portrait sketches

Backgrounds are useful to guide and enhance your vision of how you want to represent your subjects. Backgrounds can soften the presentation of your subject or make the presentation more energetic or dramatic. However, whatever you do by way of backgrounds, always make sure that the background works with the subject and not against it. Also, do not forget that the subject is the reason you started the drawing in the first place. So, do not get caught up in your background to the point where it starts outshining your subject and diverts the attention of the viewer from your subject. So, usually, the background will be drawn with less detail and in a manner subordinate to the subject.

Drawing hair is not all that difficult but it does take quite a bit of time to make the result to look real and natural. In fact, it usually takes two to three times longer to do the hair than it does to do the rest of the portrait. So, do not get frustrated and know that you will have to spend the time.