<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">          Ok guys, round three of the facial feature tutorial for color pencils; another quick but effective one. Let’s hop on it. The mouth is a fairly simply organ to draw. There are differences in both a man’s and woman’s lips and we will look at both differences and approach both contrasts in diverse ways. As a child the mouth was simple to draw; just draw a simple horizontal line across the bottom of the face and call it a day. As you progress into an artist, you understood that a lip formation was necessary not to mention teeth and gums. We’ll look at three examples and hopefully you’ll understand the method. With that being said I welcome any veteran artist to supply any suggestions to me that would help me – there is a certain way how I do the mouth and if someone has a different approach, I’m willing to listen.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2951 aligncenter" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0001-2-300x145.jpg" alt="Scan0001" width="300" height="145" /></span>

<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">The first picture shows the basics. This, in my opinion, is how you start drawing out the mouth of a female. Female lips are full and the top and bottom lips need to be illustrated fully. Keep in mind this will be in color pencil so make sure you make the lines lite or use a Blu Tack erasure to lighten the marks later. </span>

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In this picture, you got two things going on here: first off you want to darken where the opening and closing of lips are. Here I use a tortillion to smudge the line to show some soft shading. I also use it at both of the corners of the mouth. I then start to add Col-Erase Scarlet Red to the top lip. I think it should be mention as I did in previous articles that using Col-Erase color pencils or Prismacolor pencils will show up way better on a scan picture then Sargent color pencil. I’m so done with that product. No wonder you can get them real cheap – you get what you pay for.

[caption id="attachment_2955" align="alignnone" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-2955 size-medium" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0003-3-300x145.jpg" alt="Scan0003" width="300" height="145" /> Before computer smoothing[/caption]

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[caption id="attachment_2954" align="alignnone" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-2954 size-medium" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0013-300x145.jpg" alt="Scan0013" width="300" height="145" /> After computer smoothing[/caption]

<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">OK so in this picture, the lips are basically done. I added more markings to the lips and left some areas white to show glare and highlight. It’s safe to say that in this stage, you would burnish the picture. Just in case you forgot, burnishing is when you take a white pencil or any real light pencil (Prismacolor Cream or Cloud Blue are also good burnishing tools) and color over it to mimic a blending. Also don’t forget, you can you a colorless blender as well.</span>

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2956 aligncenter" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0004-2-300x145.jpg" alt="Scan0004" width="300" height="145" />

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">Here’s another example; this time we’ll do a mouth illustrating a smile. We start off simple at first. It really looks like much is not going on here; even no teeth are drawn in but it gets more complex as we move along. </span>

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">Here we focus on forming the gums and teeth with Col-Erase Black pencil and Pink pencil. When forming the teeth, do not draw straight, continuous lines. You want to break up the lines some on each one to illustrate some shading and angle. Draw a little bit of it, stop and move done some if room permitting (also use the Col-Erase black pencil). You want to add some markings at the bottom of the teeth so it helps show form of the teeth. When forming the gums make sure you are forming arches near the top with the pink pencil.</span>

[caption id="attachment_2958" align="alignnone" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-2958 size-medium" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0006-2-300x181.jpg" alt="Scan0006" width="300" height="181" /> Before computer smoothing[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2959" align="alignnone" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-2959 size-medium" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0014-300x181.jpg" alt="Scan0014" width="300" height="181" /> After computer smoothing[/caption]

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">            In this last picture of this example, I added Col-Erase Scarlet Red to the majority of the lip taking care to lead some spots un-touch to illustrate glare. Also, I did the upper lip different this time; I did the markings horizontal while still keeping the traditional vertical lines on the bottom. Usually the top lip has a darker tone and lesser glare then the lower lip. Usually I keep that rule in mind when doing the lips and that’s why I tend to stray to this technique of coloring the lips.</span>

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">The last example we’ll look at is a man’s lip. Men’s lips are less fuller and smaller. We approach these lips by drawing the shaded parting of the lips and smaller top lip, but we only add some shading near the bottom of the lip to create the illusion that there is a bottom lip but its formation isn’t necessary.</span>

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">          We then take a CLEAN tortillion and shade the bottom shade of the lip (in case I didn’t mention, Col-Erase pencils can blend and shade like regular B&amp;W graphite pencils). While you still have the tortillion, smudge/shade the line that separates the top and bottom lip. You then want to add color to the upper lip. Start off first with Prismacolor Blush Pink at the corners and then extend out just a little. You then want to switch pencils and color the rest of the top lip with Prismacolor Beige Peach; you then want to go back and lightly color in some blush pink over the whole top lip. After that’s done, add more shading to form the bottom lip; use Prismacolor Dark Brown.</span>

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">The last thing you can do is the “Carlos” method if you want. Burnish it and then load it up on your computer and digitally smooth it out if that’s the look you’re going for. Other than that, you’re done. See you guys in the next tutorial!</span>

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