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eye_of_toad) wrote2022-09-06 09:44 pm
eye_of_toad) wrote2022-09-06 09:44 pm
Jared Padalecki
This is a warm-up that I'm counting more toward my "fill up sketchbook #11" goal more than my "re-draw Jared Padalecki" goal.
The big thing I need to figure out — that after years of practicing this same drawing over and over I still have never even really attempted — is how to accurately depict stubble. How the heck do you draw stubble?! I can't wrap my brain around it and thus far I've kind of just given up and added a lot of rough scribbles as an afterthought. (Every time I do this, I sort of curse my choice of a stubble photo. Why didn't a pick a clean-shaven photo reference? Why didn't I just pick a woman to draw for my art-progress comparison? Why Mr. Scruff?)
I will attempt another version of this sometime this month and see if I can't put actual effort into the stubble (and the eyelashes and eyebrows ... basically all the short hair is hard).
Anyhow, here's my Jared Padalecki collection to date:
Progress? (I don't think the new one is that much better of a result than the 2020 version, but I know I spent a lot less time and effort on it, so I feel there's a definite improvement in the ratio of effort-to-results.)
The big thing I need to figure out — that after years of practicing this same drawing over and over I still have never even really attempted — is how to accurately depict stubble. How the heck do you draw stubble?! I can't wrap my brain around it and thus far I've kind of just given up and added a lot of rough scribbles as an afterthought. (Every time I do this, I sort of curse my choice of a stubble photo. Why didn't a pick a clean-shaven photo reference? Why didn't I just pick a woman to draw for my art-progress comparison? Why Mr. Scruff?)
I will attempt another version of this sometime this month and see if I can't put actual effort into the stubble (and the eyelashes and eyebrows ... basically all the short hair is hard).
Anyhow, here's my Jared Padalecki collection to date:
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| 2017 April Crayola colored pencils sketchbook #1 | 2018 January Faber-Castell colored pencils sketchbook #1 | 2018 August 6b graphite pencil sketchbook #3 |
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| 2019 October Pilot Precise pen + water sketchbook #3 | 2020 December Blick markers Faber-Castell colored pencils sketchbook #5 | 2022 September Blick markers Copic markers Faber-Castell colored pencils sketchbook #11 |
Progress? (I don't think the new one is that much better of a result than the 2020 version, but I know I spent a lot less time and effort on it, so I feel there's a definite improvement in the ratio of effort-to-results.)
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