John Wick portrait sketching case study 2 : shading and finishing.

Good afternoon my steemers friends, as you remember in my previous post of John Wick drawing case study, i had promised there that i will finish the drawing of Keanu Reeves, so finally i had some time yesterday to put some shades on the sketch i had started in that post and had finish it today.

Update

sorry guys as i forget to put the link to my first John wick post, please find it here: https://steemit.com/fineartnow/@jacobkaled/portrait-sketching-case-study-john-wick

so i will start up from what i have finished in that post with a rough sketch of John wick :

Basically i used two charcoal pens, first one is extra charcoal No.4 and the other is soft charcoal pen No.1 , i also used the artistic gum to smudge and erase the extra charcoal, and a thin painting brush i have used mainly in dry brush technique to give the shades a softer and realistic look, please take a look here:

and will start to add some shades and details, i also modify the eyes and the nose, i started by filling the darkest areas of the sketch which are the hair, the eyes and the beard, using the hard charcoal bar, then continued to draw the midtones using the softer charcoal bar, i have also used the gum to define the brightest areas in the sketch and also to smudged and softened the drawing with the painting brush so it gave it the required smoothness,so the result looked like this :

It is still not as realistic as i want it to be, but anyway i am not a big fan of realism so i am ok with it, hopefully Keanu Reeves will not get pissed of and come for a revenge if he saw this drawing 🙂, anyway please upvote and follow and always remember, do not piss John wick off.