Those crazy lines help with placement too. This is MY TIP of the day and it is LONG! Skip it if you want to. moreįIRST PICTURE: If you are doing a professional picture and need accuracy, this has helped me tremendously. Your picture won't look exactly like this, but remember my picture is only a guide. SECOND PICTURE: You've erased the guidelines and other distracting lines. Then do the same on your drawing, if it doesn't land in the same place, adjust. anything to vertically represent your line placement and try this: Take your reference pic, put the straight edge against the edge of the smile line and see where it lands near the eye. what a big difference! To measure out where the features go, take an envelope, piece of paper or a ruler (straight edge). Also take your reference pic and put it in the mirror too. If you feel something strange in your gut about your picture, put it up to the mirror. What? I can hear you say, "Your pictures are near perfect!" Not when I'm working on them. Don't get me wrong, I mess up majo rly most times. Practice the toning values to help you with control.įIRST PICTURE: If you are doing a professional picture and need accuracy, this has helped me tremendously. The whole sharpened portion is all lead, like in the step's picture. But for a wider swath, use that Cretacolor Monolith graphite pencil with no wood casing. With the No.2 pencil, you have the exposed lead side to shade with. UNDERHAND: Holding the pencil at a 45 degrees or near level to the table with end of pencil under your palm with pencil on the flat side, gives you large shading coverage. OVERHAND: Holding a sharpened pencil in normal writing form with fingers in the middle or near the lead gives you great control and thin/detailed strokes. The picture that goes with this step shows two different ways to hold your pencil to acquire certain effects. Practice the toning values to help you with control. OVERHAND: Holding a sharpened pencil in normal writing form with fingers in the middle or near the lead gives you great control and thin/det ailed strokes. blend and so does tissue paper for large areas. But you need patience with it because you need to mold it & sometimes you have stroke a few times before getting your results. Kneaded erasers can make great highlights like the pupil's catch lights, or shine in hair. 7mm mechanical pencil is you never need to sharpen it. And a No.2 pencil isn't bad either-great for details and light shading. It's nice, black, smooth on the surface and makes such great dark lines. I'm in love with the Monolith 9B graphite pencil sticks. This tutorial is completely in PENCIL! Let's start with the tools.
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