Lesson 1 | Lips are highlights

Welcome to the fifth rule of highlighting the light.

I have as an object our lip. You can take a selfie of your lip and I would like to say something about the lip and what you should know about it. Actually, this sign for a mouth, and please forget about it. It’s only rubbish or childish. A lip works totally differently.

So what we have, we have an upper lip and we have the part beneath. And actually, the upper lip consists of an indent and then two extents. And the part below has … It’s straight here or sometimes it’s a little bit of an indent and outdent. So this depends on the individual physiology. And let’s say it’s like this, okay? And actually, the upper lip goes down and down. And even the other part is going rather down and down. So the middle here can be an indent as well as there can be a small rhythm that goes like this. And then to the other side, something like this. This may happen. And regarding the fourth rule that we should leave things open, I would highly recommend leaving the lines here open. So this means I do this away. So this means never draw a line after this, leave it to your inner image to fulfill the lines. Just give a little bit of a hint in what direction they are going. Just do something like this. Because this is far enough to do for a lip. But at the moment it’s still not a lip. The question is how can we work with the lines that are on the lips? So we have these radial lines and you see they are going to form themselves in these directions. So with these roundings, you can see it here and you can see a similar concept here. So we have the lines that go in this direction.

Okay, this is all about the concept. And now the question is how can we apply the concept totally free to totally new ideas? I want you to draw a ball of fur so with highlighted lines, this is not so complicated because I show you here. A highlighted line is a line that has pressure and less pressure and less and more. Okay? Do you understand this? So I want you to draw but rapidly, something like a ball of fur with a mouth on it.

So, meaning that here you can draw, you know, the upper lip goes down again up and down. Here it’s straight, but here again up, down, up, something like this. Something like this. Okay. And now I have the form and now I can pronounce it. Okay. And then I can do all this shading here with more lines like this. And for the rest, I just do not want to add anything but lines that have different gradients for thickness. So that with this freckling here, small parts here and here up. Sorry, small parts here. And they go out, like, the lines of the lip itself. Okay. And yeah, maybe this is enough, not more. Maybe it’s a little bit weird, but why not do this? But the thing I want to do from you is that you have lines that have bolder and fainter parts, as we have here, even. Bolder and fainter? Bolder and fainter. You can trace maybe your very own lines that you did before and do them later. So at the moment, I think that’s it. Happy sketching. If you want to see how I colorize this, stay on. Otherwise, do your selfie of your lip and do a sketching by yourself.

Happy sketching.