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Phobos-Romulus — Female Face Portrait Drawing Tutorial
Published: 2012-11-20 05:24:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 40379; Favourites: 1213; Downloads: 559
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A tutorial I whipped up centering around my 3 recently submitted portraits. I've always liked drawing portraits, so I thought I'd make a tutorial to help others out with the activity.Any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
Please excuse any typos. I'm usually good about this sort of thing, but when there's a lot of text, it sometimes slips under my radar.
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Yeah it sure did.
I also like looking at animated short films, some of them are crazy awesome, like this one called "The Fly"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0IgZF…
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That's amazing! You can tell how much work and effort was put in to make that short little film...
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Yeah, there's tons of amazing short films out there.
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The only kind of issue is that one scared the crap out of me... It's so lifelike...
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Nice tutorial, love your drawing! 
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Glad you could make use of it!
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Thanks for making this, it really helped, especially the part with the hair!! Any other tips you can give me for the hair please?
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I'd look at what Andrew Loomis has to say about hair.
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But I also remember this post by cartoonist John Kricfalusi(ren and stimpy) that seemed quite helpful about structure.
[link]
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Ok thanks! I'll check these out!! Thanks again for the help!
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Ok just came up with a question for you: how would you deal with blond eyebrows? (something i'm kinda stuck with at moment)
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Hmm, I think I usually just make them dark anyway. Eyebrows are usually darker compared to rest of the hair.
You don't have to make them black or anything, but a few shades darker than the rest of hair usually works.
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Cool i'll try that - makes sense 
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No problem, glad I could help!
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Funny a lot - a whole lot - of artist sort of try to avoid/downplay the nose when drawing girls but you really define it - and it works! Nice!
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Yeah, that's what I was talking about. Many people just slap the nose on the face like it isn't even a necessary component for the face.
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I'll try it as well but it'll be hard i think because it is so hard wired to avoid noses. I remember when i was kid and a friend showed me how to draw "hot chicks": he said just draw two tiny lines for the nostrils and nothing else - i think a lot of people learned it that way. Well time to get all Yoda about it and "unlearn what i have learned"
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It's also a biproduct of the manga mentality. I don't want to hate too much on manga, but it has led to breed some laziness in certain aspects of illustration.
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Thanks for looking!
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I think this is a very good tutorial, especially your notes about the nose as 3 planes and eyes not being round (a probably I especially have).
Thank you very much for creating and posting this!
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No problem! Glad you could make use of it!
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Thanks, hope it helps in some way!
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These are nice tips, I just wish they could come earlier because I attempted a portrait yesterday.
This tutorial is quite helpful.
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Start another one then! You can never draw too much!
Thanks man, hope it helps!
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Thanks man! Really appreciate it!
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