STEP BY STEP - Portrait Studies based on the References sent by you 🪁🧡👾
Added 2021-12-03 15:18:40 +0000 UTCHi everyone!
Today I made two portrait studies based on the references sent by Yoana 🥰 You can all send your suggestions on the #reference-photos channel on our Discord 👾
Here’s a little Step by Step:
1. I started with this handsome man. It’s unbelievable for me how not accurate are my first sketches sometimes. But it’s ok and it’s totally enough for the beginning:
2. I marked general proportions and started to draw more accurately from the nose. As you can see I made some guidelines to place eyes properly:
3. I drew outlines of the shadows and lights to start adding values:
4. I smudged pencil with a finger to create darker value of the hair. Then I formed the kneadable eraser to a pointy thing and erased small lines to create highlights of the hair:
5. I added darker details and values with 8B pencil and made some freckes with dirty tip of a paper stump:
6. The second sketch started the same way:
7. I really like the second picture here. It could even stay this way. Everything is blocked simply but accurately:
8. Outline of the hair, blocking of the values and adding the basic shading:
9. I decided to focus a bit more on the hair this time so I started to add the darkest value on the sides of the face to create a contrast with the light skin.
10. Drawing hair strands and shading them (I didn’t smudge the hair in this sketch):
11. I erased a bit of the shadows from the face to make it even more contrasted with the dark hair:
Materials:
〰️ HB pencil - Faber Castell 9000 - for general sketches
〰️ 0.5 mm 2B lead in the Pentel Graphgear 1000 - for precise lines and details
〰️ 8B pencil - Toison D’or - for very dark values and and details
〰️ Tombow mono zero - elastomer eraser - to erase details
〰️ Faber Castell kneadable eraser - to erase bigger elements and highlights
〰️ Paper stump - to blend small areas
〰️ A4 Arteza sketchbook
That’s all! Let me know what you think 😊
Have a lovely weekend! 🧡
Gaby
Comments
I love the sketches so much. I could stare at the details forever, it’s so calming to look at your pictures. Thank you for the tutorial.
Yve - GraphiteDebris
2021-12-03 17:12:56 +0000 UTC
