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Hi all!
Ive been doing some drawing here at home and i want to give my girlfriend a portrait of here face for christmas...

So i need help with shading her face....
I know there are great ways for doing this with photoshop but i want this one don in the traditional way :D

So do any of you know of a good board/forum with people who can help me...? maybe even you guys? :D

Thanx
Hyper
 
Hey Welles!! :)
sorry for my fussiness :P

Well I'm drawing the whole thing by pencil... using mostly B, and 4B. Hardness
And I'm gonna use a stomper (or what ever you call it) (those weird pencil kind off thing made by paper that you can use to smudge the lines) for the shading...i thought...

I have done most off the line art and now i want the drawing to get a great shading... :)
And yes i wanna do it "by hand"...:)

Thanx
Hyper
 
Here are a couple of tutorials which might be worth looking at...

Portrait drawing tutorials
http://www.portrait-artist.org/face/index.html (especially http://www.portrait-artist.org/basics/shading-explained.html )

Pencil Drawing Techniques
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/theart/jesspencil/jesspencil.html

Introduction to Drawing - Value
http://drawsketch.about.com/cs/drawinglessons/a/introvalue.htm

The biggest single decision you have to make is what basic technique you are using - line shading vs. value shading. One of my best friends was a fabulous pencil drawer who created a technique of stippling. The shading values were created with tiny meticulous dots only. Lines were seldom or never used, even for hair and other areas where it would seem to be obvious to use them. Nor did he use smudge shading. His work was amazing and much sought after for commercial purposes as it printed beautifully.

Good luck with your project!
 
Sorry for beeing away so long...had stuff to do... ;\

Thanx alot for the links Welles!! :D
That really helped :)

But im not quite getting the result i want...:(

Here are some pics of her....
The original, my line art and my test with shading......







What am I doing wrong.....the shading sucks as usual }:\ \:/

Thanx again
Hyper
 
Hi again, Hypercite.

I'm afraid I can't help with real suggestions as I started in the arts with sculpture and furniture first and then varieties of painting, prior to the computer. I never did pencil drawing.

My guess is that you need practice...lots of practice until you develop a technique which is personally satisfactory. Maybe if ronmatt chances upon this thread, he can help as he is a for real illustrator of many skills.
 
it just a matter of practice..break down the face into workable parts...
get the shape of the face first all around not just the outline.. then place the general shape of the eyes nose and mouth..she's smiling showing her pearly whites..thats a big part of her look.
the eyes and the mouth make or break a drawing like this...
I'll see if I can draw something up tomorrow...
Until then I did this with PS, it actually show the intersting parts that make up drawing.
You could also blow up the picture and trace it in pencil (light tables are great if you are drawing a lot)...some will say its cheating, but beleive me there is no reason to reinvent the wheel.

Lasa
 
This is a start... I wanted to post something drawn...It might help breakdown the parts.
Eyes are not flat they have inner curves/edges within the eye the white doesn't go to the end it is surrounded by the eyelid..same with the nose..

You've got a great start..keep at it.

Cute girl,
Lasa
 
my first post. :surprised: and it has nothing to do with photoshop. i know nothing about photoshop. teaching myself. i love to draw, taught myself. i agree with Lasa. and i think it helps to draw from a black & white photo. it seems you can see the lines better. and practice, practice, practice. have fun!
 
Hi Welles,
thanks!!!
this place is great!!! :}
i've been lurking in the shadows for a while and decided to give it a try.
photoshop is overwhelming. i will have to take it slow. but there is so much i want to do and not enough time. so i can't go slow. it's so much fun!!!

thanks for the welcome!!! i have to go create.
 
Theanx all!

Nice pic lasa :D

The eyes look really good in your drwaing....:D
Will have to take a cloe look and learn :)

Thanx again
Hyper

Ps. I will post the result here after cristmas....
 
This is a WIP, I've used lasa outline in Illustrator to place the base colors and shading(Gradient Mesh), After I do the hair (which I hate to do) I'll finish off the shading , hilites and cleanup in PS
 
I like it too. And nice drawing, Lasa! I suck at pencil drawing...that's why I like PS :D
It would be a challenge to illustrate a photorealistic face, but after some illustrations I saw recently, I think it's possible.
 
hyper, sorry to get into this so late. The pencils you are using are fine. The paper shader in a 'stump. They come in varying grades (hardness) and sizes as do the pencils. I recommend a Crescent cold pressed No. 2 board. it has pretty good tooth. You may want to consider starting on a velum or high quality tracing paper using a very soft pencil and when you happy with the proportions tranfer the sketch to the board. If using a stump you don't want any eraser tracks on the board. They'll screw up the texture and make the shading patchy. Maintain a 'soft touch' you don't want the pencil point to score the board either. When you do the trace paper version, remember it should be a mirror image. then you flip it and tape it to your working surface and re-trace the lines (not to hard). Use a kneeded eraser only. There are some sprays available which allow you to work in layers
Good luck and please keep us posted
 
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