Sketch Study ( Girl With Hair Like a Cloud )

Back with my Sketching every Week Series . This week's Sketch study was really a fun one because I love find cool references for practice and I found this one girl with her hair like the mad hatter . The hair also Resembled clouds so here I'm trying to sketch it out .

So mostly I do Andrew Loomis method or the following shapes method. For this I actually did both like I looked at shapes to sketch out the hair and hand but for the face I did some Andrew Loomis method that makes my sketch really muddy and gray so I use a Kneadable erasure and just use a 2h Pencil to sketch the lines that I want to keep .

After the sketch was a bit refined it was the time to shade so I grabbed my 3b pencil . Make sure your pencils are always sharpened I used the hatching technique near the nose and to form the cheek bones give a lil cast shadow to the hair that were on the face , I also defined the eyebrows and lips at this point . This time I went with a very subtle shading less is more so I only did t the points with most shadow adding some values . Next I shade the hair too doing some spiral and curls in her hair and I really loved the hairstyle then I blended it all with a blending stump . After blending I defined the negative spaces by outlining tbh the hands look a bit wider but . That's the whole point you keep drawing and get better and better with time .

I changed the bangs to more of a heart like bangs and This is the final Result .

I see growth and my artworks getting better and better each day .

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