A few days ago, I decided to draw another face. I started with the eyes, nose, and mouth. It was looking like the last realistic drawing I made of a face, except I think I scaled the features more realistically this time. Then, it was time to draw the hair. In my last drawing of a person, I drew the hair quickly by going back and forth with my pencil. This time, I decided to try to add more detail. I drew one hair at a time, not lifting my pencil until I reached the end of each strand. I was able to pause in the middle of a strand and start again without changing the thickness as long as my pencil's point stayed on the paper.
I started each strand where the part was at the top of the head, and then only moved down. I drew some bangs that were also parted. Surprisingly, drawing each hair did not take much longer than shading in the hair would have, and it looked more natural. I felt more focused when working on this drawing than the last one. Drawing each detail individually was very enjoyable. I was thinking of adding more hair or shading, but I did not want to make the details I had already added hard to see. Next time, I will try to draw more strands of hair.
Instead of adding shading to the rest of the face with shadows, I drew small, light horizontal lines. At first, I worried this would look like facial hair, but the more I added, the more the lines made the drawing appear more three dimensional.
Next Thursday, I am going to post a video showing how to draw realistic eyes on my YouTube channel, Varietygirl1.
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