COLOURED PENCIL PORTRAIT OF A FRIEND

Hello everybody! It is approaching summer break which means dreaded finals! This next week or so is going to be really hectic but it will all be over soon!

Today I would like to share a portrait I did of my friend. I was in class and we had free time and wanted to draw something but could not come up with any inspiration to draw anything. So I drew my friend.

Now the likeness between this picture and the drawing stops at about the pose. I had some trouble getting the face proportions such as the nose right. And the angle which I drew her face is different from the picture, so it does not quite resemble her.

I think as a piece it turned out really well but I still need to work on getting the features to look like the reference.

The materials I used are my prismacolor colouring pencils and a thick cardstock like paper.

I started off by drawing out all the parts of the face, the eyes, the nose and the torso. And then I start, with a light purple pencil, to colour in the skin, being aware of all the lighter and darker parts of the face. I also add a little bit of pink in the lighter parts of her face.

Next I add a warm yellow to the highlighted parts of her face.

Then I sketch out the general shape of the hair and start filling it in with long strokes.

Next I go in with a darker blue to add more dimension to the hair.

I decided to just use a solid colour for the shirt to make it simpler.

And finally I finish off by shading the shirt and adding the details to the eyes, lips and eye brows.

I wanted to use a purple colour instead of matching her skin colour because I wanted to focus on really getting the basics like being able to replicate the reference or getting the shading and highlights in the right places, without having to worry about blending a bunch of different colours together to achieve the right colour, which I find is especially hard to do with colouring pencils.

I still have a long way to go but I hope you like it!

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On another note...@mashiliyanage, @chamudiliyanage and I are working on a little project.

I present to you our tag! #tos, standing for
"Teens On Steem"
I will be tagging my posts under this from now on and if you are a teen so can you!
Using this tag we can start to unite and find other teens here on this platform and grow our knowledge.

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Thank you so much for your time.