Hello Steemians!
Today's drawing is my entry to 
The contest is about practicing and learning to draw the human body using only traditional art no photography or digital artworks are allowed.
It's a 14-week long contest, where artists will draw each week a selected body part, and this week selected part was the lower leg.
You can learn more about the contest →HERE← & check other artists artwork.
Here's my drawing and the tools I used:
- Graphite Pencils (2H, B, 2B, 4B)
- 2B Mechanical pencil 0.5mm
- Cotton Buds ( q-tip ), Kneaded Eraser, Plastic Eraser, a tissue.
- Canson Paper size A4
And here's the progress showing and explaining how I drew it:
Step 1- I always start with drawing the basic outlines, using a 2H Graphite Pencil, this helps to easily erase the lines or simply draw above it.
Step 2- Next I fill in the body outlines using the hatching technique with a 2H.
Step 3- Then I blend it with a tissue and a q-tip for the small parts and the edges, to create a base for the skin.
Step 4- I start shading the darkest areas using the layering technique starting from light to dark with a B followed with 2B and finally 4B mainly at the edges.
Step 5- I followed the same process for the full body using the shading and layering techniques to create that 3D illusion for the skin and make it look realistic, then I used a 2B Mechanical pencil 0.5mm to add some details for the feets.
Finally, I added the curves in the bed using 2H and the used q-tip following the same techniques (shading and layering).
Sorry for the low-quality images, here's a scanned version with better resolution, so I hope you'll like it.
Thanks for reading. Feel free to share your thought and let me know if you have any questions.
Can you give my artwork a name or title?
Peace.
