The neck area after blending out and smoothing some of the tones using a kneadable eraser.
Use the eraser to dot pick the roughly laid in tone, smoothing it out and fading the darker spots in it.
You may also find that you need to use a 2H pencil very lightly to fill in extremely pale patches.
I don’t use anything harder than HB because I find it trains me not to rely on the drawing tools too much.
The stumpy square-headed brush is also a very useful tool at this stage, particularly for lightly adding subtle tone and blending in the paler areas.
The finished realistic head portrait, drawn in pencil from a photo. Final drawing size (5½in x 6in).
You will need to decide when you are finished with smoothing, blending, and adjusting shapes and tones in your drawing.
Remember that there will always be small errors or things you will want to change when you look at the drawing in the future. Don’t spend forever on one drawing – move on to a new picture. As always, practice makes perfect.
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