I'm so frustrated! I have a degree in art, and I took life drawing but had a horrible instructor. I try to draw my friends and family.... the drawings look good, but they don't resemble the person I'm drawing. I can draw other things realistically, and I really want to be able to do portraits too. Can anyone offer some suggestions?
2007-01-26 05:32:22 · 8 answers · asked by crazetastic 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
Practice, practice, practice!!
Another class with a good instructor might be good too.
I think with drawing it is true what they say practice makes perfect.
Best wishes.
2007-01-26 13:08:32 · answer #1 · answered by winslow 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lolz, I can't draw anime characters for the life of me, but I've always been good at people. If you're used to drawing people with different proportions the way to get rid of it is to graph out the image before hand. I first started drawing people by graphing them out. You draw straight lines across important body parts, eyes, mouth, nose, ears etc... until you've created a grid. Recreate the grid on your drawing paper and take in the negative space and general shape within each little box, by not examining the whole picture you can draw without thinking of them as people till you start shading or coloring them in. It's a great way to get the shape correctly, shading just takes practice.
2016-03-29 03:40:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could take life drawing classes at your local community college so you can get strong foundation and then also practice at home from different photographs and practice over and over until you become better and better. Then also you can go to an Art Store such as Michaels and get an art book on how to draw people and practice, practice, practice.
2007-01-26 06:51:27 · answer #3 · answered by lisa_mariah 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
try the book "drawing on the right side of the brain". It recommends to practice drawing the object up-side down so that you trick your brain into drawing what is in front of you instead of what you have have pre-conceived. Obviously this would not be done with a live model, or someone could get hurt! :)
2007-01-26 07:40:32 · answer #4 · answered by carol a 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Take another drawing class at a local university. Maybe you'll get a better instructor this time.
2007-01-26 05:37:26 · answer #5 · answered by artsycasey 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
http://www.wikihow.com/Draw-Human-Faces (follow some of the links from this page as well)
http://drawsketch.about.com/od/drawingtips/qt/drawlikenesstip.htm (tips on how to capture likenesses)
http://www.picturedraw.co.uk/Drawing%20a%20head%20in%20pencil.htm (there are more links on the right of this page under "how to draw..." which gives you more detailed information on each facial feature)
For me the eyes are most critical in getting a likeness. The rest is easier for me to gauge if I have their spirit captured first.
I hope this helps a little. Good luck!
2007-02-03 03:20:50 · answer #6 · answered by Moira 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hey practice is always the key ,it takes discipline .Have people other than the ones you drew criticize your art to point out where you are going wrong .I never took are courses but self taught myself portrait drawing .It needs Patience.Learn the human proportions you find it on the net
2007-01-26 05:56:53 · answer #7 · answered by sarah r 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/face_n_head_1/FandH.html
This might help.
2007-01-26 06:42:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋