Finishing the Drawing Photo Reference Where We Left off Last post, I finished covering the entire drawing. While I’m not yet finished, all of the blank areas of skin and the clothes have been shaded in and modeled to a fair degree. Yet Another Mistake to Fix Unfortunately, I’ve noticed another major mistake in the… Continue reading Demonstration: Portrait in Graphite no. 2 (8)

After rendering the skin tone on the neck and ear, I render the clothing. We are now entering the home stretch.

I render the hair. I discover a setback that I must address even though I’m deep into the rendering process of this portrait

The portrait is moving along just fine. I render the forehead and cheeks.

Here, I finish initial rendering of the all important triangle of the face, getting in the focal point of the portrait.

I begin to move across the face, slowly building tone in continuous shade in this drawing.

Rendering begins for this drawing. I describe my process for continuous shading and shade the region of the eyes in this post.