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Apple Pencil Drawing Portrait with Pencil on iPad Pro

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Channel: Stayf Draws · 2018 · Howto & Style

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Apple Pencil Drawing Portrait with Pencil on iPad Pro

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Drawing a portrait with a pencil
This is one of my first portraits I am drawing on the iPad in Procreate. I always dread drawing portraits. Especially in a realistic style. That is one of the hardest things to draw. Because everyone knows what a face looks like and when something is off, you will see it right away.

If you think you can’t do something, you probably can. The only way to find out is to just do it.
Overcome your fear and just try. What is the worst thing that can happen? That you fail?

Failure is the best way to learn. If you just keep doing things you always have done before you won’t improve. You will maintain your talent, but you will keep the same skills.

Do you ever let fear get in the way to do something? Please let me know in the comments.

So I just started making this portrait. 

I always have been a big fan of the drawings and studies of Michelangelo. Most of them are done in red pencil and have a very organic feel to them. For this portrait I wanted to achieve the same effect. Another artist that I admire is the Italian painter Massimo Rao he also paints in a classical style and he also made some pastel painting portraits.

For reference I am using a screen cap of an interview with the actor Timothée Chalamet.  I loved the lighting of the set and made a screen grab from it. 

In drawing this portrait I am more focused on the tonal feel and the shadows that fall on the face.
I am using the 6B pencil in Procreate. To make it more feel like drawing on paper I added a paper structure on the bottom layer. 

The great thing about drawing with the Apple Pencil is that you can also draw with the tilted side. That creates a more subtle pencil where you can gradually build up your shades. Until now I have never used screen protectors before. But I am now testing out a screen protector that has some structure too it. When drawing on paper with a pencil you will always have some resistance when you press harder. The surface of the iPad is very smooth and so is the Apple Pencil. When you draw on the iPad it feels like your skating. I got used to it. Until I got this screen protector by PaperLike to test out. 
For the first time it feels like drawing with a pencil on paper. It even sounds like it. Next week I will do a full review about PaperLike so stay tuned. 


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The portrait turned out OK. I will make a better one next time.

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