This is on Strathmore 300, with pencils anywhere from a 3B to a 9B. I usually start out with a 3B to block things in, then go from there. This isn’t a dead-on likeness with the image in the book, but I decided from the start that this was a shading and lighting exercise, not a likeness exercise.
Of course, you need to be able to replicate a reference image accurately, and feature by feature I think I have. It’s most likely a bit of a proportion problem, but I’m not going to jump off a bridge about it. Just learn from it.
I have purposely gone way further in rendering this and my other HEADS studies than I would in a composite drawing. But that’s why they’re called studies!
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Teaching myself to draw with the Cintiq
So, I’ve had a Cintiq for about a year now, and have really only used
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Mugshot Sketch 4
Finally, another mugshot drawing! I LOVE doing these, the black and white photography from the
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“HEADS” Study Number One
This is on Strathmore 300, with pencils anywhere from a 3B to a 9B. I
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Mugshot Sketch Number Three
Just another mugshot sketch. I like using these for practice because of the crisp photography,
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Mugshot Sketch Number One
This is a drawing I did about 2 years ago, when I sat down and
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Practice
Here a couple more drawings, and yes I’ll explain why they are both bald. I