10-27-2021, 04:26 PM
I'm quite liking your ballpoint drawing over the pencil here. The pencil is very soft and blurred, where the ballpoint was more deliberate in defining shapes.
You might like to use negative space a bit more to avoid the round/softness of the pencil. If you have one of the eraser pens - or the battery powered rotating eraser, you can work into the pencil using eraser to sculpt the form a bit more. Break up the thick blurred lines around faces, highlight cheekbones without overcompensating with the shading. Just a thought.
*Edited to add I've even cut up an eraser and held bits with a pair of tweezers to get some really fine detail in sketches.
You might like to use negative space a bit more to avoid the round/softness of the pencil. If you have one of the eraser pens - or the battery powered rotating eraser, you can work into the pencil using eraser to sculpt the form a bit more. Break up the thick blurred lines around faces, highlight cheekbones without overcompensating with the shading. Just a thought.
*Edited to add I've even cut up an eraser and held bits with a pair of tweezers to get some really fine detail in sketches.