Tutorial: Human Face

I wanted to emphasis the importance of adding your own personal touches to drawing with this tutorial. Here the artist has added feathers that fit into the hairs movement. Also they have added two tattoos to add another element to the drawing. Once you are more experienced with drawing human faces, you can always bring it up to another level. Try experimenting with a variety of shading styles, an example of this is the hair above has two shaded strips that run through the fringe creating a interesting effect, as well as showing how the light hits the hair. Since this drawing is done with a coloured pencil, you can try choosing only one coloured pencil to create your own drawing and only stick to that one pencil.

Now the actual drawing is drawn in a mix of an Anime and a realistic style, this is shown by how the nose is shaded as well as the hair. The eyes are drawn perfectly matching up to each other which is difficult to do, so don't worry if you aren't able to recreate this. The lips and nose are drawn simplistically, but with simple lines you need to be more precise on creating those lines. Very minimal shading is used throughout the drawing, but I want to highlight the shading of the nose since her head is leaning upwards, it creates a interesting angle of shading but the artist has had no issues working with this angle. Now the angle of the portrait is another element that you can implement into your drawings, as you can see by how the head is arched back it creates a more unique perspective adding another level of creativity.

I suggest starting small when adding personal touches to drawings, as it may take a while to discover your own style. Although you need to learn how to draw basic human faces to the correct proportions before you begin.

Feel free to post your outcome in the comment section below, have fun!

Artist: Unknown
Picture retrieved from: Night life

Tutorial: Human Face, Kurt Cobain

Although this drawing does not look finished, the beginnings of the rough sketch style is starting to form. If you look at it closely, the dark lines create a sense of movement and it reminds me of the static on a radio if you haven't found a channel. All the dark lines have small white gaps in between which creates a comic book feel to it as well. The drawing of the human face is done to correct proportions with perfect shading to compliment it. The eye looks realistic enough that it catches your attention, which is the power of perfecting eyes.

Anyway to create this static movement effect, it is similar to cross hatching except you don't overlap lines unless you want to create some very dark shading. You shade using only direction of line, for this instance the lines are mostly going left diagonally downwards. The idea is you try and shade quickly which adds to the sense of movement in the drawing, try not to curve your lines while you shade as all the lines here are kept fairly sharp. A good way to start adding this shading effect is to draw a light outline of what you're drawing then determine where you need to shade. Although the above drawing is done in pen, you can still use a pencil to create this effect. If you're using a pencil try to keep it sharp while doing this type of shading to keep the lines consistently thin.

Feel free to post your outcome in the comment section below, have fun!

Artist: Jonalexher
Picture retrieved from: Kurt Cobain Ink Drawing

Tutorial: Fan Art, League of Legends, Ezreal Portrait

For this tutorial I wanted to focus on creating this particular Anime style drawing. The first thing you notice is the large eyes, which are the main element that distinguishes this drawing style from the rest. The nose is also fairly different as it is much more simplified, only the nostrils are kept removing the wider parts of the nose making it look pointed.  The lips are still similar to a realistic drawing, but the lips are drawn with less detail by not showing the tiny grooves that lips have. The lines of the hair are much more defined by a light black outline for every different movement as well.

Anyway a Anime styled drawing is easier than drawing realistically but it can be also tricky to get used to. The difficult thing about drawing in this style is creating the right sized eyes as they are much larger, although since they are larger it is easier to add detailing into them. The size of the pupil is considerably large so keep that in mind. All the other facial features apart from the hair are all simplified versions of a realistic drawing. The nose is just a triangle with nostrils since there is no detailing added to show how the curves of the nose realistically. The lips are simple as they are only three lines with some shading.  Also ears have less detailing on the inside of the ear. Now with all this simplifying it leaves a small amount of lines that need to be drawn to create this style, but with less lines, this means that the lines you draw much be sharp and precise. Majority of the drawing is outlined in a small dark line, and the shading is similar to a realistic drawing.

To create the hair, you're going to need to try and determine different parts of the hair that can be turned into individual strands. Then you outline all the individual parts of the hair in a thin dark outline. Keep in mind that the shading of the hair is separated by the thin dark outline as well.

Feel free to post your outcome in the comments section below, have fun!

Artist: Dashae
Picture retrieved from: Copics Try
Arist's comments: Well, I'm a bit obsessed with Ez...

Tutorial: Human Face, 30 Minute Sketching

Although this drawing was done within 30 minutes, the artist was able to capture the person they were drawing onto paper fairly well. All the lines are kept light and only the lines that were necessary were added, this is shown by the hair as it has a lot of white space to represent the lighting. Now the proportions of the face are done perfectly as well as the shading, which is why this simple drawing looks so nice so keep those in mind while drawing. I don't expect this kind of detail when doing a relatively quick 30 minute sketch, but with practice you can build your drawing skills up to this level. A good way to practice is to start by sketching simple objects such as a sphere or a cube, then continue to move up to human portraits or features etc.

What makes this drawing stand out is the shading of the hair and tiny touches of white in the eye, glasses and lips. The shading of the hair is relatively difficult to create, but try to figure out what are the most important lines that make up the hair. As you can see above where the hair sprouts from her head is the darkest part, and the hair near the bottom is shaded as well, their is only a light line to distinguish the curves of hair. All those lines are the most important parts that make up her hair. Natural hair can look deceptively easy to draw, but trying to figure out the shading then putting it to paper is difficult, so don't worry if you can't create the hair shown above.

The tiny touches of white added on the eyes, glasses and lips are easy to create, but you need to know where the light hits the face and what points are the brightest. You can create the tiny white highlights by drawing a very soft outline of where you want the white spot to be, then never drawing in that outline. Another way is to use a white pencil as the artist has done above, or just use your eraser if you have drawn over where you want the white spot to be. The problem with the eraser is that once you draw over the spot, the paper below will still be slightly dark from your previous lines so your white highlights won't be as bright.

Feel free to post your outcome in the comments section below, have fun!

Artist: sultryhotwife
Picture retrieved from: Charcoal portrait 30mins

Tutorial: Fan Art, Deadpool

Although this picture is only of Deadpool's head, it highlights the comic book style of shading. I didn't want to overwhelm you with a high detailed picture of Deadpool and decided to use this picture to base my tutorial around. The shading is very solid and distinct, combined with some bold lines to create the curves of the face. Also outlines of the edge of the face are kept fairly thin. Now to create this style you want to start by drawing a thin outline of whatever you're drawing. Then you're going to need to figure out what parts need shading, but the thing is you have to have a solid shape of what the shading will look like. When you colour the shapes that make up your shading they must be kept a solid colour as seen above. Also keep note of how sharp and precise all the lines are while replicating this style. This drawing style may take a while to perfect since you have to  clean and accurate lines which is fairly time consuming.

Anyway in order to draw Deadpool, you're going to need to practice drawing the two iconic white eyes in the large ovals perfectly, since those are the elements that help to distinguish Deadpool as a character. For the paint splatter effect, I find it fairly difficult to draw which keeping it looking realistic and natural. Since you need to understand the randomness of how paint splatters. If you're drawing from scratch, your paint splatter effect might look rigid and awkward, so I suggest looking at paint splatter images on Google to help get an idea on what a natural paint splatter looks like.

Feel Free to post your outcome in the comment section below, have fun!

Artist: Unknown
Picture retrieved from: You guys want some Deadpool wallpapers?

Tutorial: Rough Human Face, Hugh Laurie

This portrait is more rough then all the other ones I have showcased, but with this roughness it adds a rugged effect as well as a sense of movement. The person the artist was representing has slight differences to the drawing and can be a bit difficult to recognize, the only way to create recognizable drawings is to keep practicing drawing. Then each time you start trying to draw a celebrity for example, try set yourself small goals such as perfecting the eyes. Anyway this drawing looks to be a fairly quick sketch. To create this you want to just draw without worrying how perfect your lines are, then at the end you can edit them as well as add some more shading. You have to try and free up your hand and try to sketch quickly as you constantly switch back and forth from what you're drawing to your paper. Don't worry about the messiness since that adds to the rugged effect, and creates that sense of movement I was talking about.

You could also try setting a time limit for how long you have to draw any image. For example, try to only take 3 minutes to get all the basic outlines for the drawing above and see how you go. This way it forces you to rush, which distracts your mind from caring about the accuracy of your lines. Now if you're still a beginner at rough sketches don't expect your sketches to be very accurate, it may take a couple of tries to get used to how fast or how messy your lines should be to create a nice rugged drawing.

Feel free to post your outcome in the comment section below, have fun!

Artist: Shadowfangs99
Picture retrieved from: My sketch of Hugh Laurie as House M.D

Tutorial: Fan Art, Spiderman

Now it is very easy to recognize that the drawing is of Spiderman, but I still want to highlight the importance of perfecting the characteristics that make up that character. The large eyes combined with the webbed skin is done perfectly which makes it easily to recognize. This drawing is done entirely with coloured pencils, but you can still just use a lead pencil to recreate it. Keep note of the attention to detail in the shading, each little square in the webbed suit has it's own shading, and the eyes are shaded so that they are reflecting the light. The shading of the eyes is fairly difficult, but if you want to create this make sure you already know where you want the glint to go, since it is difficult to create glint if you have already drawn heavily over the area where you want it. This tutorial will be focusing on the use of coloured pencils though. Since I'm not so experienced in this area, I'm going to use the advice that the artist had included with their drawing.

    Artist's Comments:

I took art classes for a few years, and this one was done with prismacolours. A few things I've learned are:

Do not apply black right away; always use the darker blue/purple before applying black if it's necessary. The Spiderman drawing was more purple than red, surprisingly.

Try to keep your pencils sharp, and use paper with as little variation in texture as possible. I use a brand of sketchbook called Mayfair, and I find it much better for colour pencils.

Don't press too hard. It's better to add multiple thin layers than one thick layer of colour. This also makes it easier to mix colours.

I usually try to avoid erasing or smudging colour pencils just because it's harder to colour over afterwards. It's extremely important that when making the outlines in pencil before applying colour, you press very gently, just enough to see the pencil lines. If you press too hard, when the pencil lines get erased, it leaves small dents in the paper which look like white lines when coloured over.

Anyway feel free to post your results in the comment section below, have fun!

Artist: FreshLemons49
Picture retrieved from: Spiderman for a friend's birthday!