This drawing tutorial is on drawing and shading a stiletto with a 4B pencil. I believe this high hell pump was worn by Emma Watson.
For shading, I started shading in the darkest areas first which is the shoe itself. By establishing the darkest areas first, it will help you judge how dark all the other areas will need to be. If you go lightly at first, which is the safer way of drawing, you might end up darkening the same areas multiple times. Go as dark as you are comfortable with, but I believe the goal should be to shade it as close as possible with the first pass. It’s tough and I struggle with it too. But with practice, I believe I am getting better at it.
Also, make sure to draw what you see and not what you think a shoe should look like. The high heel shoe has many extreme angles, so make sure to check those elements when sketching the initial forms.
Drawing a great smile is actually harder than it looks in my opinion, especially when the teeth are shown. Keys to a successful smile drawing is:
Looks for subtleties in the shading on the lips. The forms are complex and attention to detail is important to show the fullness of the lips.
Don’t draw and shade in too much details in the teeth. Less is more when it comes to drawing teeth. If you draw too much detail and fill it with hard lines, the mouth becomes creepy looking. Save that for your horror drawings.
Make the lips shine. Especially for female lips, more shine, more gloss, equals for attractiveness.
Finally got a couple of new videos up. One is drawing and shading an eye. You can try to guess who it is, but it is kind of easy to guess since the finished drawing is on the thumbnail. I should blur the thumbnail inorder to entice you to actually watch the video, haha. The other one is drawing the character Sae-byeok (HoYeon Jung) from the ridiculously popular Korean series shown on Netflix, Squid Game. That drawing didn’t turn out too well. Hopefully it was just rust from not doing any serious drawing for over a year.
For the recording, I have a camera on me so that you can see me as well. Let me know if that helps with the quality of the video. I tend to like it when I can see the person in the videos when I am watching others. I find it nice to be able to put a face to the voice.
Painting in Photoshop again. Just a quick paint in the morning. Mostly using the oil brush and seems to work very well, much cleaner result than using a regular brush with opacity fade. Oh well, just trying to learn how to paint the ‘natural’ way in Photoshop. If there is even such a thing. And if I do get there, I will show you everything it took to get there.
Couple of new paintings in Photoshop using mostly the oil brush. The one with the cape which I will loosely call Vampirella was an old painting that I started long ago but never finished. I suppose that is one good thing about digital paintings, it can always be revisited. The other female figure which I will call Fetal is just more painting practice on getting the skin colors and forms correct. Hope you guys like it.
