Have you ever felt like your portrait sketches look kinda weird before adding in the details?
They always look sort of creepy and alien like to me but I’m into it. I’m stubborn enough to work at the same image until it starts looking the way I want it to. I’m still practicing everyday to get better because I’m not where I want to be with head shapes and drawing images that are facing forward.
My main goal for competing this face is to use it as a blank canvas for coloring and character design. I find myself devoting hours to painting skin, playing around with makeup ideas and hair. I’ll be sure to devote my next post to several different looks I can accomplish using this face.
As always, my sketches are drawn on the iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil using the Procreate App.
I started off using the hemp brush tool that’s listed under the organic brush tools.
For those of you who are familiar with how I draw and have watched some of my time lapse drawings, you’ve probably noticed that I usually start my drawings with an eye or an eyebrow. It’s bizarre for me to sketch out a rough head shape but again, I’m trying to master something that I’m not strong at.
I then went in with a second layer to add further details with my pencil p4 brush which was downloaded from the Procreate forum.
I pinched the screen on my iPad to zoom in and started to softly pencil in detailed facial features in the eyes, nose and lips. I drew in the brows like I normally would too. I wanted to get the facial features to a point where I was happy then I could select everything and center it on the head.
The last thing I did was liquify. It’s my new favorite tool from the latest update for Procreate. This head shape went from being super blocky to having more curves.