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Have you struggled with drawing a mouth? Have you tried drawing mouths and never got it quite right?

This tutorial will help you get started with drawing realistic human mouths. 

To get the structure correct, you need to have a solid understanding of the structure of the eye and be able to draw it. To do this, you need to break the mouth down to it's simplest forms. 

Getting the mouth right is often a matter of making sure the corners line up and the lips maintain symmetry.  

Copy the simple forms and diagrams below. Learn to draw the whole shape accurately. Practicing these basic forms will give you a base of understanding and facility with the forms of the mouth. As you get more comfortable, add more detail and shading, but make sure the basic forms are in place first.