While trying to experiment with drawing realistic portraits, I’ve found that I have a natural style in mixing realism with cartoon-like animation, where the people in my drawings look fairly realistic, with features that are more exaggerated or outlined.
This drawing was a way for me to experiment with realistic portraits, by practicing using my friend as the subject. To see if my proportions were accurate enough, I sent the drawing to multiple other friends, asking whether they recognized him, even partially completed.
I remember you struggling while drawing this, but it came out really well – it looks super lively, and the stylistic shading gives it a lot of character.
– Megan
Yes!!! He turned out so well!! I really like your shading of his hand, and woahh the clothes!
It’s a nice style, kind of a photograph kind of feel? It was fun using him as our model that once class haha Nice job!!