Drawing Tips- Realistic Face Features - Achieve a Likeness in Pencil Portraits - Eyes Nose & Mouth

How do realistic portrait artists create a convincing likeness?    • GET A CONVINCING LIKENESS      • START HERE- PORTRAIT LESSONS   In this pencil drawing tutorial I focus on the most important facial features: the eyes, nose, mouth and surrounding facial shading. Using Anya Taylor-Joy as the reference, I explain the subtle adjustments that help create realism and improve likeness in portrait drawing. If you’re learning realistic pencil portraiture, these are the areas worth studying carefully before moving on to hair and finer details. ► Eyes ► Nose ► Mouth ► Face shading ► Creating likeness #PortraitDrawing #PencilDrawing #DrawingTutorial #realisticdrawing 📌 Materials Used: – Graphite pencils (HB 2B 8B) and Faber Castell Polychromos Black199 (for her jumper and jacket) – Blending tools - Derwent blending stump: 2 ply paper tissue/ toilet roll, it's very soft: Makeup brushes -- Erasers - Faber Castell 'Perfection Eraser' and 'Tombo Mono Eraser' – Paper- Faber Castell Mixed Media pad 250 g/m smooth drawing paper, This was my first time of using this and like it very much, I used the back of the paper as it has less texture for a smoother skin result. Chapters 0:03 Mapping out features 0:07 Use a tracing you take from your reference photo as a measuring tool 0:28 The eye tips 1:45 The lip tips 3:32 Eyes continued 4:14 Eyebrows continued 4:44 Face shading tips 5:02 Nose shading 5:40 Getting the hairline in before shading the forehead 6:01 Nostrils 6:04 lips tips continued 6:43 Nose shading continued 6:56 Lips continued 7:50 Finished portrait close up features