Learn how to draw a great looking Katherine Johnson with easy drawing instructions and video tutorial.
By following the simple steps, you too can easily draw a perfect Katherine Johnson.
Step-by-Step Instructions for Drawing Katherine Johnson
How to Draw a Great Looking Katherine Johnson for Kids and Beginners - Step 1
1. Begin the Katherine Johnson outline by drawing her glasses. First, use curved lines that meet at points to outline her eyes and to indicate the eyelids above and below them.
Shade a round pupil inside each eye, then enclose the eyes in oblong rounded shapes. These are the lenses of the glasses. You can learn more about drawing people with glasses here.
Drawing Step 2
2. Use curved lines to enclose the tops of the frames, the nosepieces, and the beginning of the earpiece.
Connect the lenses with a pair of curved lines. Use another curved line for the nose, and shade the curved and pointed eyebrows above the eyes.
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Drawing Step 3
3. Use a series of connected curved lines to sketch the nose and the creases alongside it, the lips, and the dimples below and beside the mouth.
Drawing Step 4
4. Use a series of overlapping curved lines to outline her face. Notice how the overlaps contour her chin, neck, and cheekbone.
Drawing Step 5
5. Use a series of overlapping curved lines to draw her hairline. Notice the widow's peak, a "V" shaped portion of the hairline in the center of the forehead.
Drawing Step 6
6. Use overlapping lines and long, wavy lines to draw her ear and hair.
Drawing Step 7
7. Finish enclosing her hair with a long curved line, then texture the hair with shorter lines.
Add More Details to Your Katherine Johnson Picture - Step 8
8. Use long curved lines to draw her neck and the rectangular and triangular shapes of her shirt's collar.
Draw an oval-shaped button on one collar, and give it a three-dimensional appearance by drawing a curved line along one edge.
Complete the Outline of Your Katherine Johnson Drawing - Step 9
9. Use long curved lines to draw Johnson's shoulders and the tops of her sleeves.
Color Your Katherine Johnson Drawing
Your Katherine Johnson outline is now complete. Color your portrait. Johnson had dark brown hair.
For more great famous people drawing tutorials, see the collection of Step-by-Step Famous People Drawings.
Learn More About The Katherine Johnson Drawing
If you don't know who Katherine Johnson is, you're not alone. For decades, Johnson's amazing story and contributions were lost to history. Learn how to draw Katherine Johnson as you get to know her.
Johnson was an American mathematician who worked for NASA.
She did math that helped keep astronauts safe and get them to the moon - all without using a calculator. In fact, Johnson and her coworkers were known as "computers"!
Her abilities with math were noticed when she was a little girl; she attended high school when she was 10 years old! You can learn how to draw a girl in math class to depict Johnson's childhood.
Johnson's story was told in the movie Hidden Figures. The things she did helped make things a little more equal during the 1960s.
You can also learn how to draw Martin Luther King, Jr., who also worked for peoples' rights at that time.
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