Your goal in this heavily illustrated project is to gain an understanding of how various aspects of contrast and key can enhance composition. The process includes bringing an artwork from its original concept, through compositional planning, photography, sketching accurate proportions, shading a thumbnail sketch, and rendering a contour drawing, to its finale as a profile portrait in graphite of a young man.
In this tutorial, you'll be shown how to use advanced graphite drawing techniques to create a profile portrait of a young man. The lesson contains four sections: planning composition, planning shading, drawing a detailed outline, and adding shading.