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By Remi Engels, guest blogger A smile is the result of happiness. It lifts and extends the bottom of the face and the uplifted cheeks will often crease the skin just below the eyes, creating the so-called “crow’s feet.” To recognize the makings of a smile in its numerous manifestations we must first appreciate the [...]

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Capturing the delicate, fleeting gestures of individual emotions in portrait sketching is a test for any draftsperson. There are basically six principal emotions: surprise, happiness, sadness, anger, fear and disgust. The gestures of these key feelings are instinctual, the muscle interactions and actions are involuntary. In general, the facial muscles are fragile, finely in step [...]

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By Remi Engles, guest blogger Most people have the fixed idea that the head is more or less formed like an oval. Actually, the head is much rectangular than we suppose. The oval ideas is one of those simplified preconceived symbols the mind uses as a means for quick identification. Most beginning students will usually [...]

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By Remi Engels, guest blogger For untutored artists the problem with seeing lies in the conflict that exists between the concrete visual reality of an item and the way the mind attempts to represent our perception of this reality on the drawing paper. This attempt invariably involves the propensity to draw our symbolic preconception instead of [...]

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By Remi Engels, guest blogger Presuppose that we have a profile where the head, arm, and fingers are visible and are in contact. Very often, the starting artist will endeavor to sketch each of these elements independently. The approach will invariably lead to frustration and in the end often to failure. Instead of drawing each [...]

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In this article we imagine that you draw directly from life or from a suitable photo. In other words, we imagine that you do not use the so-called grid method. This technique relies on a grid drawn both on the photo of your subject as well as your sketching paper.

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Sketching in always entails 4 separate elements: line, value, texture, and shape. In the special case of pencil portrait sketch we can refine the list of elements to six: shape, proportion, anatomy, texture, tone, and planes.

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{Rainbow-writing pencils|Pencils that write a rainbow} sound like a novelty item, but I’ve found the best ones to be a {fun and adaptable|versatile and addictive} drawing tool. They are so much fun that {they brighten your day|you will want to carry one everywhere}. I like using {them|rainbow pencils} {in business meetings|at work}, because they look [...]

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