{"id":7815,"date":"2023-06-07T22:53:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T12:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/?p=7815"},"modified":"2023-06-07T22:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T12:53:03","slug":"grandson-portrait-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/07\/grandson-portrait-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandson portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ptzs_grandson-portrait.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ptzs_grandson-portrait-734x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7798\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This one was interesting to draw! As always, displaying my Photoshop Takes Zero Skill heavily filtered pic, but I do want to post some WIPs too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to try something different for this &#8211; I really like the angle and lighting of this shot, but it was too daunting to approach with pencil because it was extremely black heavy, and I don&#8217;t like having to spend so much pencil lead on paper because it&#8217;s so tedious, not to mention the graphite goes everywhere and is prone to smudging! So I decided to start my digital canvas black, and worked my way towards white. It kind of worked???<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wip-grandson-bw-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wip-grandson-bw-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7812\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I know, red&#8217;s kind of default for drawing on black. I did consider doing a hot pink sketch, but decided against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wip-grandson-bw-4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wip-grandson-bw-4-1024x615.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7809\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay so I guess it&#8217;s still black on white, I didn&#8217;t actually succeed at the whole white on black project XD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wip-grandson-bw-7.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wip-grandson-bw-7-1024x583.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7806\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ugh hair. Tight curls uuuugh. I do still enjoy hair though. It&#8217;s clothes I hate! I had a hard time trying to figure out how his jacket was made, and then I realised it&#8217;s a denim jacket with a hoodie, so I had to go back and edit the right side (his left) and then redo the left side (his right) entirely!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also fudged a lot of the heavy blacks because my phone accentuates the contrast; my monitor is actually a few shades lighter, but I can&#8217;t be bothered calibrating my monitor because then I can&#8217;t see anything with the glare in the daytime&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wip-grandson-bw-10.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wip-grandson-bw-10-1024x622.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7803\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And the rest is history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it&#8217;s the best digital drawing I&#8217;ve done yet, but that&#8217;s also because I took out any challenges I had with colour. 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