How To Draw Kendrick Lamar:Portrait Tutrial #10

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Welcome back to another portrait tutorial!

If your looking to hone your artistic ability, check out how a fellow artist works his pieces or even just appreciate looking at the process of art, you are in THE RIGHT PLACE!

Todays Subject: Kendrick Lamar

"I got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DNA
I got hustle though, ambition, flow, inside my DNA"

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Just a little over 1 month since I joined this community and already close to 1000 followers!
Thank you all so much for making this such a fun experience for me.
The ambition and motivation it has given me to create is priceless.


Map out the size you want the head to be on your page with an initial circle, then place the vertical center line to keep your eyes/nose/mouth symmetrical and even on both sides, as well a line going horizontally to keep your eyes level.

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Draw in your eyes leaving the length of one eye in between the two.

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Add in the nose. To get distance correct look at the size of the shape the gap makes in your reference image and try your best to recreate it.

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Now for the mouth leaving enough space in between mouth and nose for his mustache.

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Then the Goatee

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Now add in the shape the hoodie makes around the face taking in to consideration the shadow it leaves on the left side.

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We now add in some of the details of the hoodie Notice the general shapes the hoodies shadows create and start creating their outlines

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Do the same for the shadows of the face.

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Start to add in your shading to the darkest areas first so we can gradually build up to the lightest points. This help to have the ability to add as much details as possible with in the gradient.

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Cross hatch your lines in the opposite direction and smooth out.

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The next few steps will the most tedious part. Just keep on increasing that B shade going darker and darker.

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Start adding line weight to the top of your eyes. Don't do the same to the bottom as the lines there are much lighter in reference image.

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Using a darker pencil about a 3B start by adding little circles in for the hairline.

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Then make your little ticks for the goatee mustache and eyebrow area.

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Add the rest of the secondary level shading to the face.

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Hone in your contrast by continuing to darken the areas you have already distinguished for final product!

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Great breakdown into your process. You Sir are very talented and I am in awe.

Thanks for checking it out man! I am honored to have your support.

took the words right out of my mouth so I upvoted you.

why, thank you good Sir

I wonder where did he learn that skill ^^ he's so amazing! I want to be a good artist just like you @barrysamways. It was my first love before I married IT (information technology) :)
Another great art!
Hope you can visit my latest post too https://steemit.com/steemit/@tiffanyrej/can-comments-be-better-than-blog-post-see-the-results-2-days-commenting-vs-posting-blog
Damn, I'm really envy of your talent ^___________^

:) I will most certainly pop by and follow you as well. any one can learn at any point in their life I believe if they truly want to.. you know Van Gogh didn't even start painting until he was 27!

I like the way you explain your process, it helps to understand how to approach and start the drawing (not just this one but any kind of drawing) and what to pay attention to. Thanks :)

Oh my god this looks surreal!!!😍👌🏻😘 can you draw me now🙊🙈😏

post the picture you want done in the comments make sure its HD for most detail possible. I will see if I can get around to it :)

NO WAY OH MY GOD I did not think you were going to do it for real wow I'm gonna cry😭😭😭😍 ok I will get one and keep you posted wow thanks so much itd be my dream come true no joke💗☺️

lol it would be apart of my Drawing Steemians series. I have one or two I'm gonna do first but I will almost certainly be able to soon

You have some serious skill man, this is exactly the kind of thing we need on Steemit!

sincere thanks :) I hope more people like you stumble across these posts

Thank you for making Steemit a better place, Just Resteemed it to my 1000+ followers so hopefully it helps a bit.

no way! man I truly appreciate that. send me any ideas of new subjects you want to see done! you get top priority pick :)

I would love to see your take on Gong Li

thanks my friend :)

show must go on

Upvoted. Can you sketch me .. lol just kidding. . keep up the goo work

I just may :) your a beautiful subject

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