How To Draw The HARDEST Facial Feature (Hint: rhymes with 'south')

Summary by Krater

This video teaches artists how to correctly draw and shade mouths from various angles by breaking them down into planes and forms like the upper lip, lower lip, philtrum, and teeth. It concludes with tips on using these forms as a foundation for more stylistic or realistic artwork.

From the video

Answers: How do you draw and shade a mouth from different angles?

• drawing lips
• shading mouths
• facial planes
• mouth anatomy
• perspective in drawing
• lip curves and contours
• drawing teeth

What it concludes

• The mouth is not just lips and should be thought of as a 3D volume or mound, not flat.
• The upper lip is angled downward while the lower lip is angled upward.
• The middle of the mouth, or line between the lips, is not flat or straight and has subtle undulations.
• The pillars of the mouth act as transitional planes between the lips and the chin.
• Teeth are deeply recessed in shadow and have a more aggressive curvature than the lips.