shading

Finally completed it... :-)

This is an experiment, I was trying to make a paper doll. I haven't cut out the pieces yet, but I'll post a picture tomorrow with the doll wearing the clothes. I also experimented with shading on the hair, and a different way of drawing it. I'm really sorry the picture is on it's side, I will fix that next time I do one of these.

Plan to make the horses more unrecognizable and then go over the whole thing with sharpie adding shading and texture

This is my latest project as of March 15th. It was a request from my cousin. It is based off his original photograph. As you can see, i’m just putting the base shade on it. I’ll have to add the details of the fur after the shading is dark enough

I decided one day to do some shading on one of my little cartoon fairies. This is the result. A fun little piece featuring a fairy and little lightning bug discovering each other. :)

Sleep Time .... good practice in shading.

this is my attempt at drawing a mountain. the shading is done by using a bunch of little dots on the darker sides.

8 x 12 graphite on paper

Didn't get a chance to finish the piece I wanted to for today's Inktober. I decided to finish up an old piece that I have had sitting around for awhile. Just some quick shading. Will hopefully be able to finish my other drawing tomorrow.

Not perfect but it’s start.

Used blendable shading markers and a red copic maker for the Cape

She saw something in the darkness... something magnificent and horrific.

working on shading using stippling

Finished this up. Not particularly a fan of Barcelona, but greatness is where it is. It’s funny, no matter how dark I make shadows and shading, I always feel I could have gone darker.

so I did this cause I wanted to see how my anatomy was being put to a test. It came out better than I had expected.

Final drawing 6 of 6. Here I fine tuned the piece. Spent some time on the shirt and wrinkles. Added little details like moles and neck creases. Finished up areas of shading. I had a heck of a time on his right eye. It’s the one area I couldn’t get quite to my liking but it is what it is. Overall, I like how this came out.

Progression 5 of 6. At this point his face is nearly done and I’ve begun to fill in the shirt. There is still more shading and fine tuning and details needed on to finish off his face, but at this point in a drawing I like to begin filling in the other details to keep some cohesion to the overall piece.

Progression 3 of 6. In this one, I focused on the hair some more, his ear, fine tuned the eye and add shading to his face.

Progression 1 of 6. This first pic is of the line work and the background shading.

Portrait sketch in progress. Using the grid system to assist me with proportions. Using just a pencil for sketching and shading.

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Progression 3 of 5. Added more shading and detail. I noticed I got his mouth wrong and fixed it.

Progression 2 of 5. In this one I added shading to his face and neck and scetched out the hair. His ears were a bit tricky too since they are as distinctive as his eyes.

A boy flipping through pages while his dog looks on. Done with a black Pilot pen.

This is an old piece I did for a shading assignment in high school art class. 3 techniques of shading used: tonal value, hatching and cross hatching

This was a piece I drew on some Bristol board. The original was sold, but I scanned it in and threw some color and shading on it.

Progression image 3 of 6. 11x14 Marker paper, Medium Graphite Pencils (asst. B-5B). Added some shading and fleshed out her lips some.

Done using various pencils.

Work in progress. I've always been fascinated by the poison dart frog. It is as ferociously cute as it is poisonous ;). View all my work on Instragram: @CritiQ