How to Draw Lips

Do you want to make a beautiful lip drawing? If yes, below we have shared Lip drawings’ step-by-step tutorial. This tutorial will be helpful for you to make lips with simple steps.

Supplies You Might Need

  • Pencil – I uses Artline pencils for my artworks, it comes with different grades.
  • Kneadable Eraser – For removing dirty stuff and lightning the value of shading these gummy erasers are very useful.
  • Sketchbook – A quality sketchbook.
  • Mechanical Pencil – 0.5mm mechanical pencils for drawing fine and precise lines.
  • Fixative Spray – For protection of art from smudging.
  • Blending Stump – Paper stumps for smooth blending.
  • Pencil Color – Its thick cores are perfect for shading and shadows.
  • Acrylic Color – This set of acrylic paint has all the necessary colors to paint anything.
lip drawing featured image

Let’s jump into the tutorial to make a beautiful lip!

Step 1 – Draw a rectangle with a height of 7.1cm & a width of 11.4cm, then vertically & horizontally, divide the rectangle into four equal parts.

rectangular frame

Step 2 – Draw a heart shape on the vertical line, then draw two egg shapes on both sides of the vertical line similar to this drawing.

designing lips with heart shape and ovals

Step 3 – In this step, draw the outline of lips according to this pic.

making lips outline

Step 4 – Remove all unneeded lines from lips, then draw many small curve lines for upper & lower lip’s bumps.

lips sketch

Step 5 – In the final step To shade the lips firstly, shade with 2b grade pencil, then use 4b pencil for lip’s bump & in the last highlight the body of the lips ( like this drawing) with eraser, then use 6b pencil for shade lip’s lower vermillion border & oral commissure by doing this lip’s drawing will look more realistic.
(Note – Always go from lighter to the darker pencil)

lips pencil drawing

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You can also check this post on “How to Draw Lotus

Keep Drawing!

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