drawing the toque on the QNA of drawing portraits

[Karrie]

Good morning Nolan, Im working on the dark skin gentlemam in the QNA o0f learning how to draw portraits. How did you do the toque

[nolan]

Hi Karrie 


What I did there was to lay down a bit of a tonal value over the entire area, just enough so that I could erase into it so don't press hard when you do.


I then followed the pattern on the beanie and erased it using a Tombow pen shaped eraser. (Little upside down V's)


I then used a 6B pencil the darken the areas between the erased lines. This gave a flat hat.


To make it look like it rounded I used my cloth and graphite dust to run a shading over everything left to right a little distance off the bottom of the beanie and one on the edge fading upwards.


I hope that helps.