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A Portrait of My Nieces - Portrait Sketching With Time-Lapse Video
These beautiful young ladies are my nieces. Several months ago, one of them approached me and asked if I could sketch a portrait of her and her sister. I said yes, of course, I could. I had several commissioned portraits in the queue so it took me a couple of months to finally finished sketching this. People asked me why do I love to draw people's portraits and the answer is always every individual that I drew has their own stories, their own struggles, their own joys. And I would like to bring out the "essence of an individual" through my work using my own interpretations. And I always pray for every person I drew. I pray they would always be well, be blessed, and be held by the loving God whenever they are going through trials in their lives. **Progress Photos** I managed to take several progress photos but you could also watch the time-lapse video of me drawing it from start to finish.
I always start a drawing from left to right to avoid smudging or smearing the graphite and dirtying the paper.
I recorded myself while drawing using an old iPhone 6 and a basic tripod.
**Materials I used:** Acid-free 170gsm A3 paper Various sketching pencils grade H to 12B. I used 4 different pencil brands - Staedler Lumograph, Derwent Graphic, Mitsubishi 9800, Martol, Faber Castell 9000. My favorite is Derwent Graphic and I used it the most. Faber Castell putty eraser Daler Rowney Perfix Fixative spray to set the graphite Simple and inexpensive materials but still produced exquisite results 😁 **Time-lapse Video** https://youtu.be/45zc-Q30Nwc That's it for now. If you read this far, thank you. I appreciate it so much! Kindly give me a follow/tip/sponsor if you like my content. I mostly write about making art, life musing, and our mundane yet charming family life here in Klang Valley, Malaysia. **Thank you for visiting and reading my post. I hope you like it!** My First NFT Collection – Stencil 2017 – Is Now Available On OpenSea https://opensea.io/collection/stencil-2017
6 comments
Simply beautiful portraits! The art of realism you highlight very well. Congratulations!
Thank you so much for your kind words :)
Wow! This is so beautiful, you're so talented ma'am. Did you learn how to draw? Or you were birthed with it; as a talent? This is really superb
Thank you! I am self-taught, never taken any professional course in the arts.
The drawing is great, I love the result. I hope you have a lot of success with your next works.
Thank you so much. Glad that you loved it :)