Self Portrait - Realistic Drawing Art

How's it going everyone, today I'm going to do something a bit different, that's a portrait drawing of myself.

Having an outline of a portrait using a pencil. Firstly I'm using a 2b and charcoal pencil to start, the main thing I focus on is realistically rendering which involves creating textures and shades.

So I usually jump right into drawing what would be the most challenging part of the drawing for some people which is the eyes sometimes I start in different places it just really depends but when it comes to realistic drawings get in the eyes accurate is essential in making it look like the person you are drawing. There is a lot of shadow around the eye and just around the eyelid so as I'm texturing the eye I'm taking that into consideration also I sharpen the pencil as much as I can it makes it so much easier to create details in the work when the pencil is at a sharp point. On one side of the face, it seems to get darker there is more of a shadow. I just apply more pressure that gets darker results. I eventually worked my way down to the lower section of the face and begin working on the lips. With the lips, I try to recognize the texture I have to create. Usually, lips involve small creases and smooth vertical lines. As the two lips meet I emphasize that by making a line a lot more bolder and darker.

I'm using charcoal and blending sticks to create all of these turns and different shades. I just do this by controlling the amount of pressure I apply to the paper. I change the motion of the pencil to hint that some texture like around the bottom of the lips. For example, you can see how it separates itself from the rest of the face. I want to also mention the direction of the pencil strokes a lot of the time the direction that you're shaded and the pencil is going in can help show the form of the subject.

When you draw hairs, you need to focus on the highlights, it's small additions like this that help gives that realistic appearance rather than it being all one solid shade. So you have to have some highlights than various pencil strokes in different directions. I'm going to sketch this part in around the neck and they do gradually get darker the closer I get to the shadow. I'm just looking at where we see shadows and the darker lines and then going over them and drawing them.

In term of drawing the blazer. I will just be looking at creating the details and the texture of the blazer and that's pretty straightforward. It's just a case of creating with the pencil and looking at the lighter and darker areas. Firstly I'm going to do is I'm going to outline the edge of the blazer.

There we go that is how to realistically render a portrait. I hope you enjoyed this, please leave a comment below. It really does let me be more creative. Thank you, everyone!