Chani’s Portrait – Work in Progress II

Chani’s portrait is coming along; I anticipate finishing it up this weekend. Here I have done most of the shading on Chani’s and her son’s face, as well as her son’s jacket. The shading actually involves three layers. One with a hard pencil to map out the values, a second with a softer pencil to get the mid-tones of the skin, and a third in an even softer pencil to get the shadows. It’s this gradation from light to dark that creates the illusion of three dimensions.