Drawing Together Episode 53: Drawing a Child’s Portrait
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What a great subject to tackle. This one is a bit of a challenge as we draw a child’s facial features. Follow along using this reference image: https://bit.ly/31eM5vE
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Today, I’m working with:
- Grey Toned Paper
- Ebony Pencil (Or any soft Graphite)
- Kneaded and Rubber Erasers
- Carbon Pencil, Black Colored Pencil, or Creatacolor Black Pencil
- White Chalk Pencil
- Shading Stumps
In this session, we’ll cover:
- Drawing and sketching the portraits
- Drawing children
- Drawing Eyes
- Realistic shading techniques
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Great lesson, thanks so much.
Love doing this one, think my faces are getting better
Loved drawing a child! Thank you, Scott
This is excellent!
Excellent work here!
Wonderful work!
Beautiful work!
Wonderful work here!
I’m glad to hear it. It looks great!
Great job with this!
Fantastic project!
Thank you Scott for the eyelash and eye brows drawing techniques. I have always wondered how to draw them.
Really enjoyed this lesson and the reminder to focus on the structure of the face before drawing the details. Thanks, Scott! Great job.
This was great, and a new challenge—first child I’ve drawn. I always look forward to your lessons, Scott! It’s helped me devote more time to my drawing!
Okidoki here is my attempt at the child’s features. Moved the left eye at least 3 times and then I had to adjust the slant of the other eye and the position of the nose… more a jigsaw than a drawing lol Thanks for another great session Scott.
Really enjoyed this. Drawing is such a wonderful escape from everything. (Grey charcoal paper, graphite, white pastel pencil.)
Here it is…
Thanks for the effort you put into these drawing sessions, Scott. I look forward to them. I used grey toned paper and charcoal pencil for this.