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I went down to Iowa for four days, just got back today...And personally, I am SICK of drawing Audrey Hepburn now. (Just check how many times I have drawn her recently...! ) But all I had for reference was her biography with a bunch of great pictures, so...Well, I had to draw something.

I love the Ascot scene in My Fair Lady. The clothing was just wonderful. I know that this dress isn't the one she wore there, but it just reminded me so much of it. But I love her expression. It's like a polite, pleasant surprise kinda thing

I tried to do three different types of shading: For the skin and scarf thing, just simple building up tones with the pencil, then cross-hatching on the clothes, and smudging with a tissue paper for the background. But, o f course it's in my sketchbook, so the other pages were rubbing against it, thus smudging all the effort I put into the cross-hatching :/ Oh well.

This was all drawn with a regular mechanical pencil, because I was an idiot and forgot to bring any good drawing materials. And yes, those white blobs in her hat are supposed to be shaded. They're roses; I just didn't feel like shading them in.

Also, drawn on a Strathmore sketch pad, if you're wondering

Just by the way, I'm not wanting to draw things that look like photos anymore. I suppose that's just lost its appeal to me. I've always tried to make my drawings look lie they're photos (my goal had always been to get into an argument on whether I really did draw something, lol!) but I just don't see the point anymore. Of course, I was never that good, so I don't have to worry about that anyway But don't get me wrong; photorealistic drawings are amazing! The technical skill that's required to make something like that...But, I just like drawings to look like drawings, y'know?

Drawings that are so perfect that they're photorealistic are just...they almost feel soulless, artificial. Sketches breathe, they speak...so yeah.

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I went down to Iowa for four days, just got back today...And personally, I am SICK of drawing Audrey Hepburn now. (Just check how many times I have drawn her recently...! ) But all I had for reference was her biography with a bunch of great pictures, so...Well, I had to draw something.

I love the Ascot scene in My Fair Lady. The clothing was just wonderful. I know that this dress isn't the one she wore there, but it just reminded me so much of it. But I love her expression. It's like a polite, pleasant surprise kinda thing

I tried to do three different types of shading: For the skin and scarf thing, just simple building up tones with the pencil, then cross-hatching on the clothes, and smudging with a tissue paper for the background. But, o f course it's in my sketchbook, so the other pages were rubbing against it, thus smudging all the effort I put into the cross-hatching :/ Oh well.

This was all drawn with a regular mechanical pencil, because I was an idiot and forgot to bring any good drawing materials. And yes, those white blobs in her hat are supposed to be shaded. They're roses; I just didn't feel like shading them in.

Also, drawn on a Strathmore sketch pad, if you're wondering

Just by the way, I'm not wanting to draw things that look like photos anymore. I suppose that's just lost its appeal to me. I've always tried to make my drawings look lie they're photos (my goal had always been to get into an argument on whether I really did draw something, lol!) but I just don't see the point anymore. Of course, I was never that good, so I don't have to worry about that anyway But don't get me wrong; photorealistic drawings are amazing! The technical skill that's required to make something like that...But, I just like drawings to look like drawings, y'know?

Drawings that are so perfect that they're photorealistic are just...they almost feel soulless, artificial. Sketches breathe, they speak...so yeah.