Demonstration: Portrait Drawing in Graphite no. 2 (1)

A new graphite drawing begins. Here, I lay in the line drawing for what I intend to be a realistically shaded portrait.

Demonstration: Portrait Drawing in Graphite no. 1 (4)

I bring this drawing to a close, shading out the clothing and putting on finishing touches.

Moving across the face, and into the hair, I cover most of the focal point, the head and face, with shading.

Shading begins. I shade the right side of the model’s face in crosshatches.

In this post, I lay in the drawing for the first graphite drawing I will do for my site. I describe my process, walking you through my steps.

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