Ok, so after my drawing of ‘Brian Hazzard’ (my Brother in Law) – I decided to research in to this Shading of skin tones.
I got myself some new art tools, got some blending stumps and tortillions (after failure at making my own)
If any of you are wondering ‘what is a tortillion and blending stump!’ well I was wondering the same. On deviant art I kept seeing fellow artists saying “used tortillion” and this left me scratching my head so I used trusty google and found out.
A tortillion is a tightly roled pieces of paper, and you rub it against your pencil marks to smudge it, this is how they get their flesh tones! WOW how come with years in college no teacher showed me this?
I did the below drawing using a home made tortillion, it was not a geat one lol – so after this drawing I purchased some decent one.
This is Seychelle Gabriel, an actress from the movie ‘Last Air Bender’ – decided to draw someone famous as I will not draw family again un till my skills have improved!
