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leftinthemiddle — Paul McCartney Drawing
Published: 2009-04-04 15:30:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 155; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 3
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No creative title for this one.Yesterday, my dad was working on my computer all day, so I put my free time to good use and drew a picture of Paul that I have always loved and wished I could draw myself.
Paying careful attention to his features and the placement of them, I was able to make it really look like him, to my delight. I did have to fix some things and it's still a little bit off, but no one can be perfect. Oh yeah, except for some people on here who have done the same drawing!
I hope you enjoy my version of this famous photo.
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i drew the exact same picture you can see it in my gallery
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Wow, I'm really really REALLY tempted to ask for portrait drawing tips, seriously. What impresses me the most about this is how you draw the features like the eyes and lips (which I always find as the hardest things to draw). It's very easily identifiable as Paul.
The addition of the black border is a nice touch!
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I'm terrible at explaining things, but I really do want to tell you how I do these drawings:
The idea is to look at everything as shapes. You say to yourself, "That's not a lip, it's a curve that is a little pointy over here and there's a shadow over there." Eventually things start coming together. You have to get away from the idea of drawing LINES as much as possible. I'm pretty bad at drawing a madeup person with no picture to refer to. They come out flat-looking and like I did them when I was in middle school. Seriously, I can't draw lips or arms or anything, but I can look at a picture and observe it VERY carefully. I'm also bad at laying things out so that the distances are equal to what the distances are in the photo. So what I did this time was measure them with my pencil and put a fingernail mark in the pencil where I needed it. That helped a little. My sister's advice is to ask yourself "What makes that person THAT PERSON?" What is most distinct about his/her features that I can try to portray? With Paul, he has a very distinct eyelid. The rest of it is down to just looking very closely at every little bit. I would think drawing it to the exact scale of the photo you're looking at would also be a good idea. I think that's the extent of the tips I have to offer; I hope you can find them somewhat helpful!
Yeah, I went and bought some black posterboard (no need for expensive framing!) so that I could put it on my wall (using cheap tape!).
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I wish I could give you a high five through the computer screen, because this was VERY helpful. You have a really good way of giving tips that never sound patronising, how do you do that?
Especially the bit that's probably the most relevant to me is "get away from drawing lines" 
Very helpful stuff indeed. Now I'm in the mood to do some practice tonight while this is all fresh in my head. I'm feeling inspired now!
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Oh good, I'm so glad I made sense. 
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