Drawing an Indian Girl in Vector Step by Step

To create this image in CorelDRAW you will need to use FreeHand Tool (F5) and Intersect Shaping.
First select FreeHand Tool and draw the shape of the face:

Draw an oval of the face:

To draw Eyes select FreeHand Tool (F5) and fisrt draw the outer shape of an eye:

Copy the outer shape, paste it, colour in a light grey (blue, green) and make a little bit smaller:

Select OvalTool, draw an oval, intersect with the light-coloured shape:

Using OvalTool draw the pupil:

Select FreeHand Tool and draw the details of the Iris:



Draw the highlights on the eye:


Draw the eyelashes:



Eyebrows:




To draw the lips, first select FreeHand Tool and draw the outline of the lips:



Select Rectangle Tool, increase the roundness of the corners to about 30 degrees, and draw teeth:


Select FreeHand Tool to draw highlights:


Now the face looks like this:

Now lets draw the girl’s hair and start drwaing highlights on the face:




Ears are drawn like this:

And earings are just simple ovals drawn by the OvalTool:


Now draw the shape of the body and Indian sari:


Draw hands like shown below:


The girls looks like this now:

Drawing the background:
First select Rectangle Tool and draw a rectangle, change the roundness of the corners. Then using Freehand Tool and Rectangle Tool draw the silhouettes of traditional indian buildings and palm trees:

Place your silhouettes (groupped in advance) in the front of your rextangle, select the group of silhouettes and the main rectangle and intersect them. Delete the shapes that are out of the rectangle:

Do the same with the image of the girl. Place her in front of the background and intersect both objects:
You can also purchase this vector from ShutterStock:
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Here are some examples of outstading works made after this tutorial:
Veronica Krasovska:








February 20th, 2011 at 16:15
Great illustration, Nastiushka! Well done!
February 20th, 2011 at 16:18
Thank you very much Oksanka:) I am happy you like it:)
February 20th, 2011 at 19:37
Amazing tutorial
February 20th, 2011 at 19:58
Thank you:)
February 21st, 2011 at 13:53
very helpful, thank you, Nastya
May 20th, 2011 at 14:48
AWESOME post! Wow! Thank you for sharing that! XX
September 16th, 2011 at 16:45
[...] You can also have a look at how to draw a portrait of an Indian girl here. [...]
February 4th, 2012 at 17:29
Helped me a lot with art exam. Thanks
February 4th, 2012 at 17:31
really? to where? share your results Nat:)
February 4th, 2012 at 18:37
oh, I see:) I am happy it did then!
August 21st, 2012 at 20:51
what a great tutorial, and quite simple technique. i’m just a beginner yet (i draw mostly for my own amusement, not professionally) and i always tend to use some very complicated ways… but from now on i’ll try to do like this. actually i wanted to draw a persian girl in some traditional clothes so this indian girl is pretty close to what i’m going to do =).
thanks a lot!
August 22nd, 2012 at 18:41
Thank you Nataly:)
January 21st, 2013 at 19:18
Hello, i forgot to tell you my mark. My overall mark was 90 percent which is quite good. Couldn’t have done it without your help Anasasiia!!
January 21st, 2013 at 19:20
90 out of 100? that s great! just awesome!
but how did my tutorial help? which aspects? just wondering:)