Sketch realistic lips with pencil with this how-to video and step-by-step drawing instructions. Simple drawing for kids and beginners.
Please see the drawing tutorial in the video below
You can refer to the simple step-by-step drawing guide below
Step 1:
Draw a light horizontal line with your pencil.
Step 2:
Draw a short vertical line down the middle of the first line. Lightly draw this line as we will erase it later.
Step 3:
Draw a “v” shape just above the short vertical line we created. This will be the top part of the lips, aka the Cupid’s Bow.
Step 4:
Lightly draw lines extending from the letter “v” to the end of the first line.
This will create the shape of the upper lip, so you can change the outline to suit the lip you’re drawing.
TIP: Draw the outer contours of the upper lip gently and softly. Creating a very bold and bold line for the upper lip can make it look less realistic.
Step 5:
Draw a curved line for the lower lip.
Step 6:
Draw a concave line in the center of the lips, where the upper and lower lips meet.
Step 7:
Lighten the line where the top and bottom lips meet, along the horizontal line we drew first in step 1.
For this tutorial, we’ll keep the line fairly straight for the sake of simplicity, but each lip has a different curve or shape to the line.
Step 8:
Erase the short vertical line in the middle of the lips.
Step 9:
Now we will start shading the lower lip.
Lips have longitudinal wrinkles. That’s why when you’re shading, follow the up and down strokes.
With the shadows, I want to start lightly, and as I develop the drawing, I add darker values little by little.
Also, the smudge helps a lot when you first shade in the drawing. I only used my fingers, but you can use a rolled up piece of tissue or a smudger.
Step 10:
Shade the upper lip in the same way: Make soft, gentle strokes in an up and down direction. And blur to create that soft blend gradation.
TIP: My drawing might look messy right now, but I’ll be adding more layers so I’m not too worried about it. Drawings always go through this phase and it is important to keep moving forward and not end here. The more time you spend on a drawing, the more multidimensional it becomes.
Step 11:
In this step, I highlight the middle part of the lips near the depression and darken the horizontal line of the mouth.
This horizontal line will be one of the darkest parts of the lips, so we will gradually deepen it as we go along.
Step 12:
For this step, I shaded the corners of my lips, as this will be another dark area of the lips.
I also darken the lower part of the lip where the lower lip meets the chin. This area is concave and often has many shadows in it.
Step 13:
I shaded my lips more to make it darker. I also draw more lines (wrinkles) on the lips in an up and down direction.
Step 14:
I added more bold values to the center of the lips.
Step 15:
In this step, I created some shadows for the midline (the slit just above the lips) and added a shadow near the chin (though not necessary since we are focusing on the lips).
