Hello everyone and welcome again to my blog. Hope you all have been good.

It has been a while since I did any photorealistic portrait job. Maybe because corona virus has not allowed I and clients to come to terms with the delivery strategies.

i got this commission to work on a picture that was blurred out totally... should i say the lady in question added a lot of snapchat filters and as such I could not get details like the skin textures and many other details. i just had to use my imagination and strain even harder than i would normally do to get this work done.

TOOLS

GPC CHARCOAL AND GRAPHITE PENCIL - 6B, SOFT AND MEDIUM
TOMBOW MONO ERASER
MECHANINCAL PENCIL
**BLENDING STOMPS

PROCESSES

After griding the picture and outlining on my paper, I began to shade from the face. This shading saw me going soft at the beginning because the shadows for this picture were very blended into each other. I had to use my 6B pencil to go over this from time to time and also reduce the way I pressed my blending stomps on it. Ideally, i did not add the very dark shades yet

I then moved to working on the lips and eyes. I had to go really dark to make the image and these parts pop out fine.. I had to look deeply into a pixelated picture to find out the details in the eyes and lips but it was worth it. it was beginning to have more form.

I then move to the hair. Now this was my favourite part of this drawing and i enjoyed working on this part of the drawing. I have already gotten to learn how to draw beautiful hairs from my creation on ADOBE AUTODESK SKETCHBOOK so i dived in with a faint pencil, making strokes as tiny as possible in the curves they follow and then went darker on it with darker pencils to show the shadows. I then highlighted with my Tombow mono eraser.

I then moved to the head tie she had on and her black top - This one was super easy. I played around with the background of the artwork instead of leaving it bland and there was more pop to the picture

I took it to the workshop to get it framed and this was the final result.

What do you think guys?