Sketching Ian McKellen

Sketching Ian McKellen and when I'm sketching I look at the photo or the live subject and start anywhere where I feel I want to go first. Here

I started at the top of the head and worked downwards. I gauged the distance from the hairline down to the eyebrows and if you keep your hand moving all the time you can feel these distances.

Here I am making sure that the alignment of the eyes is relevantly correct and as you can see here I have started to put dark tones in the eyes.

I work all over the head not just concentrating on one part but keeping everything going at once. in this example I moved on quite a bit, sketching in form and wrinkles, putting in more darks and you can see I have moved all over the head trying to keep everything relative.

The hair was put in by following the form of it with my pencil strokes and very little shading has been put in only places where I think it needed it. The ear was dark against the white of his sideburns so I shaded this in.

Here he had is hand up to his chin so I sketched this in keeping it quite simple and not putting it in with great detail. (Fingernails etc)

Sketching is all about being free from preliminary lines that you may have put in first. When you are sketching you don't bother about preliminary lines you just get on with it concentrating on freedom of line and vitality

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