Portrait Drawing Tip 69
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How to portray the model's age
As a Drawing Academy tutor, I often receive portraits for critique where artists struggle to portray the model's age. Some portraits look older and artists do not know why. Also, when drawing old people, artists usually concentrate too much on skin wrinkles, which often results in "spooky" faces. There are several things a portrait artist has to know to depict the model's age believably. Above all, this comes down to proportions and anatomy. Did you know that people with different ages have different head and face proportions? Do you know what the difference is? Also, do you know how facial muscles influence wrinkles on a face? All this information is provided in the Life Drawing Academy Correspondence Course
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