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Calling all artist!!.. When drawing is it easier to start of with the eyes?
I am an intermediate drawer and I need advice. Is it easier to start of with the head or the eyes when drawing portraits. I am getting to a realistic stage but it still looks fake a little bit. In your opinion what is the best mechanical pencil to draw with, and what type of pencil ( 2b, 2h etc) to draw eye brows/ lashes, and eyes with . Thanks to anyone who answer
Let's put it this way:
I've never met an accomplished, professional artist who starts off with just the eyes and builds the head around it.
When drawing figures (and portraits), proportion is especially important. If there is something off about the size of a body part it becomes subtly obvious and the overall drawing suffers as a result.
The way I've always seen it done, and the way I was taught, was to start with the rough shape of the head, establish the center line, then establish the ear location (the ears are much better landmark for establishing head orientation than the eyes), then the eye, nose, and mouth line. That way, you can check your proportions without having to do too much work. It may have happened to you where you put too much work into the eyes and too late realized that they are slightly off compared to the rest of the head. Now you have to either erase the eyes and redo all of that work or completely redo the head. That's why its better to start rough in all areas and gradually work into detail, which is why I work on the eyes nearly last.
Your next question, about the pencils, really has no answer. those sorts of things are really a supplement to an artist's ability, they won't make or break an artist.I've seen artists (both in real life and on illustration tutorial DVDs) that use regular old Bic mechanical pencils that you can buy at a Wal-Mart 10 for a dollar packs. A pencil is a pencil.
When selecting pencil type, There's not a formula for it, you just have to feel it out. Hard pencils will give you cleaner lines, but are very light, while soft pencils will give you darker shades, but rougher lines. Generally speaking, unless you're a professional and a master of pencil art, there's not much reason to go heavier than 4B or lighter than 4H. You may pick up a 6B if you really want to throw some black holes on your art, but I would advise against this as you loose texture and depth really easily. I've never used anything heavier than a 6B for sketchbook drawings, the lead is just too soft to be picked up completely by the paper (and even 6B is pushing it). I have used a woodless 8B pencil for figure drawing work, but that was on newsprint (very heavy toothed paper) and not really the kind of thing that is comparable to sketching. In any event, Your two main pencils would probably be an HB or 2B pencil, with possibly a 3B or 4B for heavier line or shading, and a 2H pencil if you want to do very fine, light details. At the end of the day, there really is no formula for it, you just have to find which pencils sit best in your hand, and which ones are best for different situations.
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