Now we're going to start to hone in the drawing a bit further and define the features a bit more. So I'm using paint mixed with less medium now mostly just pure oil paint. And I'll begin to just shift things around and add some more concrete lines in as necessary. So looking at the shape of the mouth, and and looking at distances, I can tell that the upper lip needs to be moved up slightly. So again, if you make a mistake, I mean it's not really even a mistake at this stage. You know, as you discover something new.

You can just shift it you can erase it with your rag and just, you know, shift things around a little bit. So moving the upper lip up a bit and looking at the exact shapes, looking at where the point is, on the width of the lips, and and looking at the way the back of the curves like this, the lower lip has a certain couple of angles to it here and seller, the shadow that I've put in might be a bit overstated, creating a bit of a weird shape. Now when I do a vertical plumb line from the back corner of the mouth and align it for vertically with the pupil, I can see that I'll actually need to pull this corner out a little bit further. So there's the form shadow comes down across the jaw and is actually on the form of the face.

So there's a small little form shadow The chin and then I'll use pure paint to gently delineate the line of the jaw. Also, at this stage, I can round out some of the edges just a little bit. And as I go into my eyes, I'll really be looking for the angles, the specific angles that are created in the eyelid. So there's three very straight angles that I'm seeing, and this is discussed in the handout that I encourage you to download Load the pupil is half covered at the top by the eyelid and that helps create a more relaxed look to the eyes. And there's the under plane of the eyelid as well. So we might sometimes be tempted to leave out the lower eyelid.

Thinking maybe it will like make it look like the bags under the eyes or something. But in fact that helps anchor the eye onto the face. Now I'm using the back of my brush here to scratch out the little light ridge of thickness to the lower rim of the eye. As I look at the geometric shapes between the two And the eyebrow, I can see that I just need to move the eyebrows down a little bit the space between the eye and the eyebrow is just a little bit narrower. Continue to define the eyebrows with angled straight lines not with a big generic curve and look for a softer edge towards the front of the eyebrow and maybe a harder edge somewhere else perhaps towards the back of the eyebrow. Again, I'm using the back of my brush to scratch out a little bit of a space between the lines in the eye of the island.

And then looking at this other eye, again, defining it with angles, straight lines that really describe the angles. Getting a little shadow underneath on the lower eyelid and moving that eyebrows down slightly to adjust the distance between the eyebrow and the eye in the front of this eyebrow, it actually sort of turns into the shadow and sort of comes up right against the edge of the front of the eyelid. And continuing to look at the angles that create like the cheekbone, the angle of the eye socket, we could just the shape of the form shadow on the nose, it comes down a little bit lower than I had it. Form shadows are very important on noses. A lot of the time since the nose is so soft and round, it's easy to not really perceive the form shadow that's occurring on this lower edge of the nose.

But really look for it, find it and put it in because it really improves the drawing of the nose. I was just checking to see the vertical alignment of that point where it comes to on the face and I can see that vertically. This point comes to about in the center of the nose here, so I just moved it over a little bit. Also, I wanted to find this curl on this side a little bit more than that nice curl there, and there's a cast shadow coming off of it onto the body. And as I work with that area, I feel that the shirt could just pull back a little bit on the shoulder and looking for the angle changes in the line of this shirt will really help describe the form of the body