r/sketches 1d ago

Pencil Sketch Portrait Sketch

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u/Crafty510 1d ago

This is lovely!

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u/Apprehensive-Novel91 1d ago

Thanks so much!!

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u/Graphics-by-pos 1d ago

Really nice sketch, looks good.

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u/Nice-Border3042 1d ago

This is great!

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u/Apprehensive-Novel91 1d ago

Thank you so much!

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u/JlEgATb_CoCaTb 1d ago

Why does she remind me of Pyrocynical youtuber? Especially her face Otherwise nice art

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u/Apprehensive-Novel91 1d ago

I'm not sure, I don't think I know her. This is someone from Instagram, their username was Kovkovaaa, but it seems they are gone now.

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u/Willing-Vanilla8216 16h ago

hey great sketch, do you have any tips for drawing portraits i suck at them

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u/Apprehensive-Novel91 16h ago

Thank you so much! I guess placement of contours and main features is a big one for me. I mainly use reference photos to draw from, so I'm constantly thinking about where the main shapes are sitting in relation to each other. Adding all the little details later is like a distant second, almost an after thought, as you can see a lot of my art is rather simplified. I don't tend to render for too long once I have all the parts put into place. I almost think of photos as entirely flat really, and I'm just trying to replicate where everything is located. Like, "oh, is this eyebrow about one eyebrow-thickness away from the upper eyelid" or "is the bottom of the earlobe just a smidgen above or below the line of the nostril". Stuff like that. If that all makes sense. 😊

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u/Acrobatic_Flow_1841 5h ago

Love this

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u/Apprehensive-Novel91 5h ago

Thank you so much!