CHAPTER 2 | COPYING SOMEONE’S PROFILE

Characteristic of a person’s profile is mainly the line from forehead to nose, mouth and chin. For the next exercise, ask a family member or friend to pose for you ‘en profil’ (face from the side) or take/choose a photo of a profile.

Exercise: Try to draw only somebody’s profile from the forehead to the nose, mouth, chin and the transition to the neck. Start in the so-called broken drawing style (image): in the broken drawing style you first indicate shapes and directions in loose straight lines (left). Only then connect the lines with natural curves (right).

EXTRA: If you draw two profiles opposite each other you can play a joke with the residual shape between them.