How to Draw Mona Lisa in Paint

Outline

1. Print your Mona Lisa reference and place it next to your computer.

2. Double-click on the MS Paint icon and open the File menu. Select 'New.' Select the brush tool by clicking on it. If the color is not black, click on the black color swatch in the color palette.

3. Mouse-over the top-center of the canvas. Move the cursor down slightly and click on the left-button of the mouse. Draw the cursor in the shape of a long, vertical oval and release the left-button. This creates the oval-shaped head.

4. Paint a rounded, vertical line about two fifths of the way down the face, on the left side. Move your mouse to the right-edge of the line and draw a rounded, vertical line that is half as wide as the top line. Connect these two lines with a rounded horizontal line to finish the eye. Move your mouse to the right until it is about two-thirds of the way from the left side of the face. Draw another eye of equal proportions.

5. Move the cursor so that is one-quarter of the way up from the bottom of the face. Draw a vertical mouth that is rounded with a curve that points down. The line should be just to the left of the left-side of the face and should extend from the left-edge of the left eye to just past the left-edge of the right eye. Draw a flat V-shape for the nose.

6. Place the cursor on the top-left corner of the head. Draw the outline of the hair extending to the right side of the head. The hair is about one-fifth as wide as the face. Continue this line until it falls past the chin, to the end of the neck. The hair should extend to the right slightly as it moves down. At the end of the hair, draw a wide V. The other side of this V should touch the bottom-right corner of the face. Draw the left side of the hair. Draw a line that curves outwards and stops just past the neck.

7. Draw the shoulders. The left shoulder extends from the neck, falling in a diagonal line for about two-thirds of the width of the head. At this point, it falls into a vertical line. Draw the right shoulder on the other side. Draw the neckline of the dress. The neckline curves from the bottom of the right-shoulder to the middle of the left-shoulder.

Color

8. Click on the Bucket tool and select a peach-colored swatch. Click on the areas of skin--the face and neck. Add low lights to the face by clicking on the 'Spray' tool and clicking on the tan swatch. Move your mouse to the right edge of the face. Tap the left-button of the mouse lightly. Move the mouse up the edge slightly and tap the button again. Add these low lights to both edges of the face and the top of the neck.

9. Color the hair brown by selecting the Bucket tool and selecting the dark-brown color swatch. Click on the hair. Add a part by clicking on the tan swatch and selecting the brush tool. Draw a part though the middle of the hair, in line with the nose. Click on the medium-brown swatch and select the spray tool. Spray medium brown near the party using a light touch.

10. Click on the paint tool and select a white swatch. Color the whites of the eyes using the brush.

11. Draw the gold of the dress by selecting a gold swatch. Draw a curved line that extends from the right-shoulder to the right-edge of the dress.

12. Click on a dark-green color. Extend the lines of the dress to the bottom of the canvas using the Brush tool. Select the bucked tool and fill in the dress with green. Select a light green color and click on the background. This gives the background a light green hue.