11/29/2023 0 Comments Face outlineImage 3: This part is optional, but will help guide you if you often catch yourself getting lost in the details while shading. Which I also recommend you do because it’s hard to fix something if you get the head proportions/angle wrong. Usually when I draw, I work on these things last. Image 2: For the sake of making this tutorial look more interesting, I went ahead and shaded the background, clothes and hair. I had to draw mine 3x darker because the scanned image showed up blank. Keep your under layer as faint as possible. Image 1: I used a blunt HB pencil to draw the outlines for the face. You can take this a little bit further by adding cast shadows as well. To do that, you can create a planar head/face of your subject, add a light source and shade the individual planes using solid tones or gradients relative to the direction and intensity of the light(s). Proper proportions aside, it is highly important that you figure out the lighting situation for the scene before you shade the face to identify patterns of light and be able to apply the right amount of value where appropriate. If you read my shading tutorial, you will need to apply your knowledge of light and your practice with planes in this section. How to Shade a Face Step 1: Lighting the Face Pencils: Derwent HB, 4B, 6B and a 4B Ain Mechanical Pencil.Step 2: Preliminary Outlines + Shadow Lining Please keep in mind that the tutorial is best viewed online because the changes between each step are quite subtle and best viewed with the slideshows which are not supported in PDF. Here’s a PDF (offline version) of the tutorial. To print only 1 from the PDF, navigate to “pages” and type the page number you would like to print. ⬇️ Downloads:Ĭlick here to download a template of the face (it will open in a new tab). Thanks Dale Fisher for the great idea! Also, included is a PDF version for offline viewing. NEW:There’s a downloadable template of the unshaded face so you can print it out and follow along without having to re-draw the face every time. You can skip to any area by using the links below, but please do not skip the first 2 sections!įrom step 3 onward, each step is broken down to multiple sub-steps so you can easily follow along with what I’m doing. This is going to be a very detailed and lengthy post where each step covers a specific area of the face such as eyes, nose, mouth, chin, etc. It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or intermediate… if you have the patience and dedication to sit through this entire tutorial, I PROMISE you will walk away with a handful of value. The GIF below is a preview of only a few images you can expect to see in this tutorial. You can also zoom in and out of each slideshow image to analyze the details further. Most steps contain a clickable slideshow of 3-9 images so you can view them at your own pace, and easily observe the subtle changes from one image to the next. You can immediately apply these techniques to your own artwork and watch your portraits come to life.Įach step is packed with a ton of image examples. Each step is backed up by clear explanations, shading tips and techniques. Tired of reading shallow and confusing tutorials?ĭo you have trouble following shading tutorials online because they usually skip from step ‘A’ all the way to step ‘G’ with little to no explanation? Do you have difficulties making your drawings pop or look realistic, eventually giving up in frustration?įor this tutorial, I recorded the full drawing process by scanning 213 high quality images which took over 35 hours in total just to scan! From that, I carefully selected a group of images for each step which clearly shows the intricate stages and layers of my shading process. I’m not going to talk a lot about shading techniques in this post because it’s already covered there. If you haven’t read the in-depth shading guide, please click here before you continue on. This tutorial is so long that it’s the equivalent of a 40 page book! So in this monster of a tutorial I will show you how to shade a face with pencil from beginning to end using a ton of images, explanations and tips. Shading is what makes a drawing look realistic and triggers that “WOW” reaction. It’s also a tedious process, and that’s why it’s so difficult to teach. I’ve been drawing for most of my life and it still gets to me sometimes. I’m sure you’ll agree with me when I say this:
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