✏️ The drawing of Tomb Raider Lara Croft: Part 3

Описание: In this part, I had started shading in some details of Lara's hair, skin, shadows, gun, clothing and backpack. It is always a relief once the facial features are locked in, because making a mess of this means that the focal point of the entire drawing is ruined 😆 I used a B6 to lock in the outlines and initial shading, then a softer, B12 pencil to add the darkest highlights and blending in softly.

You can blend a softer, darker gradient over a harder, lighter pencil shade, but it isn't easy doing it the other way round. It is possible to shade and overlap tones to create a subtle, seemless gradient, but I am lazy and utilise blending stumps to do the hard work for me 😂 If I was going for photo-realism, then I would used the former technique.

Anyway, I hope you like this drawing so far, and please let me know if you are also excited for the launch of Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis (a complete remake of the 1996 adventure). The trailers look amazing! 😍

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✅ See the layout and process from start to finish
✅ Part 3 of this time-lapse video of this drawing
✅ Materials listed below
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Materials:
✏️ Winsor & Newton 220g/m2 100lb medium grain paper (A2 cut into A3 section)
✏️ Faber Castell: 11 Pit Graphite Matt Pencils to create a non-reflective, bold graphite surface
✏️ Tombow MONO Zero mechanical eraser - perfect for creating finer details in graphite
✏️ Derwent Soft Art Eraser - for rubbing out larger sections without damaging the paper
✏️ Blending stumps - helps builds a gradient between several different tones, as well as creating a base layer to build on with graphite or invert with erasing
✏️ A1 Windsor & Newton Foldable Art Board - provides ample space for larger art projects with room to pin references to
✏️ Masking tape - to fix the paper onto my art board
✏️ 50cm plastic ruler - used to create 1cm x 1cm square grid to enable accurate perspectives
✏️ Mechanical pencil sharpener Please like, share and subscribe if you enjoy this content and this will encourage me to make more videos :)

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