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| There are many artists who struggle with drawing a | | | | your sin is made of oil and it will cause great ugliness |
| face and having it actually look like the person you are | | | | to appear on your drawing! Instead use a piece of |
| drawing. These tips should help you to achieve a more | | | | paper under your drawing hand to help you avoid this. |
| realistic outcome and have your drawings come to life. | | | | Some artists use gloves made for drawing as well. |
| The first tip is probably the most important. When you | | | | Try and hit the shadow hard and then after you have |
| are drawing, draw from a good source or reference. | | | | gone over with a towel erase out some highlights and |
| For instance make sure that your photo is a really high | | | | make the core shadow darker. |
| quality. Make sure that the photo is big and clear, and | | | | You can start darkening shadows make sure that you |
| not a lot of different lighting sources. Choose a subject | | | | are using your referenc to figure out where these are |
| that is interesting to you. If you want, a good idea is to | | | | exactly. You may have to do this several times till you |
| draw something of one of the masters, like Beugereau. | | | | establish the value you are after. |
| If what you are drawing doesn't hold an interest for | | | | Not all of the shadows are going to be dark. Never |
| you, you won't do as good a job on it, you'll have less | | | | forget where your light sources are coming from. This |
| patience, lose interest and never finish. But again, make | | | | is extremely important. Look for where the shadows |
| sure that your reference is high quality because if it's | | | | are falling in direct relation to where the light source is |
| not, you'll end up with garbage. | | | | coming from. |
| Next, begin your drawing with your outline. Different | | | | Start adding the finer details to your drawing. |
| artists use different methods for this. Also, time is a | | | | Blend in light spots and identify the highlights in your |
| consideration, so whether you use a grid method or do | | | | subjects hair. A very beginner mistake is to draw each |
| it by eye, make sure you are accurate. Of course, the | | | | and every strand of hair. Hair needs to be treated as |
| grid is going to be more accurate but time or | | | | a mass. Remember this and your hair will turn out |
| environment may not allow for this method. Also, as | | | | more realistic than ever before. |
| you gain more experience you may go by the eye | | | | Once you feel you are done, you are almost done. |
| more often as well. Block in and remember that you | | | | What? Well when you are working with graphite, it can |
| don't want to add in the fine details yet. Don't get | | | | be extremely messy and you may need to do some |
| caught up in working on an eye and all of the lighting | | | | major clean up of smudges. Use a kneaded eraser to |
| and shapes of the eye at this point. Avoid finer detail till | | | | lift these. |
| later. | | | | Take your time with your drawings and you will begin |
| Then you can start to divide the light from the | | | | to see that these techniques can be really beneficial. |
| shadows, hitting the core shadow outline hard making | | | | Anyone can learn to draw, it takes some patience and |
| a distinct value difference between light and shadow. | | | | willingness. |
| Then go over it with a towel or cotton balls. Never let | | | | |