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Now let's take a look at drawing the mouth and the lips, and I'm not going to deny that there is quite

a fair bit of complexity in understanding the mouth, the mouth obviously isn't just the lips and an open space

in between them.

There's a lot of anatomy behind it.

But I'm going to do my best to kind of simplify it for you and help you grasp it in a very straightforward

way.

So first off, we're going to start with looking at the skeleton, and when we have the human skeleton here,

we have this very round section for our top jaw section, right.

So it's very round.

And from a top view or in a basic form view, it's very much shaped like half a sphere, basically.

So we have something like this, and it kind of wraps around, and our top jaw section where our teeth

would be here, kind of

probably not at that scale, something like that, is really round.

It's a very, very round section. Let's just draw in these extra elements to help us get the feeling,

just a very quick sketch here.

So it's a very rround section, and that's the first important thing we want to recognize, is really how round

and how curved the top jaw is, right.

Because that has implications for how we want to draw the lips.

Notice this curve. Right.

How curved the top jaw is, and of course the bottom jaw is equally curved.

And then when we're thinking about the bottom jaw, right, it connects down here, the bone starts connecting here,

it comes down to the front like this.

And from the other side like that, and then it has the bottom teeth in it, and it is also very round.

It's very much a basic view.

here. It is also very round and very cylindrical in a sense, right.

Not a full cylinder, but half a cylinder.

So very much like this.

And this is the basic form and the basic shape of the mouth that I really want you to constantly grasp.

This is really cylindrical from below the nose, just to kind of, before we hit the base of the chin.

Well even the chin itself is quite cylindrical, and then it moves up into the other bone structures.

So underneath the face, we really have this cylinder type of structure, I'm just going to reinforce it in blue here.

We want to know that this section of the mouth really is, very, very round.

OK, very, very round. It curves around. From a bottom view- if this were the jaw here, the mouth would be curving

around like this, it's quite a lot more extreme than

you think it is. And even right now, go ahead and feel your mouth, close your mouth, feel your mouth and just

feel how round it is, how round that section of the face is, if you put your thumb here and forefinger here,

just kind of feel that section out.

It's very, very round.

Here is the bottom lip over here, alright,

OK.

I think, I think we should actually.

I think we have that down right, that it's a very round, right, it's a very much circular.

OK.

So keep that in mind- very round.

I know I've said it a million times, just it's so crucial that you remember this.

So when we know that, when we understand that, and when we want to then draw the mouth on top of the head,

we want to always then start by imagining,

So here is, kind of, our head, our basic head form.

It's just another, just another head, we know where to place the mouth, which is that third, but we want

to remember that, no matter what the expression is, that main mouth line generally will always curve

looks like a smile right now.

When we do facial expression and emotion you will know how to manipulate it a bit more.

But if I just add corners like that, it doesn't necessarily imply a smile, but we want to know that there's

that roundness, right, that the line should always generally have a curve, especially at a three quarter angle.

OK.

So first big rule: it's round, the jaw, the front of the jaw where the teeth are, really is round.

Of course we've seen those cartoons, where they have the kind of, little granny's teeth, or the electronic

clicker ones, you know, that they're usually chopping.

I don't know why they were in old school cartoons.

The thing is some kind of toy, and you wind it up in the teeth clatter.

Cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck.

I think I've pushed the point hard enough, and you're probably tired of hearing me talk about how round

the jaw is.

Anyway, let's move on to the basic forms of the lips then.

So the lips themselves are essentially five types of cylinders.

Let's just do a non dynamic version, which is going to look crazy, and then we'll add a dynamic version.

The non-dynamic version, would probably look something like this, one cylinder there, one cylinder in

the middle, this is the top lip, and then one cylinder here, and then the bottom lip would be two cylinders.

One cylinder here, and one cylinder here, I'm just going to darken those

cylinder front angles, just so we get an idea of, how the cylinders are connecting to each other, or

how the cylinders face each other in a sense.

Actually.

That's kind of a little bit too steep, more like that. Alright.

So we have these five cylinders. When we start making them more dynamic, we can then start thinking about

we typically know the lip shape to be.

And so we'll use our dynamic, type of, cylinder shapes, bending the cylinders in this particular kind of

way,

can actually make this one a little bit pointier here.

And these are essentially the fundamental structures that we want to have in mind when we're drawing

the lips. I'm drawing this mouth quite open over here.

OK.

And let's just a duplicate this and

when we draw lines over this for the mouth, we're just going to do something very elementary here.

we imagine those anatomical, very well-known sections, over there, kind of, just following the forms,

connecting those two with a nice curve

Now I'm sure you can see that form coming together in there is kind of a little bump that happens here, and it's really

following our opposing curves. curve in that way, that way, and that way, then that way, and then that way.

Alright.

So those are the basic forms, right, so basic, dynamic and a very, very rough skin, skin surface level of

the lips.

And usually when you're drawing them, out you generally indicate the teeth, unless you want to go

in crazy and do some crazy kind of teeth.

You generally indicate the teeth usually with just a line, and just remembering once again, that curve

shape.

And I think I keep reinforcing it, really because it's something ignored very often.

Just remember that curved shape of the jaw, and the mouth.

All right.

Let's go in and I want to show you some shorthand techniques for getting this down,

relatively quickly in your work. So when we're drawing our head shape, just going to do our typical

head again.

A very rough version here, get my mouth line in, depending on the style you're drawing,

of course, it may not always be necessary for you to draw in every single line of the lips, because when

you look at a person's lips, generally speaking, apart from maybe they're wearing very dark makeup or

something like that, the lip value and the lip color, tends to fade into the skin very softly, it doesn't

have a very harsh age.

And so common technique that is popular to do, is to draw in the mouth line, and then hint at the shadow

of the bottom lip, just like that.

So that's one short hand technique.

Draw in the mouth line, hint at the shadow at the bottom, you can even hint at the intent of the top lip.

And let's just do some very quick eyes here,

and you get a very three dimensional kind of look to the lips there, just by hinting,

the bottom shadow of the bottom lip, the mouth line.

And then you can hint at the top lip as well, sometimes you don't even need to do that.

And when it comes to the mouth lines themselves, based again, based once again on

the style that you want to do, you may want to remember those three forms, that kind of make up the lips.

And those three forms then effect the mouth line, which gives us these, kind of little, indentation

lines, very much like that.

That would be the front view.

And so when you're drawing lips, to imply or add in those little indentation lines and will give you kind

of more of a realistic looking lip.

OK.

If you want to open it, you can just simply draw in, considering the perspective, draw in a space of the

lip open.

And in this instance I'll have to move that shadow line, because the mouth position has moved, the jaw

position has moved slightly, and you get a very 3D look, and this is a shorthand that I use all the time,

I really just draw in the top lip line, very much like this.

So there's me using those line forms, those line shapes, draw in that shape,

maybe open the mouth a little bit, put in the bottom shadow, and you can see how quickly you can have

a very convincing mouth, right, a very believable mouth, and very believable lips, and add some gloss as well

just a little highlight for some fun.

And finally, and something we're going to touch on in much more depth in the facial expressions and emotions

module, is the corners of the mouth are very important. Depending on the direction that you face them,

and what you do with them, you can indicate different types of expressions.

We'll get into this in more detail, but try not to leave them out when you're drawing lips, kind of, just

put little dark dots there.

It just gives the lips more of a realistic look.

And last but not least you can, if you, if you really want to, you can draw in the lip lines, just connecting

those areas that you've drawn, and certain styles, really do call for the lips to be drawn very explicitly,

that you can see the full shape of the lips, just like that.

And always try to, as well, as a last tip, try to keep the main lip line.

So the line of the top lip or the bottom of the top lip.

The darkest line.

And it helps people really see that lip shape nicely, leaving the others lighter.

They can see the expression in the mouth.

Right.

In a nutshell those are the basic forms of the lip, we added to dynamism to them and we looked at some

shorthands.

Let's move on.