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Title: Street
created on 13 Nov 10

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Comments on this picture (25):
1. matthew wrote: Sweet!!!
2. mdawrcn wrote: Love it, and I am going to try to do one of your pics one day. I'm Debbie too.
3. methinks wrote: This is excellent!
4. mum23 wrote: You're sooo good at these! Love it!
5. suzze wrote: Fantastic!
6. polenta wrote: your specialty... and very pretty
7. Lizzi wrote: I like the contrast of old and new. You have so much building power!
8. DebbieBreau wrote: Thanks everyone. mdawrcn...so happy you are going to do one of my pics. Cold here where we live. The homeless cats are are now sleeping warmly in our heated car port...They are so happy even if they don't have a home of their own...I watch and lear
9. bhughes wrote: Really good.
10. five wrote: Hi, Debbie. To try to answer your question about structuring faces... it helps to see the face as something besides a face. An old trick is to see the face (or human body as a landscape). You draw wonderful buildings. It may help you to imagine the fac
11. five wrote: imagine the face as buildings, with the nose an outcropping with an angled awning and the lips a relief of the facade; the eyes would be inset windows (with a ball being pushed out)
12. five wrote: Then eventually drop details since you won't need them all to define the shapes. It also helps to observe that the defining lines to mark the eyes, nose, lip placement in a frontal view match approximately the side profile of a person -- the side profile
13. five wrote: -- it is easier to draw the outline of the side profile. So to place the eyes, nose and lips, you can overlap two side profiles facing one another, or draw one side profile and then round out the shape of the face. Helps, too, to keep the shadows on one
14. five wrote: side of the face. In the end, a diagonal line with a dot for the opposite nostril and a bit of light shadow under the nostril will convey a nose, then flesh out the shape of the nose around the nostrils. The lips are a thin ellipse (varied for fullness
15. five wrote: of the lips) with a line running through (higher or lower depending on relative size of upper and lower lips). On the lips, helps after seeing the top of ellipse to push it in at the top to get the triangular dip in the top lip and add a bit of shading (
16. five wrote: or even another thin line) under the lower lip to allude to the fat that the face sinks in from the lower lip. It also helps, but is not essential, to lightly indicate the dip between the nose and lips, which can be done with two parallel vertical lines o
17. five wrote: or with shading. A bit of shading or darkness can also show the depth between the eye and the top of the nose. It's helpful to set the eyes enough apart from the nose that it's believable that there is room for the nose to be raised from the face.
18. five wrote: I hope this helps -- I really think if you imagine the face as buildings, it will help a lot since it will feel more similar to what you have been doing with your buildings.
19. five wrote: Somewhere in the forum, someone had asked about drawing noses in particular, and a number of people made good suggestions, including Qsilv (who does lovely faces). I tried to find it
20. five wrote: but could not locate the thread. Wish we had a forum search feature. Let me know if what I wrote is confusing and I will try to clarify. If you like, I could probably do a picture in which the playback provided a tutorial -- when I have a little time t
21. five wrote: time to focus on it.
22. five wrote: I found the forum post -- it was started by babyangel -- I bumped it to the top of the forum (community section) for you to check out...
23. five wrote: though there was less there than I remembered...
24. five wrote: I did a picture to try to show some of what I said about the nose and lips step by step exaggerated for emphasis. Unfortunately playback is very fast so I don't know if it will help. And of course I goofed and put the eyes too close together! :) FWIW...
25. five wrote: FWIW... http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php ?pictureId=127874