I have been posting a Sketch study every week in which I spend my time describing the creative process that happens in my mind and how I manage to do everything in the most simplest words . So other people who wanna draw know where to start from . This week I'm studying another asian reference from Pinterest and here is how I sketched it and filled in the values so even with just charcoal pencils it looks realistically shaded.
Step one is always starting with simplified basic shapes for the human head like a circle for the cranium and cylinders for the neck and jawline and you just start making more shapes detailing it where the eyes will be . The eye part I usually draw like a trapezoid and the nose is like a 3d trianglular tower so that's the basic and with time I just refine these shapes more and more . The trick is simply doing this step with a very light hand and drawing with whisper lines until you are satisfied enough with the sketch to just finalize it . Like here in the first picture you can see I refined the sketch and finalized it and just used a 2H pencil because the more hard the graphite is the less it smudges so lineart is great with 2H pencils now to make this 2d sketch more 3d and realistic we must shade it and add values.
To do so I start with a 4b pencil and lightly darken the eyelashes and her brows also the front bangs . I also lightly shaded the lips and I did the upper lip a little more dark. Now I add more shading to her nose sides so the look contoured slightly shade her cheek bones and her lower lashes because Asians tend to have a very distinct eye shape and their eye lids can be a bit puffy looking .
Next I shaded her ears and added some earrings.
Now I grab my 6# blending stump and just blend it out . Today I decided to see how hatching looks on hair and why it's not used in hair so here is a little demonstration . I just did some box hatching on her hair and blended it out but still you can see it looks a bit messy . Sometimes during my sketch study I experiment with techniques to see why which thing doesn't look cute . For me minimally hatching and drawing depth in hair by making different sections is more better than just drawing strings and hatching them like a chicken scratch.
Any way after blending I realized this hatching technique can work for Cleopatra wig like hair cause those really looked like this but not for real hair .
Next I just shaded her neck and her eyes a bit more blended it all up.
And here is the final result.
Tbh not the best of my works but u know practice and learning experimenting is what makes it fun . Sharing failed pieces is also a great thing it let's you learn alot from it .
That's all for today Thank you for your precious time and support ❤️