CHARCOAL DRAWING - FRIEND´S PORTRAIT

Hello Friends!!

I was away a long time, The reason is that i was migrating from my country, solving many problems and diligences that absorbed me a lot of my time.

Finally, i already have free time to continue drawing and i would like to continue sharing my work with all of you.

A few months ago a great friend asked me for a portrait, i could not do it until now that i have already taken my pencil and draw again.

Portrait

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This girl is my friend since i was in school, she has very beautiful features and i decided to finally give her a portrait.

The tools that i used were the following:

• Mechanical Pencil.
• HB / 6B Leads.
• Charcoal Pencil (Medium).
• Moldable Eraser.
• Brush.
• Diffuser.
• Graphite Powder.
• A4 Opaline 300G.

_{This is the reference image that my friend wanted to portray, you can also get it in her instagram page.}

Instagram Page

The Process

• _{To start, i made the sketch with the HB pencil.}
• _{With the charcoal pencil i illustrated the eyes, always when illustrating a face i begin with the eyes, because, it seems to me it is the most difficult part of the whole face.}

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• _{With the HB pencil i made a soft layer to tone his skin.}
• _{In this part i made the shadows and volume of the face with graphite powder, also mix a little with the charcoal pencil.}
• _{Some artists have told me not to mix the charcoal with the pencil, because they do not get along ... I think otherwise, they complement each other so well and applying the right technique can be combined and obtain excellent results.}

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• _{On her lips i mixed graphite and charcoal to give volume and with the moldable eraser i gave the light.}
• _{The hair are only charcoal strokes from the root, ignoring some spaces to give shine and softening with the brush.}

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• _{I fused the hair with the face and this was the result:}
• _{Then I illustrated the chest and its arms equal to the face making layers with the HB pencil until achieving the ideal tone.
  With the graphite powder i made the shadows.}

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I made some details and shaded his body in the direction where the light hits and this is the Final Art:

This is a very simple work within illustrations in realism, which i really liked to do and i´am very sure that my friend will be very happy!

I want to apologize once again for so much time of absence, and thank you all for your support!

Until the nex time!!

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Posted from my blog with SteemPress : http://kennyvaldez.vornix.blog/2018/10/21/charcoal-drawing-friends-portrait/

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