How To Draw Face Contour

In this video lesson i demonstrate a continuous line contour drawing technique.
How to draw face contour. Contour line art is a method of drawing where you draw only the outline of an object without any shading. If you want to draw lifelike portraiture knowing how to draw facial features is essential. We see that there are three essential arguments in cv2 findcontours function. Below artist and instructor lee hammond shares tips and techniques for drawing realistic faces with graphite pencil excerpted from her book lee hammond s all new big book of drawing.
To draw all contours pass 1 and remaining arguments are color thickness etc. Notice how the eyes are set back from the front edge of the face and how the lips and mouth recede at a diagonal towards the neck. Picking a spot and continuing until the drawing is complete. Continue to draw a line along the length of your jaw and repeat step four above to slim down your nose.
Now that we have an idea of the location of the facial features we can draw them in using contour lines. While most people like to draw lines we feel that the better way is to dot the face while contouring a round face. The eyes nose. For example if you wanted to do a contour line drawing of a pear you d simply draw the outline of the pear add a stem and stop there.
Drawing a face from a life model i start at the nose and draw the entire face and neck without lifting the pen. Contour drawing often uses the taking a line for a walk approach. Along the way the relative sizes shapes and directions of lines are noted and copied a bit at a time. First one is source image second is contour retrieval mode third is contour approximation method and it outputs the image contours and hierarchy.
Contour actually means outline in french which is where the name comes from. In this step by step guide lee will teach you how to recreate every aspect of your model s face. Contours is a python list of all the contours in the image each individual contour is a numpy array of x y coordinates of boundary points of the object. Draw a line on your nose using a contouring stick in a lighter shade.
We ll also add a bit of shading here to make the face have a sense of form. It can also be used to draw any shape provided you have its boundary points.