Hello my dear friends of this wonderful platform, with this drawing I make my participation in this contest, for which I chose to draw a basketball player his name Kevin Durant who plays in the team of Warriors Golden State champion of last season 2017 - 2018, for the who like this sport like me.

Here the step by step of the portrait.

With a 2B pencil I made the sketch shading the areas of the beard and the hair that later darkened. With a cotton I was shading the dark areas of the face leaving blank where the lights are reflected

In this part use a brush to spread the graphite all over the face as you wil l see there are contrasts, with a pencil 6B fill your eyes leaving white areas so you can see the reflection of light, it is very important, gives life. With a 0.5 HB mechanical pencil I made the eyebrows are made better due to the fine tip. To make the hair use a soft pencil a 7B, but to try to make it look like hair I made small circles.

To make facial features such as cheekbones I used a 4H pencil to mark and with an 8B I darkened a bit and with a dirty graphite eraser I blotted to kill the same tracing I made with my nose. Already a little more advanced in the shading I focus to get lights with a clean eraser on the nose, under the eyes, by the mellijas and the front.

Here I am almost finished working on the mouth with a pencil 2H, 4H and 2B making several layers and with the rubber full of graphite blur and bring out lights in the lower lip.

And finally use colored pencils blue and red for the details of the uniform and ready here the finished work.

I hope you like my work I enjoy a lot doing it I like this style of drawings with graphite pencils.

This work is under a Licencia Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional.