How to Draw Emeli Sande, Emeli Sande

Artist: catlucker / March 22, 2013
How to Draw Emeli Sande, Emeli Sande

Step 1.


Draw the oval lightly with a No.2 or HB pencil. Make sure you draw it as seen in the picture.

Step 2.


Now draw in the bisecting line to balance her facial features.

Step 3.


Sketch lightly the crescent red lines for hair line and head mass.

Step 4.


You can draw in the lines a. for eyebrows, b. for eyes, c. for nose, and d. for mouth.

Step 5.


Now draw Emeli's eyebrows and eyes.

Step 6.


Examine and notice how her nose appears in relation to the guidelines. Draw in her nose.

Step 7.


Since there are more details in her mouth and her face is at a different angle, I made this separate. Sketch in her mouth.

Step 8.


Now draw in the profile of her face, her cheek, jawline, and her ear.

Step 9.


Now look closely at how the lines of her hair flow with the guidelines. Take your time. Patience is your best friend because with it, you'll be able to complete your drawing. If you haven't already, you can now erase your guidelines. The lines you co   

Step 10.


I made this line drawing especially for you if you don't want to do the pencil shading and blending part. Otherwise, let us continue to the pencil drawing part.

Step 11.


I didn't want to skip this. The first picture shows how to hold your pencil for Overhand (great for writing & details) and Underhand (great for shading large areas in wide strokes). You can practice tone shading and take it a step further with the To   

Step 12.


Here is how the tools look. I used the 0.7mm 2B mechanical pencil, 9B pencil, tissue, and the blending stump.

Step 13.


Best thing you can do when drawing hair is to establish the general shape then work in the main strands of hair by holding your pencil at a 45 degree angle for stroking and coverage. Then, as in the third picture, you can work in more details. But he   

Step 14.


EYELASH STROKES! Here's a little tip to help draw those lovely lashes. Yes, those pesky little lashes that look like spider legs are drawn a certain way and they taper (you can add thickness to the roots as you finish stroking them in). The picture t   

Step 15.


Here is the outline done with a 0.7mm mechanical pencil. Look closely and see if your lines look something like this. You can erase if certain areas like the eyes or nose don't line up. Take you kneaded eraser and dab off the shadow outlines or dark    

Step 16.


I did a little bit more shading in the hair and darkened other areas with my 9b Pencil before applying pastel.

Step 17.


This is the first start with the pastel application. If you do the whole picture in a pencil sketch, this is where you would sketch in small circles or lines to shade the areas. It would take hours upon hours to cover all that area with a pencil. I c   

Step 18.


Here I used my blending stump to "draw" in more lines, add more shading to her hair and face. The areas I needed to whiten, I used a kneaded eraser (on her lips and under her eyebrows.

Step 19.


I sketched in more shading into her cheek lines and darkened her eyebrows and eye mascara with my 9B and 0.7mm pencils. With the 0.7mm mechanical pencil (HB lead), I defined her short hair. I did a lot of smoothing with a small tortillon at her cheek   

Step 20.


Drawing like this is a gradual buildup. I keep sketching, blending and sketching some more. This time, I added more dark tones and details to her hair, face, and neck with a 9B graphite pencil. For fine details in her hairline, eyebrows, and eyes, I    

Step 21.


This is an example on how Emeli looks without the digital blend on her skin. Basically, the shadow transition on her cheek line is not smooth. Check out the next step on how the digital blending makes a big difference. Also information on highlight a   

Step 22.


Here I added lots of highlights on her hair from the reference picture. You can do this with white pastel, white titanium acrylic or watercolor paint. I still darkened the outline of her face and cheek areas, along with her neckline. I got a smoother   

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Artist: catlucker
Date Added: March 22, 2013
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Description: Emeli Sande is a Bristish recording artist and songwriter. Her album, "Our Version of Events," peaked at number one in the UK, soon after its release in February 2012, it's become the the best-selling album of 2012 in the UK, with over 1 million sales. This extremely talented and beautiful artist performed in both the opening and closing of the London Olympics. (Wikipedia notes) I hope you enjoy this tutorial. Please fav, show your love, and comment. Thank you all. Peace and love to you.

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