This week I decided to draw a picture of my grandmother. It is a little complex because I have to do some shading. I watched a couple YouTube videos on how to shade. I have practiced a couple times and believe I am ready to start. The method I am going to use is the grid method. I am going to use the picture of her on her eulogy because I think it will work best. First I had to print out the picture. I had to re-print a couple times because I couldn´t get the size right. The materials I used were a number 2 pencil, a piece of paper, eraser, and a ruler. After I printed out the picture I made a 1in. grid on it and my other piece paper. I made sure to do it very lightly so I could erase the lines at the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WR-FyUQc6I - How to shade link I did the outline of her face and started to shade it. It took me two days to complete so, a little longer than the last one. I think it turned out really well and would I recommend using the grid method. If I could do anything differently I would have went box by box. At the beginning I didn´t shade by going box by box and at the end it turned out I shaded it wrong. I had to go back and add some more shading to pretty much the whole picture. Another tip I learned from this is to draw very lightly and also shade light to dark. The most time consuming part of the whole drawing was to get the outline of her nose, mouth, and eyes the right shape. The eyes are the hardest because you have to draw two that are very similar. I messed up a couple times and if I drew to dark I could see the lines erase lines. Overall, this turned out pretty dang good in my standards. I hope to keep learning new things about shading.
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David
4/1/2021 04:05:15 pm
This drawing of your grandmother is great!
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