Pencil Drawing of mr. Patrick with explanation of drawing materials and a Tutorial on skin tone

Hi steem family

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I hope you are doing great. Today I bring to us a recent drawing I made using generals charcoal pencils, soft graphite pencils, tortillons or blending stump, tombow mono zero Elastomer eraser, kneaded eraser, flat brushes, makeup brushes, tissue, paper, drawing board, a clean sheet of small paper.

While we are reading through this explanation of materials, I want us to be enjoy viewing this awesome pencil drawing that I made.

The function of these materials are:

• General's charcoal pencil: A chalky medium, used in drawing/shading dark tones and also to add dark details in drawing

• Soft Graphite pencils: Used to draw outlines and also add shades in drawing

• Tortillon/blending stump: a soft paper-like material used mainly for blending and to add details in drawing

• Tissue paper: Used for blending

• Soft flat brushes/makeup brushes: Used also for blending. The different textures of the brush gives different textures in the drawing

• Tombow mono zero Elastomer eraser: used to clean unwanted part and also add highlights in drawing

• Kneaded eraer: An eraser that can be folded to any shape, used also to add soft highlights and also clean unwanted parts in drawing

• Paper: A base where we draw on. And about papers, the quality of paper matters, there are some that can hold our chalky medium more than others. But I most of the time make use of the pelican papers and bristol(strathmore) paper

• A clean sheet of paper: This can be a very small sheet of paper that can be used to place our hands when drawing to avoid smudging our drawing.

Smudging is basically messing up our drawing with dirt's on our fingers. It can be dirt's from the oils on our hands or charcoal residue. Sometimes It is difficult to clean the dirt's off our drawings so it is best we avoid smudging our drawings.

Let's talk about skin tones in drawing

Building skin tones is quite easy. While Building skin tones, be sure to keep in mind that the human face and even the human body is round and because it is round, there will be midtones, shadows and highlights. The areas where light is the strongest is the highlight and the one not really or not exposed at all to light is the shadow, and the area that is exposed to moderate light is the midtone.

This tones can be anywhere on the face depending on the direction of the light and the positioning of either the face or the part of the body involved.

In building these shades of tone with my approach means shading from the shadow to the highlights, making the shadows dark as seen in the reference picture and then progress in shading the midtones. Take note that for the highlight to be realistic, you must first shade the highlight area lightly and then use either the kneaded eraser or tomorrow mono zero Elastomer eraser to add the highlights.

I hope you learnt a thing or two from this publication

Have a wonderful day ahead.