My first attempt at Sketching
October 22, 2005 12:25 am
I always wanted to try my hand at sketching and finally allowed myself to embarass my self 
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I tried sketching Laetitia Casta the supermodel. Why her? well she took me over the edge. Yesterday I was shuting down my system and my wallpaper changed to this photo(that I tried to sketch). I use Webshots as my wallpaper manager and it changes the wallpaper every 15 min. I dont know why but I just wanted to sketch her. I took courage a few hours ago and decided to put pencil to paper and voila…
I started at the eyes and trust me, you will never admire beauty untill you look at it in the eyes. The magic of perfection can be discovered by only sketching it. I made a mistake doing the hair and after that it just went downhill. Her face has come out much broader than I wanted but Im happy considering it was my first attempt.
This sketch took me about 45 mins to finish. I had to improvise and use the only blunt pencil in the house. I did not find the eraser untill I was done with the eyes, nose and the hair so not much mistakes as u can see. The hair was the eaziest part and nose probably the toughest. I looked and relooked at the eyes and the lips to get it as perfect as I could but it still turned out like that .
Well, heres to many more sketches… seriously hope I get better at it
4 Responses to “My first attempt at Sketching”
Nicely dont bro.. Real nice
You should practice more often. Coincidentally, whenever I have a pencil in my hand, I get an urge to sketch as well. But I have never tried my had at it
Try it sometime dude. Its amazing what you might be able to do u just got to try :razz:
Here is the expert’s comment… ahem ahem….
well for your 1st sketch, man u did a good job, if it was a 2B pencil that u were using the same strokes wd have given even beautiful outcome. you have to keep doin this. U wil surely get a hang of it. I also always start with the EYES! i sketched costa jus for her eyes! Wil blog it sometime so that u can have a peek. Her eyes r jus beautiful. N i totally agree with u, The fine details of the eyes r known only when u pick up a pencil n sketch it out! Great goin haas! i stil like your 1st sketch better . Come out really well.
Hey thanks, not sure which pencil i used though. Need to get up to date wrt sketching instruments ect i guess
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