for the step by step demo – she really is beautiful!
Very pretty. Love seeing the process.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your progress pictures 🙂