Monochrome drawing - Just completed one more

Good day everyone. I hope we've all been good and this post meets you at a very nice time.

I'm writing about my recently completed work. In my last post, I mentioned that I got commissioned to make two drawings of which the first post was that of a lady. Well, this is the second drawing and it's that of a guy.

I started this work as I was really skeptical about the reference picture because the picture did not really meet my quality and taste but who am I to decide what picture a client wants to draw or not??? I've just got to do what I do best, represent it on paper.

Tools

• Gloss cardboard
• GpC charcoal pencil soft and med
• GpC graphite pencil 8b
• Tortilion and blending stumps
• tombow mono eraser 0.7mm
• kneaded eraser
• Mechanical pencil 0.4mm

First step was grinding out the paper I intend to work on. Now this work is on a 12 by 16 inches gloss cardboard paper. So I have 12 boxes horizontally and 16 boxes vertically.

I then represent the figure in thin sketches on the grid and begin to shade. Since the reference picture was not so defined, I had to do light shades on the whole face before I started to add the really dark shades that the face has... I moved to the beards and stroked away. There's no magic about this, it's basically just short short strokes pulled together . - I still was not feeling the work yet.

I proceeded to shading the hair. I had to layer the hair four times... First layering was a dark shade, second was very very short light strokes, third was another baptism of very short but darker strokes. Fourth strokes were thick few very dark strokes.

I moved to the cloth and shaded away. Wasn't a lot of work as the shirt had very little patterns and it was easily replicable. I also added a very simple background

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Now here's both works beside each other shortly before I framed

Here are the framed works.

Tha k you for reading

I am Stephen Nevets Art