The portrait is of my best friend Brielle. We have been friends since 6th grade, so we've been friends for about 4-5 years. We bonded over math homework in the YMCA and we are kind of the opposite of each other, but we are the embodiment of when people say opposites attract. She is the closest and longest friend I have, I trust her more than anyone else I know and she is a wonderful person with so many talents and interests and she is so sociable. We hangout a lot and a lot of my many fun and happy moments and memories were with her. For my portrait I used the medium, pencil. I chose pencil because it's easier to erase of get rid of any mistakes you make when you draw with pencil. It's also easier to add value since it can be both really light and really dark, depending how hard you press and also there is a wide range of different pencils that vary in lightness and darkness, like 2H is really light and 8B is really dark. It's also easier to shade and blend out pencil as fell and to get those fine, small details you want in a portrait. First, I I started with the outline of the head or the face and then drew another outline of the general shape of her hair. Then I drew another outline of the general shape of her neck and her chest and a flower for the design of her outfit and then the outline of the shoulder. Then I went in and drew the outline/shape of the front most eye and drew the pupil, added the little light reflections in the eyes and colored in the whole pupil except the light reflections. Then I added the cat eye or eyeliner on her eye, then drew the eyelid and the eyebags and then I drew the nose. Next, after the nose, I drew the other eye, with its light reflections and colored it in and it's eyelid. Then, I drew the eyebrow for both of them. Then I drew the mouth and the teeth, and added little lines on the lips for texture and detail. Then I added shading to the face and it's features, I added in the contour line or the line of the cheekbone, shaded the forehead and the jaw line and the chin and added in the and shaded the smile lines and the area between the nose and the top lip. I added shading over and under the eye on the eyelids and the eye bags and the left side the face and the area under the left eye and shaded a little bit of the edges of both eyes and shaded the lips. Then I worked on the hair in sections, I first started on the left side with the huge curl of hair, the two little pieces/ sections of curls on the left side of the face and then added a bunch of swirls and curls for hair on the left side of the face. Then I did the top of the head, doing the hair style she head in the reference picture, I added the hair line and then did the the sections of curls on the right side of the face that goes down her right shoulder, making sure to make it look curly and adding highlights or reflection of light on the hair in the correct places. Then I did the the sections of curls the go down the back and then added a bunch of stray hairs to make the hair look more realistic and natural. Then I went in with dark and light pencils and blending tools and did the shading on the neck and the shoulder and the outfit/chest and did a little bit of blending on the hair area. Then I just fixed up the shading on the face and it's feature, like the nose and anything else and other details I felt needed more detail or needed a little fixing and a little less or more shading. What I find successful is the hair and the eyes, I really like the hair and how it looks so realistic and curly and looks like just like my friend's hair, it's very similar. I like the huge curl on the left side the most, I find it the most realistic and appealing and I the the hair on the right side flows so well and also looks very curly and realistic and the highlights on the hair looks very accurate and considering I went in not really knowing how to do hair, I very proud. The eyes I also thought were successful, I really like the light reflections and the slight lighter parts in the pupils and the eyes look really realistic and the shading is really realistic and pretty. I would fix the dark and black mass under the left side of the face that was supposed to be the hair, it doesn't look like it's a part of the hair and doesn't fit well or fade well into the bunch of curls and swirls I also added on the left side of the face. I also would lighten the shading on the shoulder, cause it doesn't really match the skin on the face, it's a little darker and also I would make the outfit a lighter or darker because It looks too similar to darker and more shaded areas on the face and the shoulder.
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