<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">          OK guys, it’s that time again and you’ll need to roll up your sleeve for this one. Today we’ll be looking at the ear – something I’ve always looked at with disguised. It has always been a challenge to me just for the simple fact that there are bumps, crevices, and hills within that organ even before you get into the inner ear canal. I think this lesson requires a step-by-step drawing tutorial on how to draw the ear from scratch. I know there are tutorials on this website already on drawing the ear from scratch but one can never have enough – especially when it comes to drawing the ear – then again it might just be me. As an added bonus, I’ll supply a quick tutorial on how to draw the lazy man’s ear as well. To me, it’s a very quick sketch and shade fill in that will save you some heartache. Enough of the procrastination, let’s tackle this subject with full force. </span>

<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">                                                                       The pictures below illustrate the basics on how the ear is formed and drawn:</span>

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<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2976" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0006-4-182x300.jpg" alt="Scan0006" width="182" height="300" /> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2977" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0007-3-182x300.jpg" alt="Scan0007" width="182" height="300" /> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2978" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0008-2-182x300.jpg" alt="Scan0008" width="182" height="300" /> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2979" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0009-182x300.jpg" alt="Scan0009" width="182" height="300" /> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2980" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0010-182x300.jpg" alt="Scan0010" width="182" height="300" />

<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">                                                                        We will be following this small tutorial to help us draw out our own ear. </span>

<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">The first part is very simple. All you need to draw is an upside down egg and don’t close it up. Leave it half way open on one end and you have the outside formed…….well sort of.</span>

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2981 aligncenter" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0001-4-242x300.jpg" alt="Scan0001" width="242" height="300" />

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">The next step requires that you add a hook on the inside. Well it’s not a hook fully, but you want to keep in mind that you want to follow the outer rim until you get close to the bottom and stop from there. </span>

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2982 aligncenter" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0002-4-242x300.jpg" alt="Scan0002" width="242" height="300" />

<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">           You want to then add the inside of the ear. It’s kind of hard to explain what type of object you can keep in mind when drawing this but your best bet is to look closely at this or the basic drawing of the ear that was shown earlier on this tutorial or even look at the other tutorials on this website to get a feel of how to draw the ear inners. I would say it looks like a “y” on its side – maybe that could fuel your imagination some. </span>

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2983 aligncenter" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0003-5-242x300.jpg" alt="Scan0003" width="242" height="300" />

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">          After you have figured out the inners of the ear, add a small half circle at the top of the ear. This will be the small indention that is on every ear……yes people, I have looked in the mirror and it’s there and I cannot ignore a small detail like that. I didn’t believe it at first but it’s there – no matter how small or insignificant it is, it’s there. Its main purpose in any drawing or painting is to illustrate a spot where shading can be used and drawn out and making the ear look more realistic.</span>

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<img class="size-medium wp-image-2984 aligncenter" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0004-3-242x300.jpg" alt="Scan0004" width="242" height="300" />

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Next step is easy, take a Col-Erase black pencil or any other non-Sargent color pencil and add some shading to the inner ear. You want to smooth the black lead with a tortillion and then add some Col-Erase pink to the edges of the ear as well as near the bottom. This isn’t required; depending on how the subject is angled and where the light source is coming from, color and shading will vary. It also depends on what the subject is doing. If the subject is running or doing any physical activity that requires their blood to rush to certain areas of the body, they will appear to be more reddish/flushed, or pink. Yes, being an artist requires some knowledge of the anatomy and how it works.

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2985 alignright" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMG_0200-226x300.jpg" alt="IMG_0200" width="226" height="300" /> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2986" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0005-4-242x300.jpg" alt="Scan0005" width="242" height="300" />

I then take Prismacolor beige peach and color the majority of the ear except on the ear rim some just to show some light reflection/glare.

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I then add some Col-Erase brown to diverse areas of the ear to illustrate diverse tone going on. I especially concentrate putting it near or on the ear rim to show shading. I then load it on my computer and finish it by smoothing it out using PaintShop Pro. In case I never told you, the purpose of computer smoothing is to eliminate color pencil scribble. This helps make distracting marks disappear. The price for doing this is it might look blurry some but if you (1) go over it 3 times or more, it should eliminate the majority of it and (2) if you have a background and other entities in the picture, they will take the focus off of it.

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<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2987" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMG_0205-211x300.jpg" alt="IMG_0205" width="211" height="300" /> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2988" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMG_0214-227x300.jpg" alt="IMG_0214" width="227" height="300" /> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2989" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMG_0215-227x300.jpg" alt="IMG_0215" width="227" height="300" />

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">                                                                                          Ready to do the ear of the lazy man way? Well here it is.</span>

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">First step: you guess it, the half opened, upside down egg.</span>

<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2990" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0011-260x300.jpg" alt="Scan0011" width="260" height="300" />

<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">          This step is where the laziness comes in. As you can see, there is really no ear bumps or crevices to deal with here. The only thing you need to know is have a general idea of the ear’s anatomy so that you can apply the shading correctly or at least get the majority correct. Use Col-Erase black pencil to apply the shade or any pencil or color pencil. Anything will do except Sargent’s color pencil; they’re an abomination to God. </span>

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2991 aligncenter" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scan0012-260x300.jpg" alt="Scan0012" width="260" height="300" />

<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">          Ok so we got two colors going on here. I first applied Col-Erase pink. I only applied it sparingly in certain areas. Nowhere in particular, I just wanted to spread the color in certain areas to illustrate various tones. With that being said, I then added, you guess it, Prismacolor beige peach to the whole ear. The picture looks a little rough and amateurish but no worries, we got one more step!</span>

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<img class="size-medium wp-image-2992 aligncenter" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMG_0219-224x300.jpg" alt="IMG_0219" width="224" height="300" />

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">The last and final step is of course, computer smoothing. Look at the computer smoothing picture in contrast to the last rough, looking color pencil picture. Do you see why I prefer to smooth it out on computer? You could do it manually but it not only requires blending with either a white pencil or a colorless blender, it requires that you color the designated color harder into the subject which I’m not still too crazy about. Maybe one day I get the courage to do so but at the moment, I’m content with the computer smoothing. Hopefully you guys can find some contentment with this technique for now. See you guys in the next lesson!</span>

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2993 aligncenter" src="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMG_0220-224x300.jpg" alt="IMG_0220" width="224" height="300" />

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