Pencil portrait of Alisa by LateStarter63 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)
Graphite pencil drawing of Alisa on A4 Daler Rowney Airbrush Bristol board.
Pencils: Mars Lumograph (4B, HB, 5H), Masters B, Faber Castell 9000 (6B, 8B), mechanical pencils 0.3mm/2B, 0.5mm/4B with Pentel Ain Stein leads.
Indentation: Royal Langnickel Embossing tools.
Blending: Blending stump from Royal Langnickel, Cotton buds and paper tissues.
Erasing: WH Smith kneadable eraser, Tombow Mono Zero Ultra-fine eraser and Jakar battery electric eraser.
Photo adjustment using GIMP: Removal of barrel distortion; Cropping to A4 ratio and removal of perspective distortion; Cropping unfinished edges of drawing; Adjustment of histogram.
The reference that I used for this drawing was the lovely photo, Alisa . , by anarud.deviantart.com/ to whom I give my thanks for allowing me to make this drawing.
It was a very challenging drawing because of all that unruly blonde hair!
A 'Drawing Process' for this portrait can be seen here: :origin()/pre10/8feb/th/pre/i/2016/088/5/6/alisa_drawing_process_by_latestarter63-d9wx1sx.jpg)
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Alisa is the sister of Angelika :origin()/pre14/627e/th/pre/i/2015/356/1/f/pencil_portrait_of_angelika_by_latestarter63-d9l10lx.jpg)
. Some other of my recent drawings :origin()/pre08/1b54/th/pre/i/2015/308/9/d/pencil_portrait_of_a_tibetan_boy_by_latestarter63-d9fhr2u.jpg)
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