Where is the rest of the hair? The question ran across my mind last night after I had already begun work on this little guy's mouth. LOL All I really remember was sitting down, wondering how difficult the nose would be to shape, and finding myself correcting the line drawing on the lower lip while contemplating it. One line led to shading, and shading led to working my way up to his nose. Once it occurred to me that I really should have continued with the hair, I was too far gone. The work flow goes like that some times, and as we all know, the rest of the drawing will get done in its own time. :)
The mouth had lots of nice creases and dark shading compared to the rest of the features, but the lack of size made it take a little more time than I anticipated. But after all the layering and erasing, I am satisfied with the results.
In this updated photo, the features appear to have a lot of contrast, but that is a trick of the camera. The shading is true to the graphite that created it and very subtle in appearance. So for my preference, a softer lead will come out at a later time and give a little more push to the darkest areas.
His nose has such slight variations in the skin tone. Kind of crazy really, since there is a lot going on in that small area. The nostrils always have that defining outer edge and inner shadow, but the area surrounding them could almost make one insane with the lack of strong contrasts. I took a slight amount of artistic license to pull it together and was tempted to keep moving to the right. But, I decided to stop myself at that point. I really need to keep moving up or risk losing a place to rest my hand. ;)
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