How to draw lips with a pencil step by step

Now we will look at how to draw lips with a pencil in stages. First we need to look at the original photo and determine the light source. It comes from the top right corner. Now we carefully examine the lips, a very strong shadow is visible under the lower lip and at the tips of the lips, as well as under the upper lip, there is also a glare on the lower lip from the light. Now you can start drawing. The original of this lesson is a video that is at the very bottom, I would recommend watching it first, everything is shown in great detail there. They just asked me to make a lesson, and only not a video, whoever wants to watch the video, who doesn’t want to, draw from the pictures.

Step 1. We need a more or less soft pencil, you can take HB or 2B and, lightly pressing on it, draw a contour.

Step 2. Draw the contour of the lips and define the areas of the lips with ovals.

Step 3. Now we stroke the upper lip in the lower part. To make a continuous monotone tone, you need to practice a little (there is a lesson just hatching (press), and gradient hatching (press), you at least just look at it). Those. we apply the strokes so close that they merge, while there should be a smooth transition between the white sheet and the dark tone (the pressure on the pencil decreases, as a result of which the intensity of the strokes decreases).

Step 4. Draw a shadow under the lower lip.

STEP 5. If you have, then you need to take a very soft pencil, for example, 6B, if not, then you should just press hard on the existing one. We make a dark area near the tips of the lips, under the upper lip and under the lower lip, where the dark area is large and extended by a small strip under the lip, to see it, look at the previous picture, and then this one. In the video, this moment is generally without questions, everything is clear.

Step 6. Make a dark area on the upper lip.

Step 7. We hatch the upper lip first with a solid light tone, then on top of it we make darker areas along the upper edge of the lips, the middle part of the lip, while making a shadow transition so that there is no clear separation, this is a dark area, this is light. There should be small smooth tone transitions. Then we stroke the lower lip from top to bottom.

Step 8. Apply another layer of hatching to the left to the middle part of the lips, make a smooth transition from below the lips, i.e. we make the very bottom dark, then we weaken the pressure on the pencil and we get a transition. We darken a little on the right, take the eraser and make a highlight.

Step 9 We make shadows around the mouth.

Step 10 We wipe some places with an eraser. This is the area on top of the upper lip on the left and make a highlight on the right under the upper lip.

So, for any drawing with a pencil, including lips, it is necessary to determine the light source, then determine the light and dark areas, after that just move on to drawing.