How to Draw Lips from the Side + Shading

Learn how to draw realistic lips from the side. Step by step and fully narrated tutorial. The first step for drawing lips is to draw a triangle!

In this drawing tutorial, you'll also learn how to draw an overbite, normal bite, underbite, and other customizations to make your lip drawing more unique. Using this triangle method, you can draw any set of lips from scratch, be it narrow, plump, or average-sized.

Drawing lips can be a lot of fun, especially when the steps are broken down step-by-step in an easy to understand manner.

✅ RELATED TUTORIALS
- Shading Techniques:
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✏️❤️ TOOLS I USED + ALTERNATIVES

⏰ SKIP TO TIMESTAMP...
Intro - 0:00
Tools - 0:17
Lip Construction Lines - 0:47
Lip customizations - 5:16
Lip wrinkles - 6:11
How to shade lips (planning) - 7:43
How to shade bottom lip - 8:52
How to shade top lip - 14:23
Reflected light example - 14:51
Shading the surrounding skin - 15:52
Blending skin w/ tissue - 20:23
Blending lips w/ blending stump - 22:07
Touchups / adding highlights - 24:00
Slideshow of the entire lip drawing process - 25:16

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🔥🔥 SKIP TO...
Tools - 0:17
Construction Lines - 0:47
Lip customizations - 5:16
Lip wrinkles - 6:11
Shading lips (planning) - 7:43
Shading bottom lip - 8:52
Shading top lip - 14:23
Reflected light example - 14:51
Shading the surrounding skin - 15:52
Blending skin w/ tissue - 20:23
Blending lips w/ blending stump - 22:07
Touchups / adding highlights - 24:00
Slideshow of the entire process - 25:16

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[barbarabunn]

Loved this. Have blending stumps but never knew just how benefitial they could be.
Thank you.

[lewisbroome]

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[theepicjuanart]

Fundamentals on drawings definitely always start with shapes, triangles, circles and squares. love it how you explained the angles depending on what look you want to achieve with the lips. great tutorial!

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Could you do tutorials on 3/4 face-angles? I'm struggling with the perspectives, and then it gets all over the place (lol)!

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