Hello Steemians! My time so far on Steemit has been absolutely amazing, the community is such a wonderful one filled with beautiful people who all wish to help each other which is honestly amazing. From my first post I've had nothing but warm welcomes, lovely comments and helpful feedback, it's a shame I didn't know about this sooner but I'm happy I'm here now.
Considering I've done a few posts I thought it'd only be right that you guys are able to put a face to the username Dangerouslyhigh, and rather than just a picture of myself I thought I'd also add a self portrait. Now I haven't done a portrait in a year or so, so this was fairly new ground for me but I hope you like it.
So I started off by roughly drawing the overall shape of the head and then mapping out where I felt things should go, trying to get the proportions as spot on as I could.
Next I started adding some detail, now I've always found eyes the easiest part to start adding detail to plus they're one of the most important parts to get right as they really play a part on how the final bit will look, so that's where I decided to begin.
After that I started ever so lightly shading the area's that were gonna be darkest, mapping out the most bold parts where the majority of shading will take place. The left part of the face, the bridge of the nose where the light doesn't hit and around the eyes.
Once I had that done, it was all about building up the shading. If you don't have the shadowed area's as dark as they need to be you're not gonna be able to see the contrast between the light and dark shading, so I repeatedly shaded over the same areas again and again using different pencils for each layer, slowly building it up.
From then on it was just about adding detail, shading a bit more in depth, drawing hair and touching up small details.
And that's the final piece! I've still got a lot of practice to come and a lot more to learn but for my first attempt in a long while at a portrait, I'm proud! I hope you guys like it and any comments or feedback is more than welcomed!!!