We're still drawing her
Here's the drawing so far...
Now that we have the lower half of the face drawn,
let's work on the upper part. To get the forehead and
the hairline, we'll continue with the facial contours we
started on the previous page.
your lap desk out and clip your unfinished caricature of
the woman on it and get comfortable in front of your
computer. Sharpen your 5B pencil and have your eraser
handy. If you'd like to print out the photo we'll be
working with, go ahead.
you see in the photo that she has a bit a of a widow's
peak? That's where the hairline comes to a bit of a
point. Let's find that and get the top of the forehead
marked. Remember that the eyes are at the horizontal
midpoint of the head? Let's check that here. Using your
pencil, on the photo, measure from right between her
eyes to the bottom of her chin. Now, holding that
measure, slide the pencil up so the chin-end of the
measure is right between her eyes. Now do you see that
her forehead is a bit shorter than the measure? We'll
use that measurement as the height of her forehead. On
your caricature, measure from in between her eyes to the
bottom of the chin. Slide the pencil up to between her
eyes and make a mark slightly below where you measured
to. That's where her hairline will be. On the left side
face contour can you continue the line to where you
marked the forehead? I'd start at the forehead mark and
meet up with the face contour. This side is easy because
it's a pretty uninterrupted curve.
The left contour and some hairline.
see in the above image that I already started to draw
the hairline. See that right angle shape that the
hairline makes on the left side of the forehead? I noticed that the angle started
right about at the corner of her right eye. So I sighted
up from the corner of her right eye, and when I got
parallel with the widow's peak I'd drawn I made a mark.
then I drew the contour of the hairline connecting the
two points. Now it should be a relatively easy task to
follow the contour of the hairline down to the right
side of the head. Go ahead and try and finish the
hairline and the side of the head on your drawing.
we had wanted to give her a massive forehead, we
wouldn't measure for where the hairline should go. We'd
just guess and put the hairline somewhere miles above
the eyes. Personally, though, I think giving her a large
forehead would be a mistake. Large foreheads are one of
those things that make people look younger because
infants seem to have large, underdeveloped heads. Other
things that make people look young: short noses, small
chins, large eyes, and no cheek bones.