Drawing by Sandhya

I happened to watch your video on why drawing from a photo is treacherous and was quite impressed with it. This led me into this drawing course and now I am a very happy and keen learner. Thank you for such a wonderful course!

I am submitting one of my works for your valuable feedback. Although I have to admit that I have committed the sin of drawing from a photograph…

I often don’t find the courage to draw from real life because of the time I take to render it. In fact I stretch into days to complete any work, is this normal?

How do I speed up the process?

I also used only HB pencil to draw and found that I was making hard marks to obtain dark tones. Then I had to switch to 5B pencil to achieve it. As a student how many different pencils should I ideally use?

Sandhya

Hi Sandhya,

Thank you very much for your drawing, it looks very good, well done.

Regarding your question on how to achieve dark tones in graphite pencil, you may check the answer here:
//drawingacademy.com/how-to-achieve-dark-tones-in-graphite-drawing

You may also find these articles interesting:
//drawingacademy.com/how-to-draw-exactly-what-i-see

Speed is a sub-product of good drawing skills, not vice versa.

To your creative success,
Vladimir

To learn how to draw skillfully,