Portrait Drawing Quality Tips
Getting the best quality pencil portrait drawing!While alot of the responsibility for producing a high quality, detailed portrait drawing rests on myself, the artist you can do alot as the customer to ensure the best portrait possible. In this article I will cover a few tips that help you get the best portrait drawing possible. The better the photo the better the portrait drawingHaving a good quality photo is of A1 importance when creating a professional portrait drawing. The more detail that is provided, the less guesswork that has to be done when your portrait is created! The best size would be a 1:1 ratio. For example, if you are commissioning an 8x10" portrait drawing, it is recommended that you provide a photo that could be printed at 8x10" size. This is of course in a perfect world, alot of times a photo of this quality cannot be provided and I do the best that I can to fill in details. This is where my personal experience comes in and makes up the difference. Resources Using professional portrait materialsI believe in using the best quality materials to produce my pencil portrait drawings. While it is important to use Acid Free paper when drawing portraits there are many grades of this paper available. I use only heavy weight sheets so your portrait is durable and will last for years to come. I also use premium Prismacolor artists pencils to ensure even tone and line characteristics when I am drawing. Cheaper pencils have hard pieces of foreign material in the lead that leaves tiny scratches in the paper, resulting in a poor quality. Resources not outsourcing portrait drawings to china!Now at first this sounds ridiculous, outsourcing a portrait to China? Well it happens, quite a bit in fact. A big red flag is when you see prices that just seem too low to believe, or no mention of the artist anywhere on the site. When portrait drawings are outsourced you not only get a second rate product, you are getting poorer quality materials which are crucial to the longevity of your portrait! With pencilportraitdrawing.com you are communicating directly with the artist drawing your portrait. Resources
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