When drawing a mouth always start with a line, if the mouth is closed. We will unfortunately not be covering open mouth today, however, I will definitely go through it at a latter date.
Here is the basic start to any forward facing mouth.
Yep... It's a line. Fun huh?
On to the line, we are not going to draw the outline of the lips unless your character is wearing lipstick. Instead build up the shadows through shading and then add colour latter.
Tada! A mouth with only shading. Now I will take you through a side on mouth. In this one I will add an extra step showing addition of 'colour' (not actually colour as I am using pencil).
Notice how the top lip juts out further than the bottom one, and has a sharper curve to it. Make sure you show the concave curve under the lips. This is how the chin starts. Again, to show shape add shading.
The light if from above, will shadow the under-curve of the top lip, and in the process the very top of the bottom lip. The bottom lip shadows the top of the chin.
In this photo, I have added colour. Notice that the colour doesn't cover up the shading, it intensifies it. To do this simply make your shadows darker where ever there is colour.
The final of my lip tutorial will be a three quarter view of a mouth. This, like the nose, is for some, the most difficult position.
However, if you look closely at my drawing you will notice that there is a simple way to make it look realistic.
Just make the side further away from you have a sharper slope. In other words, one side of the mouth is longer that the other. But. Make sure that the line you start with is level. Don't make either side of the mouth higher or lower.
So, again, we have finished a basic feature tutorial. Looking forward to meeting you again when the tutorial on eyes is up.
Cheers guys,
meg
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