Mouth of a Baby

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Brenda Hoddinott

P-13 INTERMEDIATE: PEOPL E

In this project, you draw the slightly open mouth of a baby, by first sketching fivecircular shapes to represent its five basic forms. When compared to the mouth of anolder child or an adult, a babys mouth is proportionately smaller and has fuller lips; inaddition, the five basic forms are more pronounced.

This project is divided into the following two sections:

CIRCLING MOUTH PROPORTIONS: You first sketch five circular shapes, tohelp establish the proportions of a frontal view of a babys mouth. You thenoutline the lips by connecting the outer sections of the rounded shapes.

FORMING A BABYS LIPS WITH SHADING: You add shading to the fivecircular shapes to create a babys mouth that appears three-dimensional.

Suggested supplies include 2H, HB, 2B, and 4B pencils, vinyl and kneaded erasers, a pencil sharpener, a sandpaper block, and good quality drawing paper.

6 PAGES - 14 ILLUSTRATIONS

This lesson is recommended for artists of all levels. The curriculum is easily implemented intoinstructional programs for home schooling, academic and recreational learning environments.

Published by Hoddinott Publishers, Halifax, NS, Canada 2002 (Revised 2007)


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INTRODUCTION

Young childrens mouths arein constant motion doing suchthings as talking, laughing,chewing, and making funny

faces. Hence, their mouthstake on many shapes. Check out these eight drawings of young childrens mouths.

Figure 1301: Compare the babys mouthfeatured in this project (lower right) tothe mouths of slightly older children.

When compared to the mouth of an older child, a babys mouth is not as wide, has fuller

lips, and has more pronounced individual forms. Figure 1302, demonstrates how a babys mouth widens to accommodate the growing jaw and a mouthful of teeth.

Figure 1302: As a baby grows frominfancy to preschooler, the width of his/her mouth increases more quicklythan the height.

In this project, the five forms of a babys lips are slightly exaggerated to better provideyou with a sense of their three dimensional structures. When you examine the mouths of

babies in real life, you may find that the individual forms look a litt le flatter; however,you need to always be aware of these five forms, in order to draw a believable mouthfor a portrait of a child of any age.

CIRCLING MOUTH PROPORTIONS

In this section, you first sketch five circular shapes, to help to establish the proportionsof a frontal view of a babys mouth. Proportion is the relationship in size of onecomponent of a drawing to another or others. You then outline the lips by connectingthe outer sections of the rounded shapes.

1) Draw three circular shapes as theupper lip.

Begin with the largest and the highest(the one in the center). The two smaller and lower circular shapes (on either sideof the large one) are the same size.

Keep your lines light so you can erasethem later.

Figure 1303
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2) Draw two same sized rounded shapes (orcircles) as the lower lip.

Refer to Figure 1304. Leave a space in thecenter of the five circles if you want themouth to appear slightly open.

To draw a mouth with closed lips, make theupper and lower sets of circles slightlycloser together

3) Use a kneaded eraser to lighten the circles.

4) Lightly outline the upper and lower lips.

The perimeter of the lips is touching the outer edges of the circles (Figure 1305). Note that the two upper circles, on either side of the bigger one, have been cut into by the line that defines the lower edge of the upper lip (Figure 1306).

5) Erase the sections of circles that are outside the lips.

6) Add tiny circles inside each circular shape as highlights.

A highlight identifies the brightest area of a form where light bounces off itssurface; usually the section closest to the light source.

The highlights are sketched on each of the five forms so you remember toleave them white (or light in value)

when you add shading. The lightsource is from the upper right. A light source is the direction from which adominant light originates. A lightsource identifies the light and shadowareas of a drawing subject.

7) Lighten your drawing again with yourkneaded eraser.

Figure 1304

Figure 1305 Figure 1306

Figure 1307


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FORMING A BABYS LIPS WITH SHADING

In this section, you add shading to the five circular shapes to create a babys mouth thatappears three-dimensional.

8) Use your 2H pencil and hatching to lightly shade in the lips.

Refer to Figures 1308 and 1309. Remember, the light source is from the upper right, so the overall shading is darker on the left. The sections on the lower left,that are not part of the circles, need to be even darker. Hatching is a series of lines(called a set) drawn closely together to give the illusion of values.

9) Use a 2B pencil to shade the opening of the mouth (refer to Figure 1310).

10) Use a kneaded eraser, molded to a wedge or point, to lighten the outlines of the lips and the five circular shapes.

Erase the lines around the perimeter of the lips until they are barely noticeable. If you can still see the lines around the five circles, pat them gently with a pointed tip of your kneaded eraser until they are very faint.

11) Use crosshatching graduations to smooth out the shading of the lips.

Refer to Figures 1311 and 1312. Crosshatching is a shading technique in whichone set of lines crosses over (overlaps) another set. A graduation is a continuous

progression of values, from dark to light or light to dark.




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12) Darken the opening of the mouthslightly (Figure 1312).

13) Use crosshatching graduations tocomplete the facial forms aroundthe mouth (Figure 1313).

14) Check over your shading andchange anything you are nothappy with.

Take note that Iagain lightened allthe lines outlining

the lips(especially thosearound theopening) before Iconsidered thedrawing complete.

If a section lookstoo light, add afew morecrosshatchinglines in between

others. If a sectionlooks too dark,use a kneaded eraser to lighten afew of the lines.

CHALLENGE

Try your hand at drawing the wider, more mature mouth of an older child.

To help you get started, refer to Figure1314. Use the same drawing processas in this lesson and the same lightsource.

Figure 1314: An outline of an older childs mouthuses three elongated ovals for the upper lip, andtwo circular shapes for the lower lip.

Figure 1312

Figure 1313


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BRENDA HODDINOTT - BIOGRAPHY

As a self-educated teacher, visual artist, portraitist, forensic artist, and illustrator,Brenda Hoddinott utilizes diverse art media including graphite, technical pen, colored

pencil , chalk pastel , charcoal, cont crayon, and oil paints.

My philosophy on teaching art is to focus primarily on theenjoyment aspects while gently introducing the technicaland academic. Hence, in creating a passion for the subjectmatter, the quest for knowledge also becomes enjoyable.

>Brenda Hoddinott<

Born in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Brenda grew up in the small town of Corner Brook.She developed strong technical competencies with a personal commitment to self directed learning, and the aid of assorted Learn to Draw books. During Brendastwenty-five year career as a self-educated civilian forensic artist, numerous criminalinvestigation departments have employed Brendas skills, including Royal CanadianMounted Police and municipal police departments. In 1992, Brenda was honored with acommendation from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and in 1994, she was awarded a Certificate of Membership from Forensic Artists International.

Her home-based art career included graphic design, and teaching recreational drawingand painting classes. As supervisor of her communitys recreational art department,Brenda hired and trained teachers, and designed curriculum for several childrens art

programs. In 1998, Brenda chose to end her eighteen-year career as an art educator inorder to devote more time to writing, drawing, painting, and developing her websites.

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