Tutorial on Creating Portrait With The Perfection!

Drawing a face, by itself, is not an easy task; let alone a portrait that is synonymous with not just the way a person looks, but, in fact, is a representation of the characteristics and traits of the individual's personality. Now, that's no easy mission to engage; yet, Mohan Sonawane did take that it was worth a shot, and came up with this evocative portrait of actor Nawazuddin Siddique. He takes us through the moves it took him to reach the achieved execution.

Step 1: Primary Concept

To start off with, the background was put into effect by the use of the given base colour – one similar to skin colour. Further, basic line anatomy was put into application, also keeping in mind the face structure and proportion, at the same time. This was all done in the Rapid style of sketching, quickly just going step after step, not paying much attention to detail at that stage or phase of the illustration/portrait.