how do you draw a realistic looking person?
i wanna be able to draw a person i can draw cartoons and realistic roses good but i feel like i need to learn how to draw people [eba kw="How To D...
i wanna be able to draw a person i can draw cartoons and realistic roses good but i feel like i need to learn how to draw people
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Try to draw as many details as you can. It also helps to use as many colors as possible for the details. Also, use pencil to make shadows, use your finger to sort of smudge the pencil, giving the illusion that there is a shadow. If you’re drawing hair, i suggest scribbling (i know that sounds lazy) but then lightly erase until it gives the illusion that there is hair. That’s all i got.
Look, the first thing you do is go to the library and ask for BOTH Betty Edwards’s Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain AND Kimon Nikolaides’s The Natural Way to Draw. If they don’t have one or the other get it through inter-library loan. You don’t have to read them both but skim them both and try the exercises in both.
That said there is a lot to learn about anatomy. There are books but I will send you to an excellent web site on the subject:
http://drawinglab.evansville.edu
Professor Larmee has a sister site about perspective.
start with a self portrait (my art teacher did that and the reason was cuz he knew we would work are hardest on it cuz it was ourself) when he first suggested we do that i thought mine would turn out terrible but it was actually the best in the class and ive never draw a real person b4 i always drew cartoons too. first though make a grid over the picture and on the piece of paper (draw the grid lightly on the piece of paper) the grid can either help u or not but for me it was a life saver! then just draw the shapes that make up the picture. after that shade use a 8b pencil for the really dark spots and a 4h for the light. it will all just come together
(sorry im not very good at explaining but i tried XD)
Go to any book stores & look for any books on how to draw faces/realistic portraits/etc.-(thrift stores may have art books too.) good luck.-go to the craft stores & look for “blending sticks” for “shading”-(pieces of cloth & tissue work for shading too.)-look for good art pencils if you don’t have any.
Get books about drawing people and practice is always good. Andrew Loomis is a famous artist from the mid 20th century who wrote amazingly immaculate books about drawing people. His books are the most detailed books about drawing people that I have ever seen.
The website below has about four of his books where you can view every page.