How to Draw Jade Thirlwall, Little Mix, Jade Thirlwall
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Draw the oval lightly with a No.2 or HB pencil. Make sure you draw it as seen in the picture.
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Now draw in the bisecting red line to balance her facial features.
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Sketch lightly the crescent red lines for hair line and head mass.
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You can draw in the lines a. for eyebrows, b. for eyes, c. for nose, d. for mouth, and e. for shoulder placements.
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Now draw in Jade's eyebrows and eyes.
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Observe where Jade's features appear in relation to the guidelines. Draw in her nose and mouth.
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Watch closely how her face outline, jawline, chin, and a portion of her ear relate to the guidelines. Make sure you sketch in the earring and her neck.
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This time Jade's hair is broken into two steps. When you sketch in this portion of her hair, add those straight hairs (even at her part) and curves in her hair. Try staying close to the lines that represent the direction & curls of her hair. This wil
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Sketch in the 2nd side of her hair. Make sure you add in the last part of her neckline. As you draw, you will have more accuracy. If you haven't already, you can erase your guidelines.
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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.
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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
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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
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Here is how the tools look. I used the 0.7mm 2B mechanical pencil, 9B pencil, tissue, and the blending stump.
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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
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GO WITH THE FLOW: Basically, you're following the direction of object's shape, that is the hair. The hair will curl around, flow from, and slick to the head. The head is like a curved ball, so the hair extends from that ball by the arrowed directions
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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
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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 chose to shade with pastels. In a few strokes I've got
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Here I used my blending stump to "draw" in more lines, add more shading to her hair, lips, eyes, eyebrows, and neck. I smoothed out areas of her hair and shaded areas of her face (like her cheek) with the blending stump. For a softer blend I used tis
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Sometimes your graphite won't go where you need it to. This happened with Jade's left eye facing you...notice it is smaller. TIP: Put your picture and the reference pic side by side to see mistakes. I corrected her eye in the next step by adding more
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Drawing like this is a gradual buildup. Now her eye looks better. I keep sketching, blending and sketching some more. This time, I first blended the pencil sketches with my toritllon to give a smooth transition of the shadows on her face. I added mor
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Here I added highlights in her hair from looking at the reference picture. You can do this with white pastel, white titanium acrylic or watercolor paint. TIP: Add stray hair strands with highlights after applying background. I also lightened her face
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April 20, 2013
Description: This is the 4th tut on the Little Mix featuring the beautiful and musical Jade Thirlwall. This four-girl British group was formed for Simon Cowell's eighth season "The X Factor." They won and signed with Simon Cowell's label Syco Records and United States Columbia Records. They released their debut album, DNA, on November 19, 2012. I hope you will enjoy drawing this tutorial. Please fav, show your love, and comment. Thank you all. Peace and love to you.
