This is kind of a beginners drawing tutorial. It’s very basic and this is pretty much how I draw everything, even if it is on the computer. Overall drawing this and scanning it in took me about 2 hours. With practice, this is really all you need to know in order to draw and pick up chicks. This is what I was taught in Drawing I when I was still in school, and that was probably the most useful class I ever took.

It is important to keep up your traditional drawing skills, there aren’t many good artists currently creating nice pencil drawings because they are doing most of their work on the computer. It is just as important if not more important to keep drawing on real paper and not on screen.

Our reference is the somewhat attractive Megan Fox. I need an image to keep your attention span =). Here is a larger version

1 kneaded eraser

2-3 pencils – 1 6h pecil, 1 2b pencil, and 1 6b pencil.

Pencil Sharpner

And nice paper, Bristol board is good. Use smooth paper so that you can create your own texture.

If your really new to drawing, bring a few peices of paper, it will take several tries until you get your desired result.

I cannot emphasize this first step enough, it is the most important step. If you finish this step and the image does not remotley look like your reference, then chances are the finish product won’t either. It took me a few tries to get everything placed right and looking good, I was erasing as much as I was drawing.

Use your hard lead/light drawing pencil and sketch lightly.

Start with her right (our left) eye. Then draw the other eye, then nose, and then sketch in the right side of her face. Then lips, shoulder, and then the rest of her face and hair line.

The distance between someones eyes is usually 1 eye length apart, and the nose is two eye length’s down. To bad everybody looks different otherwise this rule will be true. Use good judgement to determine how everything is placed. Her left (our right) eye is a little less than an eye length apart, and down abit, her head is tilted. Her forhead I figured to be about 2.5 eye lengths up at a slight angle. Since she is looking down, her ear is going to be up higher than normal, pretty close to eye level actually. Her ear seams to be about 2.5 eye lengths over.

Once that looked good I sketched in everything else. You can see where I had to add more hair to her head at the top, since it’s a dark area I didn’t bother erasing it. Still use the same hard lead or 6h pencil.

These first couple of steps, the lines may seem dark, but that is because I had to change the contrast onscreen because you wouldn’t be able to see the lines. This is what my sketch really looks like so far:

This is usually when I take a quick break, go for a walk, watch some TV, or work on another project. When you come back you will see your drawing the way your suppose to see it, and not how you want to see it.

When you come back and it looks similar to this:

You should probably start over.

The next step is shading, before we do anything you need to understand value. Here is a quick diagram:

Still using the same pencil, start drawing in some of the shadows on the hair and her clothes(?). Draw in the direction of the hair, and cross hatch in the area of her clothes. When it comes to drawing a girl, use nice curves, and very few sharp angles.

I also drew her left shoulder to far out, I made the changes and so far so good. When drawing, it is ok to keep it messy, DO NOT use your finger to smooth out the marks. It will either look like the garbage in my trash can or that you stole a mannequin from a Victoria’s Secret store. Leave the texture even if it is unwanted, it’s your personal mark and it will seperate you from other artists. All that matters is that the light areas are light, and the dark areas are dark.

Start doing some light shading on the face. Stay on the forhead and the darkest area of her jaw to start, keep it light, really light. Slowly make the areas darker. It’s best to start the pencil mark in the darkest area and then move towards the lightest, cover an area doing that, then cover the same area again but make the lines shorter and pressing down a little bit harder on the pencil. That is probably the easiest way to create a nice gradient of contrast.

Do more shading to the face, shading in closer to the brightest parts of her face. Leave the brightest areas white, we want white whites and black blacks.

This is when I changed to a darker pencil, 2B. start making the dark areas dark, starting with the eyes.

It’s hard to tell but there is more light shading on her face, making the darker areas a little darker. Such as around her jaw bone, nose, and forehead, and really trying to give more depth to her face. I’m still using the 2B pencil, but still draw lightly and apply the dark areas where necessary.

I’ve darkened her hair a lot here. (the image here may look differen then the one up top, since it’s darker I don’t have to change the contrast on the computer).

Here I am darkening the piece overall, especially in her hair, back, and on the edges of her face. I’m also adding some individual strands of hair, those need to stand out as well.

This step I’m just making the midtone areas a little darker, make the image stand out a bit more. I’m pretty much ignoring the reference and using my own judgement to make it look nice.

Finally, almost done. Here I decided to pretty much shade in all of her hair with my darkest pencil, 4b (couldn’t find my 6b or 8b pencils) and drew over the highlighs. Then with my kneaded eraser, I erased where the highlights were on her hair. Much easier then trying to draw around the highlights.

There you have it! You can read all the tutorials and buy all the magical pencils in the world, but the best way to learn to draw is to just simply draw.

On a side note I also ignored her tattoo, I don’t like tattoos on girls, sorry.