John Wayne sketch

Getting the correct alignment of the eyes right is important in structuring the face, its no good having one eye up and the other one slightly down to where it should be.

Notice the different line widths, some lines are thick, some thinner, some lines are light some dark, this is automatic with the way I draw and you should aim for this variety of line if you want life and vitality in your sketching.

Darker shading around the eyes and hair goes in and the hair is done by following the form of it, if hair looks like it is flowing from right to left you use your pencil strokes from right to left, if the hair is straight down you draw strokes straight down. It is a good idea to follow the form of the face and hair.

The left side of the face goes in like his ear and hair, shading is just suggested here and if the shading was drawn in fully the sketch would lose a lot of its vitality so always keep shading to a minimum when sketching.

The finished sketch and I hope you can see the quality of the sketch here which apart from Mr Wayne himself the marks I have put down gives him life and vitality and the shading helps to give a feeling of light falling on is face.
 

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