boardsbeginnerFirst attempt at realistic lips
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drawn in 1 hour 32 min with Lascaux Sketch Classic
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nekodesu (Apr 28, 2005)
Bleh...first time doing lips....reference: http://www.lichtensteiger.de/Images/lips.jpg
Any suggestion on how to improve this?
nekodesu (Apr 28, 2005)
drawn in 44 min
Fin_beast (Apr 28, 2005)
Don't draw what you think you see... Draw what you see. :)
The only tip I can give is, think of the top and bottom lip as two seperate things.
WhoopsieDaisy (edited Apr 28, 2005)
well...i'm no expert, but here are a few things...

1)the upper lip is almost -always- darker than the bottom one...you put too many light highlights on the top lip...

2)the actualy amount of 'lip' of the corners is small...you should extend the almost blackish shading in a thin line pretty much all the way to the corners

3) the placement of your main highlight on the bottom lip is prolly in a little too far...the highlight is where the light would hit it...and unless the light is coming from above, it would probably be a little closer to the outside edge...

4) in your reference, there is more curve to the top lip

that's all i can think of for now...hope i was helpful ><
nekodesu (Apr 28, 2005)
Okay...thanks for the suggestions. And I'm not used to using references when I'm drawing so I tend to kind of make up things. ^^;; Anyways, I'll fix this later.
littlebunnyfu (edited Apr 28, 2005)
the teeth are pretty good, i thought.

it sucks that they're using the old make-up trick of trying to make lips look even bigger by drawing the initial line outside the natural lip... I figure if you ain't angelina jolie, live wif it ^_^
nekodesu (Apr 28, 2005)
drawn in 48 min
Errm...I tried my best to fix it....but I think I might make some more changes later.
PS (Apr 28, 2005)
looks nice, but maybe try to sharpen it up a little bit
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