STAGES OF PROGRESS_Should I be lazy or naughty today...

Stages from start to finish...from top left side to bottom right hand corner...and the final version.

I started with the outline... and then worked on the tonal values. The drawing was on a 24X30cm 130gsm cartridge sheet. The pencil used was 8B Steadtler. No erasers, no grids, no smudging technique used. Its a free-hand drawing using variation of pressure of pencil on paper to get the different tonal values. The only other tool apart from pencil is a finished pen to get the highlights while working on the hair.

It took approximately 4 hours of continuous effort to finish the work. It was done from a photograph.

Thank you so much for viewing... hope it helps in some ways...

Tags: Portrait, and, black, figure, graphite, pencil, stages, white

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Comment by Soman Patnaik on October 29, 2012 at 12:19pm: Thank you Jayaprakash!

And workshop - it will be... and very soon, November or December. Let it roll-out in the PJ website...just keep your eyes open! And thank you so much for showing interest and asking for a workshop.

Comment by JAYAPRAKASH P V on October 29, 2012 at 8:44am: hi soman... when will be your next session (workshop on pencil sketch and water color painting)...??

Comment by JAYAPRAKASH P V on October 29, 2012 at 8:39am: Great work... and thanks for sharing WIP

Comment by Soman Patnaik on June 2, 2012 at 4:17pm: Thank you Sonali, Asha!!

@Asha: Whoaaa!!! Thats a huge compliment, and I am certainly not fit to get yet... but thank you so much for your generosity !!!

Comment by Sonali on June 2, 2012 at 8:59am: As ALWAYS!!! Amazing work Sirji!!!! You continue to Inspire !!!!

Comment by Soman Patnaik on May 18, 2012 at 4:29pm: Wow!!! Thats so nice to hear.... I am glad my session helped you... Its so gratifying and encouraging to know this. Thank you so much!! Keep on working and practising... Happy penciling!!!

Comment by Anshul Chaurasia on May 18, 2012 at 4:15pm: oh that is such a great technique. I tried it and the results simply bowled me over!! Thankyou so much.

In fact I have been improving a lot after I attended your session on portraits. It was really helpful, I finally got rid of hard lines and started adding more of shades to create boundaries and shapes :)

Comment by Soman Patnaik on May 17, 2012 at 10:29pm: Hey Anshul... first of all...Thank you so much!!

Now your queries -

- Well, everything is done in the same grade of pencil... 8B Steadtler pencil... as you see in the pic

- And that ain't any finishing pen... its just some pen (of which the ink is already over)... I use it to etch hairs that I want to leave as white highlights between dark areas... you can use any pen that has no ink in it...

So, before I start with the hairs, I etch with this pen and then run the pencil over it. The pencil tip being broader than the etched pen lines, it cannot get inside the grooves so etched, this leaves the lines without any graphite... that is how I get the white-shining hairs (highlights)... its pretty simple.. u can try too.. I somehow discovered it...sometime back!!! :-D

Hope it helps you...

Comment by Anshul Chaurasia on May 17, 2012 at 10:18pm: yet another masterpiece! :)

hey can you tell which pencil you used for the initial outline? was it 8B or something harder?

also can you tell the use of finishing pen here, I don't know about that. Thanks a lot!

Comment by Soman Patnaik on May 1, 2012 at 12:35pm: Thank you so much Charu. Really appreciate it!!!

@Donna M Partha: Well.... Thank you so much. If I could write effectively... I would change to some extent what destiny has already written...he..he... then the titles would be so much more better and beautiful... what say?? Well.. at times I do write crap too... like this one...he...he...:-D!!!