Portrait Pencil Drawings with Love

When starting a drawing, the first issue is: how am I going to trace my drawing correctly, easy and fast? Everybody has different methods for doing this: transfer paper, grid from photo/print reference, lightbox, real life trace, Photoshop grid, and so on.
Even in the ancient times, artists had their own methods. Artists such as Van Gogh and Da Vinci used the grid, but we attribute the grid to Albrecht Dürer. His magnificent drawings show such realism and the grid was part of that success.(ref)

Hi everyone!
I just opened a little contest on The Portrait Group from Flick .
The members of this group have to post a photo with their lover, between 15 – 22 January.
On 23 – 24 January I’ll make a poll were the members will vote the most beautiful photo. The winning photo will be transformed intro a free nice drawing portrait.

If you would like to take part of this contest too, just become a member of this group and post a photo of your lover (;
Good luck everyone!!

Olaaa!
Because the Valentine is getting closer and closer, and also the International Women’s Day, I thought that it would be nice to make a love edition of my blog. That’s why the commission prices are still low. So, it’s a good opportunity for presents (; Another surprise coming soon!

I also made a free wallpaper for you. Choose your monitor resolution and download (:

Lots of love to all of you!!

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