Drawing the Ears of a Portrait

Video Transcript

"Okay now that we've basically got the features of the face. We indicated the ears but we didn't do anything with them. And the best way to do ears is, it's almost like the nose. Less is more. But you have to look at the individual ear. But the lobe of the ear kind of comes up and this part just comes all the way down and actually goes into the ear. So I'll just draw this line here and then this, when you're over to this part of the earlobe it kind of just disappears. But then there's some shadows inside of the ear and that gives it some depth. And then you have where the earlobe enters the actual ear canal it kind of curves into there. I'll just indicate that and usually there's an earring or something there and then on the same one here I'm going to do basically the same thing. But the ears are usually different. So I'm just going to go in there and pull out the shadow. Going to indicate the ear canal there. And then sometimes this comes down to where you can see that it curves. And the same thing on this one. And then depending on where the light is, if the light source is one side or the other you can shade this ear. And so those are some ideas and techniques on drawing the ears on coquille board."