When you draw (portrait) do you start with the clothes, hair, face etc?
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KiloWattKid
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outline of the face first.
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Face usually. Depends, of course, on the pose.
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Face always
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I have always been taught and seen the face to be the first thing drawn first - outlined roughly, in charcoal or pencil then fine tuned more, then paint comes later.
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well sketch the shapes out first in light pencil or charcoal.then add shading and detail later.color etc.
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Hair and Face
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Outline of jaw, then shoulders. I always do the face last.
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Actually my tonque. I'll dab my tonque first then start in on the nose.
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I usually start with an outline of the face shape, then draw the eyes first.
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usualy hair, then shape the chin, and i go from there
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Head/hair, then body, then cloths, then last of all face
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I always block in the overall shape and the negative spaces, then work in the shadows - from most prominent to least prominent, followed by the obvious lights/areas of exposure, then begin adding mid-tones and mid-tonal colour. I don't start and continue to work on a specific area per se, I work on all of it at once, moving from the most obvious - the darkest shaded area to the least obvious - making a transition from unrefined to refined, just as someone would do when carving.
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I always block in the overall shape and the negative spaces, then work in the shadows - from most prominent to least prominent, followed by the obvious lights/areas of exposure, then begin adding mid-tones and mid-tonal colour. I don't start and continue to work on a specific area per se, I work on all of it at once, moving from the most obvious - the darkest shaded area to the least obvious - making a transition from unrefined to refined, just as someone would do when carving.
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I begin with a light pencil outline for general placement. Then, being right-handed, I work from the upper left corner toward the lower right corner which keeps my hand out of the drawing itself. If I need to go back and touch up an area I use a bridge (a stick that can be rested on the right side of the paper and held aloft on the left) to rest my right hand without touching the work and messing anything up. If it is a smaller work, I can use a piece of paper over my work (secured on the side of the work surface so that it won't slide around). I don't usually allow myself to work on any one part before any others, but sometimes I will create the face and throat area, from the top left downward, and then go back and add the background and hair, often with the canvas/paper upside-down to keep my hand out of the already drawn areas.
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Eyes.
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I usually start with the part of the face or hair that I find most interesting.
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If you want to do a good portrait, You should start with the eyes and nose first and then work your way gradually to the outside and the contours. First the face, everything else is secondary.
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I always start with the facial features.
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Shape of the head, maybe a line for nose and eyes, neck position, shoulders, then add first level details slowly
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yes
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i start with something that might resemble a face if you squint and look at it from really far away :)
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I do the face first and work my way down
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i usually draw the right eye then work horizontally to the nose then to the left eye. after that i draw the mouth and then the jaw and then the ears and then hair and then the body. but right now i am just using faces and not the whole person
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It is really best to first determine the composition of the portrait and the size of ground you will be working on, ( ground being the paper, canvas, etc.) you can do this either by visualizing your image on the ground or by using a view finder. ( a piece of paper with a square or rectangular hole cut out. ) then once you know he lay out it is then usually best to start with the subjects eyes as you can get a finer sense of proportion to the face as well as the mood or emotion of the subject. follow thru from there going from eyes to nose to mouth and then finally the bone structure and shape of face, then any hair or clothing that is applicable
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Well, you're supposed to just do the overall structure first. After that, I usually start with the eyes. I think most people do, but it doesn't really matter.
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i always start with the shape of the face. then everything else seems to fall into place.
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I usually start with the entire shape of the face and shoulders just to determine the space. +3
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