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starting by sketching one feature

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start shading in one of the eyes

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avoid shading too heavily at the start

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avoid outlining all of the features with

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fill in the hair with the pencil

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apply very light pressure with the pencil

5:15

added the black pencil to the sides of the nose

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start outlining all of the features

7:17

start moving around that graphite or color pencil on the hair

7:53

avoid using blending stumps for large areas

8:14

starting of a realistic drawing

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sketch out the contour areas

9:02

apply a smooth layer

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sweep the blending stump from one edge to the other

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build up the eyebrow

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add the eyebrow hairs coming out of the skin

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repeat the process for the other eye

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blend it out with a relatively clean blending stump

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picking out some of the darker areas like the nostrils

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drawing a dark centerline on the mouth

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layer some of the tone on to the upper lips

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applying your shading

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apply a lot of pressure onto your pencil

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go in in layers and then darken

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lift off some of the graphite without it being too strong

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blocked in all of the main sections of the hair

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draw your hair in terms of clumps

23:30

mark out the structure of the hair

24:07

fade down my pencil strokes at different points

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add some of the darker flyway hairs

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DO'S & DON'TS: How To Draw a Face | Realistic Drawing Tutorial Step by Step
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