How to Draw Dakota Fanning
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Class! Take your pencils and start drawing! Lightly, my peeps! ;) We're doing a three quarters view of a female--the lovely Dakota Fanning! First start with a rectangle that is higher than wide. Draw an oval, maybe even slanted as pictured, a little
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Draw a slanted line from the cranium (forehead) to chin. The jawline I drew slants upward a little to the right. I find these graphic guidelines helps with the mass of the head. So your picture will appear more realistic.
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Draw an oval like in the picture inside the right half of the first oval. At the halfway mark between distance of top of head and bottom of chin, make a line. That is the placement for center of eyes. At the top for eyebrows draw a horizontal line (b
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Find the hairline and divide her face horizontally into three equal parts--hairline to eyebrows, eyebrows to bottom of nose, and bottom of nose to chin. Draw or sketch the planes of the nose.
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Copy this drawing guide by dividing the lower third of the face into thirds again to locate the mouth. And draw lines to locate the ear. You can take the planes of bottom of nose, slant it up toward the ear, which helps with the ear placement.
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Without the red marks, your picture could look like this... sketchy. Form the basic outlines of eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth. I've added a hint of hair to remind me that I'm drawing Dakota.
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As you sketch, erase the guidelines and continue to add outlines, defining her features even more. Notice I've added lines to her hair, showing me where the hair flows. Using lots of soft lines in the direction of the hair makes it more realistic. Th
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Now you're feeling good because she's almost done. You're shading darker, adding more lines and shadows. In the dark areas where light parts of her hair shows through, take your little kneaded eraser and draw those white hairlines! You can also draw
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It's the finale. You've shaded in more. And don't forget to take a tissue or blender to gently blend in your shading. Hey, keep going because you will happily surprise yourself with the results of How To Draw Dakota Fanning. Watch for more of my tuto
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November 17, 2010
Description: The endearing young star Dakota Fanning has always impressed me with her amazing performances in blockbuster films such as Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, and Charlotte's Web. Her adult roles, I enjoyed her in, are The Secret Life of Bees and most recent, The Twilight Saga. I hear she's done a fantastic job in The Runaways, which I want to see. It doesn't surprise me that she's won numerous awards, but it's fantastic hearing she's the youngest person that's ever been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
