How to Draw Lips

Video Transcript

"Joel Hickerson, grindog.com. Today we're going to learn how to draw lips. First thing about lips, draw a face, the bottom half of a face, and we'll draw a nose. And that's an important point of reference for our lips, okay? We come down straight from the nose. Draw us a line. We're going to have a little top of the lips, comes in, draw lips themselves. Now there's a little half arch here, comes down right directly on the nose, there's another little half arch, and then you have, usually, a full bottom lip. Kay? So, your lips themselves, are going to come right down below the nose, just a little half circle, comes up to the nose. Have your lips. There are wrinkle lines inside the lips that you can accentuate. Again, it depends on the age of the person. You can slightly part the lips if you want and actually give the indication that there's teeth back there. Shadow the lips. The top lip is usually a little bit over the bottom lip so you're going to get a little bit of a shadow underneath the bottom lip. And usually underneath the bottom lip, you're going to have a little bit of shadow before you hit thee half circle of the chin. Course, probably come up a little higher than this. And lips can be thinner or fuller, depending on your subject matter. Now if you're drawing a portrait, naturally you're going to be looking at your subject to determine what's type of lips they have. But mainly come directly beneath the gap between the nostrils. Come straight down to form this, come down the sides, up, there's always a half circle here, down and your lips could be fuller than this, but that's a good, I guess, middle ground subtle lips. And that's how you draw lips."