Pencil portrait of an uplit girl by LateStarter63 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Graphite pencil portrait of an uplit girl on A4 Daler Rowney Airbrush Bristol board.

I have made a video compilation of the drawing process photos. Click this thumbnail to view the upload of this:

Pencils: Mars Lumograph (5H, F), Faber Castell 9000 (6B and 8B) , Faber Castell PITT Pure Graphite 9B, mechanical pencils 0.2mm/2B, 0.3mm/2B, 0.5mm/4B with Ain Stein leads.
Blending: Blending stump by Boldmere, small brush, and paper tissues.
Erasing: W H Smith kneadable eraser, Tombow Mono Zero Ultra-fine eraser, Jakar battery eraser.

Graphite and eraser dust removal: UN Lens Blower Brush.

Photography of drawing: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS10 compact camera, tripod and easel. A dark cloth was used behind the camera to eliminate reflection from the graphite shine.

Photo adjustment of the photo of the drawing so that it closely resembles the drawing itself using GIMP: Removal of barrel distortion; Cropping to A4 ratio and removal of perspective distortion; Cropping unfinished edges of drawing; Adjustment of histogram.

I thank Thomas Rüdesheim (pixabay.com/en/users/sl3p3r-78…) for giving his photo, pixabay.com/en/child-girl-face…, a Pixabay licence, making it free to use in altered or unaltered form.

I chose to draw this lovely portrait because of the unusual lighting and also because of the unusual bokeh on the bright hairs, particularly in the bottom left of the drawing. I keep seeing details with which I am not satisfied, but the time has come to say that I must stop.

Strangely this drawing and the other two (thumbnails below) that I made from Pixabay photos were all made while I was alone at home, my wife having gone on holiday to warmer climes with her sister!

I have made two other drawings from photos by different photographers from Pixabay. Click these thumbnails to view these drawings: