How to Draw PeopleThis how to draw people demo shos step by step approach on drawing a girl's face. 
The artist begins this how to draw people demonstration by very lightly indicating the overall shape of the head. It is important to lay-in very lightly as you don't want those lines to show through on your finished pencil drawing. The artist also briefly indicated where the features will be placed.
Now, the artist started to introduce the facial features using full range of values. It is treated as if one is making a clay sculpture, such as inserting the eyes into the eye-sockets, etc. The artist depended on his understructure that he lightly laid in in the previous stage. It is very important to get the understructure right from the start as you cannot have a good finish without a good start. If the skeleton is formed wrong, the person will always look distorted no matter what you do with the muscles or features that goes on top.
Here, the artist developed on the features some more by tightening it up and adding more details. Then he began working outward from there, indicating the jawline, as well as hair indications. The artist kept the drawing rough, as he was aiming for the sketchy feel.
The artist went back to the face to work a lot more on it. Adding more halftones and generally tightening things up, introducing more complex forms. Also some adjustiing and alterations were done to achieve a better likeness of the subject.
Much more detailing and modeling was done to the face. The artist used the finger to smudge and blend certain areas, and also added more subtle halftones throughout the planes of the face drawing. The artist used his last minutes to render and polish the drawing to finish this how to draw people demonstration.Pencil portraits of people are the most complicated and difficult subjects to draw, but once you become good at it, you would be able to draw any other subjects with ease. That is why all the art colleges and institutions offer figure drawing courses, as figure drawing is essential in developing a good draughtsmanship. There are many ways to go about drawing the human figure. We suggest you have a look at the schools and classes we recommend on this site, as they have approaches of their own. Contact them and request a brochure to find out which method you would most be interested in. It is wise to learn as much different methods and techniques as you can, and eventually develope your own. It also helps a lot to copy the works of old masters. Go to a museum or get a book that shows good prints of the old master drawings, and copy them as close as you can. You will definitely learn a lot by doing this and get the feel of their approach. One can just observe intensely at a beautiful old master drawing and also learn something, but if you actually go ahead and copy it, you will be surprised how much more knowledge will be introduced to you, as you will also realize why they did things, why they made certain marks like that, etc. But you will never know those things by just watching or admiring the piece. It is also a great idea to keep a sketchbook wherever you go, and just sketch the people you see around you. This is one of the best way to learn how to draw people. The more you draw the faster you will improve. It eventually just comes down to mileage. Practice, practice, practice.
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