Are you able to draw simple shapes, follow simple directions and enjoy drawing?
If so I'm confident I can get you to draw a pretty decent chance the rapper.
"When the praises go up,
The Blessings come down."
Copy the lines on each picture as closely as possible and follow my written narrative.
All you will need for this art piece will be eraser, sharpener, pencil set (ranging from at least a 2h-2b), shaders (q-tip) and of course your canvas/paper.
Ok, we will start off with the hat. really pay attention to the negative space we see. negative space is the area in between your subject and the edge of your frame. This will help you to learn to look at drawing bulk mass first rather then details right away.
Next draw these lines across the face very lightly, don't think of them as exact place holders rather just general guide lines for you to further envision placement of the eyes, as well as the angle of the face.
Next we can start to draw the simple shapes of the body, pay close attention to the angles as they are incredible important in capturing the likeness of your subject.
In order to get the placement and proportions of your lines correct, hold up a straight edge horizontal to your reference image. Take note as to what lines match up do these for multiple areas of your portrait to make sure everything is in the right place.
These next lines we will need to draw will distinguish the darkest shadows of the face.
Draw the shapes in for the neck shadows, mustache lips.
And now the inner ear details.
And then the little bike on the hat
A good range of tones in an art piece will make the difference between an ok and amazing drawing. so starting the shading we wont dive right into using the darkest pencil. start light and build your way up. this also prevents a lot of graphite mess on your page early into your art piece
Use your shader to smooth out the graphite and give it a much cleaner look
Again continue to darken the deepest shadows on the face only. This time use about a b grade pencil.
Go ahead and smooth out the graphite once again.
Now we are getting into the seconds level of shadows on the face, add in these new lines and shapes to separate your new tones
Use a 2h pencil and shade in those shapes you see done on the example picture. keep in mind the shades on the nose will not be very deep at all in finished product so don't get carried away with shading this area.
Use your shader to clean it up. if you end up shading in an area that should be lighter just go in with your eraser and touch it up.
Now its time to start adding line weight to our eyes. Use a darker pencil and make sure the tip is well sharpened.
Find all the darkest shadows on the face and color in where the shades don't get any darker and shade it in deep.
Do so all the dark shadows. Try to create a bit of a gradient where each time you go deeper, you pull back the shadow a little closer to the edges of the face. this makes the shadows look less hard and more organic.
Smooth them out.
Now we are getting quiet close to the finished product. We just have to touch up some finer details on the beard and shirt. then go one shade deeper for full contrast effect.
For the logo on the shirt draw in the half circles with "see beyond the struggle" in between as well as the little lines.
deepen the second darkest shadows further
real simply, roughly scribble in these areas here on the shirt then smooth them out to create the wrinkles and shadows.
Now finally to make your art piece pop. Shade in the background with a nice light pencil, And your done!
Send a up-vote my way if you liked this and would like to see more.
If you have requests for possible future drawings let me know in the comments.
I hope you all enjoyed the tutorial,
Barry F Samways
This is pretty amazing. You've got me thinking I may even be able to take a stab at this, and I have about zero artistic ability xD. BTW...
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@mk40 That is exactly what I am hoping for many people. talent is a strange word that truly just means someone has the desire and determination to do something and worked at it until it happened. no one is born being able to create art. I make these posts cause I love art. and if someone truly loves something isn't it better if they can help there be more of it! full permission to share this with who ever you so chose! I hope more people feel the same way about this post as you. cheers!
Great work
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@cheetah dear, we all know how hard you've been working. Maybe a little massage and recalibration would do the trick! :)
thanks for the acknowledgement here @karencarren, kind of annoying spending days on a post to have that spam-bot ruin my comment feed, and possibly have people lose faith in my validity. As always, appreciate your support! Steem on.
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Nice drawing
thank you :)
That's awesome. I took some drawing classes in college. It's been a while since I've practised my drawing skills, but I want to get back into it. Upvoted and Resteemed.
thanks for the resteem! much appreciated followed. btw never a bad time to start drawing again ;D its good for the soul. maybe even try this!
Dude thats actaully amazing :D
~~Cheers
glad you like it! I appreciate your feed back
Awesome work more talent like this needs to be here!
Respect. followed
@barrysamways OMG! Someone just copied your art and took it as their own. I let steemcleaners know. https://steemit.com/kr/@jeicko19/6ddxqo
Thank you so much @Karencarrens I appreciate you bringing this to my attention good looking out. You know... I'm not happy with how steemit is treating me with this post.. I legitimately spend lengthy amounts of time trying to contribute to this community and give it something of value. and I have bots tagging me as plagiarist, and accounts ACTUALY PLAGURISING ME! Doesn't feel good this guy needs to be stopped I commented on the post and he just reposted it again
@barrysamways it will all work out. Just keep doing what you're doing. The bot thing will be resolved. I'm sure of it. Same with that guy.
pretty upsetting that someone is currently receiving votes for my hard work.... I fear because its in Japanese it may never be stopped. is there moderators on steemit that can controlee this kind of thing?
This is actually some amazing work! I see why my fellow curator has nominated you! Cheers
Love your art. Thank you for sharing.
Barry, Bazza, the big B, your drawings are amazing, I'm just starting out on both pen, paper and steemit. Inspirational.
Hahaha thanks so much very kind. If you have any questions about art don't hesitate to ask I'm always happy to help! steem on
So Freaking RAD!
thanks so much!
Nice drawing and tutorial dude!
followed and upvoted
very nice ! thank you for sharing
thanks for looking! more to come stay tuned. cheers
Awesome pictures, really cool. Thanks for sharing : ) @barrysamways
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Interesting post.I follow you.
thank you
O weeee this progression is epic. Bob Ross would be proud :)
Keep doing great things buddy
hahaha xD thanks
You're welcome :)
Looks like Nelly.
Cool... I wonder how the pics would look if you flipped through them like a mini flip book animation.. You might want to upload the shots to Google photos, I thing there is a tool where it takes all similar pictures and makes it into a mini action clip. Just a thought ... If you do it and it works, re-post I would like to see a mini animation of your art work!
haha that would be a cool thing to see however, the point of this post is for people to take their time and look at each image closely to copy the lines and create this their selves worth looking into tho thanks!
@barrysamways....Interesting post
@fahrullah
Impressive level of skill!! Where did you learn to draw this way?
years of practice lol always loved art ever since the first time I drew the dragon in the poster on my wall when I was 9 years old :) since then every time I see a dragon I get inspired
well go ahead!
love the shading on this :)