A SORT OF PORTRAIT SKRIBBLE TUTORIAL THINGY
Wot you have all bin waitin for ;^)
Part 10 ~ Time to start planning the next one ;^)
OK This is it ~ Several or five hours of skribblin and three times that and a bit of cropping, resizing, HTML and cursing....... something over 20 hours in the making!! I hope that by the end of this page, my tutorial thingy will have answered one or two of your questions :^)
10. FINAL RESULT
Just the finishing touches to put into the skribble now. There will be an hour or so at the end where I will keep the piccy to hand and look at it with fresh eyes from time to time......... every now and again I will spot something that needs a little more or less tone, sometimes the changes are minute and would seem hardly worth bothering with to a non-skribbler ;^)
10.1
Here I'm putting in more tone to the hair behind the neck and shoulders to increase the contrast and give darker shadows. I'm using an HB and 2B pencils, the blacker pencil for deeper shadow.
10.2
More hair tone and maybe a final tweak to flesh........ sometimes it's hard to know when to stop LOL.
10.3
Quite a debate went on in my head as to whether I should leave the pic "as is" or colour her frock?????? In the end the pencil won and I lay down about 2 kilos of 2B graphite ;^D
10.4
A nice big, chunky commercial blending stump, saturated with graphite is used to give some even heavyweight tone to her costume......... I have quite deliberately not put any "detail" into this area so as not to detract from the facial portrait......... ;^D
10.5
This is the last piccy I took of the skribble with my digi-Kodak and it is showing a bit of false perspective coz of the angle I took the pic at. Next step is to scan.
10.6
Here's the scan, done on a wizzy Sharp A3 scanner/copier at 300 dpi. The image is saved as a 256 level grayscale bitmap and then imported into Ulead iPhoto Plus 4, resized and saved as a JPEG
10.7
Just a quick compare of the two images. I don't want anybody to think that they can't produce good pencil skribbles..... All it takes is a commitment to putting in the effort and time, the only difference between the two images here is about 4 hours 50 minutes.
10.8
I hope that this tutorial thingy has helped somebody in some small way. Gimme some feedback and let me know, or if there are any questions that this tutorial or my FAQ don't cover. I can usually be found online hanging around at The Garden Forum, where there are much more talented, skilled and artistically able people than me to be found, or you can email me through my Elfwood Gallery or by clicking Tutorial Mail.
