How to Draw Jesus

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jay French with jayfrenchstudios.com and I'm going to teach you how to draw Jesus. Of course, drawing Jesus is up to a lot of interpretation. We're just going to kind of do a classical general look here and you can variate it as you see fit. We're going to do an angle three quarter angle something good to do with that. We're going to give his hairline in here. What's good to do with the three quarter angle is to show some prominence. There's usually some dramatic features shown when Jesus depicted in art. Pronounce cheek bones, pronounce brow ridge. He's usually given a prominent nose partly because he's Middle Eastern and also it gives him a little more of a gentle look. Eyes of sort course are very important to capture and such an iconic figure so we want a lot of expression and depth to them and a lot of feeling in there as you can see there. Again, prominent eyebrows you don't want them to be sharply angled because we want a sensitive look. We're going to make this a smiling Jesus and any interpretations to the shape of his beard. We're going to go with a common combly shown sort of two points. I believe DaVinci was one of the artist to depict Jesus that way. I want it to be a little unkempt. He was nomadic in the desert remember and of course you probably won't see his ears for his hair. He didn't visit a barber very often and put some curl in his hair just to if you like just to add again more softness to his appearance and we have a nice pleasant depiction and that's one of the ways that you can draw Jesus."