Hi, I'm Jay French with jayfrenchstudios.com
and I'm going to teach you today how to draw
Martin Luther King, Jr. Alright, to draw Martin
Luther King of course we want to start with
a head and let's do there's a kind of a classic
shot of him speaking. Most of the time, when
you draw Martin Luther King, you're going
to draw with his open because he was after
all a speaker. So, let's get our basic head
in here and this is the like I say the most
common shot of him. We're looking slightly
up at him. He's on a podium. So, let's start
with getting the hairline. First, just a little
shakiness to your hand give a nice look to
African hair, ear because hiss angle is slightly
below the eye line. We're just going to this
a quick over. He had very slope nose bridge
and again we have the some classic African
features
but very distinctive eyes. He had a nice curve
to add outside of his eye almost Siamese cat
like which was his most recognizable figures
that gave him his soulful look and rounded
brow ridge sort of a prominent forehead. Hairline
was high into the center of the forehead generally
short hair. Let's get rid of our skeleton
lines and fairly prominent brows at the center
which faded out
and of course we have him speaking.
He also had a distinctive mouth especially
distinctive lower lip. It was sort of pointed
on the actual low line of the mouth when he
is speaking and fairly squared lower lip and
very rounded chin low jaw line, subtle cheek
bone and slope cheeks and of course we get,
darkening this in so you can see what we're
doing better, very pointed upper lip there
and of course very distinctive mustache little
bit of definition on the cheek bone and slight
bit of jaws and slight amount of accent to
the lower lens and that's your basic tutorial
on how to start with drawing Martin Luther
King Jr.
