Hello Steemians!!!
Here again, Today I am sharing this to you my recently finished commissioned portrait. So I was told to make a portrait of her friend or her co.worker as a birthday gift today but it was made 12 hours before her birthday. Though I am a working scholar in a university and have a busy schedule, I tried to insert her request and I did well. I am writing this blog also as an additional learnings to future artist in making portrait though I am not really professional kind of artist.
Materials that I used:
- vellum board
- mechanical pencil
- 2b pencil
- compressed charcoal
- cotton
- 8b pencil
- 6b pencil
- ruler
- cotton buds
- hard flat brush yellow tip
Mobile apps that I used for guide:
- Artist Grid (Playstore)
You may also read my blog here when I got my first ever 
Step 1: I made a grid for my reference by the use of Artist Grid app and made a grid just like how many existed in my reference to my vellum board. Ruler and mech pencil.was used
Vellum board is much good to use than bondpaper because of its roughness and hardness of the board. A good quality paper for portraits and arts.
Step 2: I made some sketches of my drawing as a proportion to my reference with the use of 2b pencil and for the skintone of the face. I used 8b on the eyes and eyebrows.
Step 3: I used 6b pencil to shade the dark part of the face especially the lips and I used the cotton buds to smoothen the shade. I used compressed charcoal to shade the scratch so where I can dip my flat brush to grab some dust and applied to my drawing especially those darkest part of my reference.
Step 4: I used 8b pencil just to make a strands for the hair and monoeraser for the highlight part areas which directed by some certain lights.
It seemed that my portrait and reference were not identical because it was a rushed request from her. So I couldnt refuse her request. I know the feels of needing request from anybody.
Sorry for the English, not kind of a writer...
So I hope you enjoyed reading my blog. Dont hesitate to critic me. I will use that as a learning from my mistake.
Thank you!!!
