Draw Pocahontas
Pocahontas is the beautiful Native American princess who falls in love with John Smith, a settler arrived other Englishmen to colonize the Americas. This tutorial will show you how to draw Pocahontas in six easy-to-follow steps.
Steps
- Draw a circle for the head. Draw guidelines (vertical for the mouth and nose and horizontal for the eyes) for the facial features.
- Try to put this part at the top-right section of your paper, so you have room for her upper torso and long hair.
- Draw the face, making sure to define it well. Add the ears, neck, and shoulders (as shown in the corresponding illustration). All these features should be angular and simple right now--you'll be able to flesh them out more as the process continues.
- Sketch the hair. Draw long, dark hair blowing in the wind on the left side of her head. Continue down the shoulders with arms and chest.
- Don't add too much--this is just going to be a portrait.
- Add facial features. Draw the eyes on the horizontal guideline. Make them large and teardrop-shaped, with the tapered parts closer to her nose. Above the eyes make shapely, elegant eyebrows. Draw the mouth (with plump lips) on the horizontal guideline. Above the mouth make two nostrils. Erase the guidelines when you're finished.
- Don't get too dark or thick with the eyebrows or lips. Pocahontas has a strong, weathered sense about her, but she still looks like a princess, not a contestant on a reality show.
- Redraw the sketched lines more precisely. Add some details like waves in her hair, an angular necklace at the neck, a sleeve on the left shoulder, and V-shaped cleavage.
- Outline the drawing with black ink. Make a modular line (which changes from thin line to thick line, etc. over the course of the portrait).
- When you fill in the hair, try to leave out white lines where the waves are. This will give the hair a more three-dimensional appearance.
Tips
- Although she is a Disney princess, Pocahontas endures more physical and emotional trauma than most of the others, what with her tribe at war with the newcomers and her trying over the course of the story to find a way to be with John Smith while retaining her father's approval. Show this sufferance in her expression to give your portrait an extra bit of realism and depth.
- This particular example image isn't colored in, but Pocahontas has beautiful, vibrant coloring to her in the movie; adding some color to your drawing certainly wouldn't hurt.
