I’ve been getting quite a number of portrait commissions lately and I’ve really had a lot of fun working on them.
The forehead has proven to be the best part of the face I enjoy working on, I can’t really tell why this is so. I remember how I used to get worked up whenever my pencil set is not complete and won’t be able to do anything until I have my materials all set up for work.
With time I’ve learnt to be adaptable and able to do my works with limited materials which gave the advantage of the ability to creat a portrait on the go using not more than two pencil on a portrait.
when I say two pencil, I mean my favorite 6b Kimberly graphite pencil and a generals charcoal pencil.
The usual way technique of shading is the step by step layering on shades till you get to the desired tone. Although I don’t do that, 90% of the time I just go straight to the application of my desired skin tone which feels alien to some of artist friends that have happened to be around me when I just start a new work. I’ve been able to master this method of shading after a few years and ultimately enable me to create my works faster, efficiently and accurately.
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