How to Create a Line Drawing From a Photo

Video Transcript

"Welcome everybody, I'm Lars Erik Robinson with Lars Arts: All Around Art-tainment's my slogan. Today we're going to talk about how to line work from another drawing, or from a photo. And what I usually do is maybe this will be more caricaturized. I have a picture here of Kiefer Sutherland, and so what I usually do for creating outline work of a face is you basically you look at the stronger lines that are in the photo here. You look at how it slants. If you know that there's bushy eyebrows there this is a small reference to look at but you basically know that they are bushy right there. You want to create the outside of the face, the outlines of the face, and that's what we're talking about today, how to do outlines of the face. So we got his big chin going right there. We're getting the whole outside outline of the face. Got his ears, you notice it really comes out on the bottom. So outlines basically means the outside of an object. It also can mean the inside which is the outlines of this eye for example, so sometimes it doesn't have to outline the whole thing, it could stop because, as you notice on these eyes, the lines are not that dark on the bottom of his eyelids. 'Cause this is a quick demonstration, I'm just going to basically focus on if you were going to do an outline of portrait for example, and you look at this, you look at a reference, you can tell that where it's darker, that's where you have to do a darker outline. 'Cause it's in the shadow. So once again if you see it in the shadow you do a darker outline right there. That gives you a little demonstration on how to do an outline of a face, and of course this looks a little caricaturized but it's just because it was a demonstration I was showing that for you today. Thank you guys so much for joining me."