Level up your drawing skills in this easy to follow, step-by-step class! In this class, you will learn about the different materials and techniques used to create realistic drawings. This class project will revolve around drawing one of the most interesting features of the human face: the Mouth! However, these skills that you will learn from this class can be interchangeable to draw anything realistically, especially drawing portraits and faces!

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This specific class will consolidate your understanding of how to draw lips and teeth with a lot of detail, as well as give you some understanding of how I create photo-realistic skin texture using a pencil.

Starting with learning how to sketch the reference image to creating hyperrealistic details with a pencil, this class will improve your confidence and technical artistic ability.

Class outcomes:

- Produce a copy of the provided reference image and submit a photo of this to the class projects

- Challenge: Take a photo of your own mouth, and using the tips, materials and advice in this class, produce a drawing of it and submit this to the class projects

Your class project is to draw a realistic mouth - please see the attached image as a reference. Please feel free to share your drawing in the Class Project gallery

Recommended materials:

Paper:

- Winsor & Newton Paper

Pencils:

- Mechanical Pencil 0.5mm (for sketching)

- Faber Castell Pencils (for shading)

- Black Pencil (optional)

Lead:

- Derwent 0.5mm lead HB/2B

Eraser:

- Electric eraser pen

- Electric eraser replacements

- Kneadable eraser (optional)

- Thin eraser

Blending

- Blending Stumps

- Makeup Brushes

- Q-Tips

Additional tools:

- White acrylic pen

The reference image used can be seen below :)