It’s been a while. I was busy and then simply lazy, but I finally finished it. It’s far from perfect, I’m not happy with the face, but working on an A4 paper is just a pain when drawing a whole figure, the face is so small then that doing details is truly a great challenge. One wrong move and everything looks just wrong… I don’t think I’ll ever do that mistake again and draw a whole person on such a small sheet.
I seem to be unable to just announce it done and leave it be… but at least now I think I’m close to finishing, well closer 🙂
As I’ve been saying, I worked on my last drawing. As Adrian Jordan suggested (and I’m very grateful for that comment), I got rid of the outline.
Eduardo, or Michael for he purposes of my novel
I think I might work a bit more on the hair…
My latest work. In my humble opinion, it’s not so bad. 🙂
As a reference I used a photo of  Eduardo Verástegui, who has just the perfect face. Now, now, I’m not falling for him on anything. His face is how I’m picturing the face of a character in my novel that I’m writing (that’s just one more hobby of mine, one that hopefully one day will end up on a shelf in a bookstore). I can’t really draw without a reference, so I’ve been looking for that face for quite a long time. I found it and I just had to draw it 🙂 And since I found more than one picture of Eduardo AKA Michael (the mentioned character), you can expect more drawings.  🙂
Kids develop in jumps. One day they’re simply sitting and Boom! all of the sudden they’re crawling around. Apparently same goes for my drawing. I had a longish break in drawing, when I finally got back to it, I looked at it differently. I took my time, I played around with shading, tried to perfect every line. But most importantly I began using grid, it’s the first thing I do when drawing. Thanks to the grid, I no longer worry about proportions 🙂 I’m also braver with shading.
The first of the following drawings isn’t perfect. In my defense let me say my reference picture was poor quality, with almost no shading.
Now, with this second one, the reference was of a good quality and in my humble opinion, it shows 🙂
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