This Is What Made My Portraits Finally Look Real

Have you ever spent hours on a portrait and it still doesn't look quite right? Today I'm going to show you how I create a realistic portrait using both graphite and charcoal, and why combining these two can completely change your results. Graphite is perfect for smaller details and smooth midtones, while charcoal helps you push those darkest values and create strong contrast. When you use them together the right way, your drawing starts to feel much more realistic. I'll walk you through my process and share the small things that make a huge difference. And if you want to follow along in real time, the full length version of this drawing is available inside my membership. Now let's get started. For the shading I want to use graphite for the face and charcoal for the hair because it's quite dark and I like how I can just easily layer. So I'm satisfied with combining charcoal and graphite together. I'm just going to start using the charcoal and also the pupil. The only thing is when you start with the charcoal like this and you're going to blend the graphite around it with the soft tissue, try to be careful that you don't smudge the charcoal, because the charcoal is easy to smudge. This is the thing I like about the charcoal pencil, you can get a dark value really easily. It looks creepy now, see these dark pupils just staring at you and then the rest of the eye is still white. So this is how I like to start a portrait and whenever you're hesitating or you feel nervous to start, just start. That's the hardest part. I try to just tell myself okay I'm going to sit down for a while, start somewhere and then we'll just see how it goes and how far I come and if it's time to stop, just take a break and continue another time. You don't have to finish it all at once, just focus on each small step one at a time, layer by layer, step by step, blend this with the blending stump for the charcoal. So you see that the iris, I'm going to blend it. It's quite light here, the lower part, but if it turns out too dark I can always just use the stick eraser. The lower part of the iris is lighter, the top part of the shadow. Remember why? Because the upper eyelid casts a shadow onto the eye, because the iris and the eyeball is inside of the eye, so the eyelids will need to cover the eye, the eyeball. I blended a bit over the eyeball whites, the 4B now. Why? Because first I want to go over the shadow lines and then for the lighter, like the mid-tone, I'm going to switch back to the 2B and then also go over this part where this corner should be dark, but I can always... So with the graphite layers you need to use light pressure. You can go over the graphite with the charcoal, as long as you're using light pressure. The shadow continues to the eye, see that? This shadow doesn't, like a line here, a shadow line. The first layer of graphite here over the forehead, here in between the hair, it's all shadow, so I think maybe even the 2B that I'm using now is too light, but you know, let's just see. So there's a kind of like a highlight here, so I'm going to skip and I'll shade this between the eyebrows and then in the pupil to the left, that's where I see this highlight start, so until there. Everywhere you see it's lighter, like the highlights, you can shade around that and then with the soft tissue I am going to blend over that area, because it isn't that bright. Shade this part here for the nose, here the sides, and then leaving the middle part just a bit lighter. Let's blend this first. So you see how you see all of the pencil lines? It looks more like a sketch now, which could be fine if you like a sketched look, but I like to smoothen it all, so that's when it's time for the soft tissue. Starting with the highlights here and then blending around and I added some charcoal here for the hair, so I notice it's getting a bit darker but that's okay, so I lost the highlight now. Take a clean part and continue to blend. Careful, be sure to go around the eyebrow, make sure you take a clean part every time, but you don't smudge the dark graphite on the lighter areas. So you see how the charcoal also got lighter on the eye? It's a bit more blended now, but it is lighter. So now with the 4B, I'm going to darken the shadows like here on the side, under the eyebrow here. Make sure you blend with the side of the pencil lead to get a smoother and more even result. So look at all of the shadows around the eyes, that's what I'm adding now. Let's use the kneaded eraser, just lighten this part. Now you see some eraser strokes, so with a clean tissue, blend this and what I want to do is use the blending stump for the shadows and then in some areas to blend further you can use this soft tissue. Why I'm using the blending stump now is because the shadows are a bit darker. The charcoal again to darken in the corner and it's quite thick here for the lashes. Let's see, and also the top part of the iris is darker. Going over the edge of the iris and then let's use the stump. Only blend the top part, otherwise the whole iris will get too dark. The top part here, I'm just going to use the 6B graphite pencil. You'll see a highlight and then shadow up here. Here's the waterline. Let's define this line a bit more, darken the shadow above the crease line and here can also be a bit darker. Now let's blend this with the smaller stump carefully because I also want to blend the inside here a bit. I don't really like how the edge of the eyes look a bit too thin for me and I don't want to use the charcoal pencil again because I need to be really precise. So I'm going to try using the black pencil, see if I can soften this edge around the iris. Okay, that works. Keep checking the shape of the iris. I noticed that I had this one too curved so I'm drawing it a bit more straight here. What I want to do is use the charcoal to darken the pupil area again and over the lash line. And then with the black colored pencil again, I want to go over the corners here which are a bit darker but because it's that tiny small, I want to be more precise. I'm going to start with the forebead and I want to go over the darkest areas starting with the nose ring here. You can see like it's in shadow. The nostrils are quite dark. If I compare it to the dark in the eyes, it's the same dark value and also the inside of the mouth here. Those are the dark values I see. So I might go over the nostrils with charcoal on the last layer before I blended everything. Let's see this shadow. We can continue it now. You see that it goes here to the nose ring with a curve. I just added shadow here to the left to the right. On the left it's just a bit darker and I think I'm going to smudge this now. Let's add a bit here. I'm just going to smudge over the whole. It's more difficult to try to blend around for the highlight. The 6B pencil now. I want to go over the nostrils before I lose them. Darken but using really light pressure. Just going over the sketch line. The nostrils can be a bit wider and the nose wings can be a bit darker. So you see how that now that you're adding the nose and you look at the drawing as a whole, the focus isn't only on the eyes but now also more the other parts of the drawing. So whenever you're stuck or you're not sure about an area it's best to move on to another part on the face. And before I blend this I want to add the highlight with the stick eraser. So in the middle and a bit more to the right. A bit above this shadow and then like these stripes texture. Now with the bigger blending stump I want to blend the shadow because I want to keep it dark. Also blend a bit around it so that you get a smoother transition from this shadow to the mid-tone on the nose here. The 6B under the nose wing here a bit and it curves. So if you go from the nose wings here under the nose wings that the cast shadow curves a bit more, a bit lower. Okay let's blend this and then I want to darken the nostrils so that we can compare. Actually the highlight is a bit more like this. So you have these harsh eraser lines. Just with a clean part of the tissue just carefully blend a bit so that you still have a highlight but it's just a bit more natural, a bit softer. You know with the 2B charcoal pencil. Let's go over the nostrils and you can also use the black for this. The black pencil. Let's see how dark. It's quite dark this shadow on below and then the nostril can be a bit thicker. And now that we have this really dark you can see that the shadow doesn't look that dark anymore. Now I want to blend this but there might be a lot of charcoal on this blending stump so I want to clean that up first a bit. I'm just wiping it off on the kneaded eraser and you can see that you can just clean the eraser by molding it really easily. This is the blending stump I use for charcoal but before I just get one charcoal mess first. Here I want to blend this. You can see how you can move that charcoal. With the charcoal on the stump I went over this nose wing shadow and then here as well and let's see now we can blend over the charcoal and then pull a bit of the charcoal here onto the cast shadow below the nose the tip of the nose. That can also be a bit darker. I'm going to use the 4B. You see now that the nostrils are darker this shadow on top on the tip of the nose just lost it or it was too light it didn't lose it. You see how the shadow can look fine but then once you add darker values next to it that shadow or that value doesn't look that dark anymore. It's all about comparing values to each other so keep on comparing values and checking values even though you thought that the shadow was dark enough. Let's move on to the lips now. I'm going to start with the 4B because it isn't all too light. So I'm looking at the upper lip it looks all just one value to me and then only the lower lip has all of the highlights. Using light pressure here it's quite light bringing that texture going around those highlights but we can also use the eraser later. Okay let's blend this so I didn't add graphite here because I'm just going to use the stump to blend that in here with the 2B pencil and you see a highlight above the lip so if we lose that again you can use the stick eraser. Also adding graphite here and then leaving this part where there's a highlight going around that and here I see all mid-tone and here I see more shadow but let's add a first layer of this shadow. Here I see an area on the chin where it's lighter so I'm just going to shade around that. Remember to use light pressure when you shade, consistent pressure so the same amount of pressure the whole time. I also like to turn my pencil every once in a while. Okay now I want to blend this layer so here careful you don't want to blend over the nose. Already added charcoal there see how it all looks flat now just one value. We need to darken the shadow here on the sides, the jaw, the chin. Values can really make a difference. Values are what will make your drawing 3D instead of flat because the paper is flat. With the 4B going over the darker areas and then I can also work on the mouth. This shadow is just a bit darker but then I also see a shadow here on the cheek. Actually I want to use the 6B with this shadow and here and then also just go over the jawline and the chin just this shadow part here below. Back to the 4B I'm going to shade this area usually like a shadow line here but not an outline. I'm going to blend this using a bit a lighter pressure because I want to add more light to the chin but not too dark here and looking at this shadow I see mid-tone and then highlight and here it all looks one value so I'm going to add a bit more near above the shadow and looking at the angle like this like until where this mid-tone can be. You can also add a bit darker value. Now the face is starting to look more and more 3D. Let's use the stump first for the shadows to keep them darker. The shadow is quite dark so I'm also blending over this with stump here. So you see now that we have this shadow darker this cast shadow can also be dark on the nose. Now with the tissue see how that really smoothens it all. You can have a bit of a patchy look if you don't have the transitions right. Going over this with the smooth tissue really helps make it all smooth and create those transitions. Take a clean part, blend over this area. Also a bit over the chin because it's not that bright. Now that I compare I see that I can darken this value even more with the 6B. First over the shadow and then I can also see that the top lip can be darker. So that's what I'm going to do next. But first let's darken the shadow. The shadow and then this can always go over the shadow if we need to later. With the 6B making sure the shadow is darker than the rest. I'm going to use the 8B to darken the middle line first. Make sure that I don't lose it when I darken the rest of the mouth. Don't use too hard pressure. Okay now let's use the 4B again. Add another layer to the top lip. I'm also going over these crease lines here for the lower lip. This shadow can be darker and this can be a bit higher. Looking at the distance here. Okay now I want to use the stick eraser. Make sure it's clean and then erase here with this highlight. And also a bit here. It's not that bright there but I can blend over it. And then some areas in the lip. This part isn't that bright so I'm blending over it. The shadow. The 6B to darken the shadow here. Let's blend this. I think the crease lines can also be a bit darker. But what I want to do now is use the charcoal pencil for that middle line. So you see that the lips look quite flat now because you don't have that depth. And that's what you will create now with this dark line. Darker values will bring more to the back. Look how you immediately by adding dark give depth to the lip. Because you're moving this the inside of the mouth to the back. Like to the inside of the mouth. Here where the lips touch can be a bit thicker. In here the corner is a bit bigger. Okay now we just have an outline. So what I want to do is blend this line but then up to the upper lip. And if it gets too light after the blending you can go over it again. Or you just use the black colored pencil or any other dark pencil that you use for the darkest lines. I want to add another layer with the charcoal. Because if I want to get this black with the black pencil I will need to use harder pressure. Then we'll be able to go over that with the charcoal. I'm using the charcoal one more layer. And with the black pencil because these crease lines aren't that dark but they are a bit darker. So before I blend I want to create these crease lines. And I'm using light pressure because it isn't that dark. Because with light pressure it's black. You don't get it that black. You just get a dark gray value. But I can be more precise with this. Okay let's blend this charcoal and maybe the top lip can be even a bit darker but I'm not sure yet. I want to finish more of the face before I do that. So for now I think it's fine. Use the new eraser and just go like this and that highlights under the eyes. You see the texture so it doesn't have to be that smooth. The shadow is important to make the eye look puffy like you see in the reference photo. Instead of flat. And I thought that in my drawing the eye still looked a Just darken the shadow here and use the blending stump to blend. And this really light pressure going over this shadow just a bit to make this eye also a bit more puffy. Some of these lower lashes. And let's blend this. Blend the shadow here here and this the in the inner corner just a bit more in the shadow. Try to look at every small detail. I just darkened in some areas and blend the lash line. I always blend over it to make them look softer. This puffy shadow under the eye. That looks a bit better. These shadows a bit darker. And I might go back to the eyes and I also still need to add the highlight in the eye. And here the pupil got a bit too small Now looking at this area. I have a harsh line here. So you see this shadow but then here it's needs to be more of a smoother transition. So I'm going to use the 4B. Add a bit more graphite here so I can blend this with each other. Something that was bothering me when I look at my drawing. And let's blend this. So you can easily just add graphite next to it to create more of a smooth transition that way. And if it was too dark then I could use the nude eraser. I think this is fine now. Again I will need to check once I have the neck and the hair. So you see this middle line. I want to add a bit shading above it to make the top lip look a bit rounder. Here I'm going to fill it in with the 2B. So just start with the first layer here where it's lighter. You see the shadow below the jawline is the darkest. That's this shadow. Fill this all in and fill the shadow in. But make sure that you don't use too hard pressure here at the edges where you stop so that you can blend that in nicely with the rest of the neck. Because this isn't like a dark object on this neck. This is a shadow. Cast shadow. So you want smooth transitions from the shadow to the mid-tone to the highlights. We need to blend this all but how that brings the head more to the front now and the neck more to the back. The head is sitting on top of the neck. But let's blend this. And I'm using the blending stump because I want to keep this dark. Now let's blend below and let's use the soft tissue for this area. You see now that I darkened the rest. The highlight looks good now. And before I thought it was too dark. There is less shadow just here below the jawline. I'm adding that cast shadow under the nose. It's just as dark as the shadow. So you see that like I already said before I know that I can darken that cast shadow again. So you see how I'm not sure. So if you're wondering how do I choose my pencils? How do I know when to move on to a darker one or when to choose a lighter one? I don't really know. I just start with the layer and you don't want it to turn out too dark of course. So I build up the layer. I don't start too dark on the shadow because I'm not sure yet. I end up going over it a few times usually and that's better than ending up too dark and need to correct or fix. So you see that how that shadow in the beginning it looked dark enough but then I moved on to the rest of the face and then on the lips and now I see that the shadow isn't dark enough. So there isn't a right or wrong which pencils to start with for the first layer. It is better to start too light end up going over it a few times with a few layers. That's the best way and use light layer, light pressure on each layer and yeah that's how you can just go step by step and build up the layers gradually and with every layer you put down make sure you use light pressure especially on the edges so that when I want to blend the shadow that it doesn't look like a yeah that there's an outline that I can blend it nicely. Going a bit lower here where it's also a bit shadow you see how I use really light pressure to go over the edges of this shadow line so that I can blend it nicely and while I'm using this pencil I'm going over the this cast shadow and I'm not going over the nostrils because I used charcoal there and I might want to add another layer of charcoal if I need to. Slowly gradually darken the shadow. Goes a bit here over the nose wing and then the shadow is a bit below that below the nose wing that's better. You see this cast shadow a bit really light going over this shadow just to make it blend a bit and I don't have a hard edge for that shadow and then here also really light pressure on the edge of the shadow. Okay that looks better now let's blend this what we just added. I'm not going over the nostrils just blending over the edge of this shadow that I added here over the nose wing and there's some graphite here on the sides of the tip of the nose like the tip of the nose is is round it's a ball so usually you have like here. I'm just shading a bit with the graphite I have on the stump. Let's blend this. I'm going to use a smaller stump because I don't want it too far and actually here on the nose wing blend it too high. Now I erased too low so back with just a thin layer and then this okay I think the nose looks better and round. Let's continue with the neck. I'm going to blend this. You see how that cast shadow under the nose really makes the nose look like it's on top of the face because of that cast shadow below it. Okay so I'm blending this shadow I think it's dark enough now with the 6B. You see the neck line here I lost that a bit and with the black I want to clear the shirt again make it really darker than this part neck and shirt. Okay it's fine for now but you can always come back and check. So what I'm going to do now is focus on the darkest areas I see in the hair and then you see those highlight areas I'm going to go around those and then with the blending stump you can blend that so that it's not that bright but if you lose too much of the highlights you can also use the eraser for that. So that's how I'm going to draw the hair focus on the direction I see. So the first layer can be messy and try to go around the highlights but it isn't really a big deal if you skipped a few because again you can use the eraser for that. So you see how I'm going around those lighter parts in the hair and then paying attention to the direction here so it goes down here it's all quite dark here on this side it's quite dark going apart going over the ear. I'm going to sharpen the pencil look how sharp just one second in the electric sharpener. I'm really satisfied with this sharpener. You see all the white areas that's the highlights in the hair but now you really see a dark contrast from black to white so once we blend it will look better. The first layers can always look a bit ugly but you need to go through that stage. I'm going to blend this now first and again if you're if the highlights turn out too light you can just bring them back or maybe if I don't like how I have this flow of the hair maybe I need to add that back and I can use the eraser for that as well. So you see how the first layer you just need to start somewhere and then continue from there. I think I'm going to work on this part of the hair first before I continue to this side. So even just one layer with the charcoal already looks quite good but I don't really have that flow yet of the hair. Use the eraser stick eraser and create those like these longer hairs. You can see this one here and that really helps the flow of the hair and then with an extra piece of paper you can clean off with the eraser and here you should be able to erase this quite easily. I also have an electric eraser but I think I prefer this one so if this erase is good enough I just use the stick eraser but if I need to erase more details or maybe the layer is thicker it's more difficult to erase with the stick eraser that's where an electric eraser could be really handy. Let's see a few more here quite messy it's lighter like a highlight shining on this area where it's dark like those shadows in between. I want to add another layer and I'm drawing a bit around the highlights darken the parts in between and now let's blend this. So I'm carefully going over the highlights because they weren't as bright but you still see them see that. I'm going to use the charcoal that's on the stump and a bit here where it's darker the inside of the ear. When I blend I still follow the direction of the hair. Let's work on this side now. So two layers of charcoal and one time erasing with highlights and there you have it. So again I'm going to follow the direction of the hair I think I'm not going to go over these hairs here don't want to get it too messy and here where it's just a bit darker and thicker areas of hair but those thinner hairs not. I'm thinking about the hair like I see shapes and strokes. Let's blend this layer so now you have your hair almost finished and if you like look at your drawing from a further distance you can see you can really focus on the values on the face now and on the neck if you have that correct. So I'm carefully adding just using the charcoal that's on the stump to blend this. Now you can also see this part of the face looks way too light and then here the shadow on the here below the eyebrow actually the eyebrow even looks too light now. See that? And in the beginning it already looked finished. I'm blending this shadow carefully and then here between the eyes maybe blending this part here. So I'm checking like the forehead looking in between the hairs and seeing what kind of value the forehead has and now I see compared to the dark hair that I added it looked too light so I'm just using the charcoal that's on the stump to blend use the eraser and focus on those longer hair strokes you see. I actually need to add some more some more darks and then here over the oh actually I can darken the eyebrows a bit. Now continue with the stick eraser here and I think this is enough. Okay now let's add another layer next to the highlights and then blend where it's darker. Okay let's blend this. After working on the hair I think I'm going to take a short break because it's I think it's important to take breaks because you can lose your focus. If you come back with fresh eyes you can already see something that you might not notice now. So that really helps me to take enough breaks in between. I don't always say it when I take a break but usually I don't even draw longer than an hour or maximum one hour and a half. So now it's time to focus on smaller details. What I did is take a picture of my drawing put it next to the reference photo on the computer and then go back and forth with my eyes see if I notice anything see if I want to change something or add something. I'm not that satisfied with the eyes so it looks like they're a bit wider and also it looks curved in my drawing. Here it's a bit more straight here. This is the 2B medium charcoal pencil so I want to darken this part and also the iris is just a bit darker especially at the top. I just want to fix that a bit and then I want to add some flyaway hairs here and I think I'm also going to darken this shadow here for the nose. So just some things I noticed when I was looking at the drawing that I want to correct. So you can check your drawing you can take a picture see if there's anything you want to add or correct. Let's use the acrylic marker for that small let's see on the pupil just on the right side at the top I think I need to shake it because I just cleaned off the tip on another piece of paper and maybe on the charcoal so the tip got dirty on the charcoal that's what I just noticed that happens you can clean it off on another piece of paper and now we have that bright white highlight in the eye and I want to blend carefully the upper eyelid just a bit I want to keep it dark enough but I just noticed I didn't blend over that before and now with the 6B I want to darken this shadow here on the nose it's a lot darker than on the right side so I think I have it okay on the right side I just want to darken it some more here like that and then blend this with the blending stump let's add some flyaways don't have to make them too perfect just like some messy here so that it looks a bit more natural that it flows some more you can also use the black here in between the like where the highlights are with them flow a bit more see if that makes a difference so here I can see some messy hair see how that really makes a difference you have to be perfectly the same as something like that here if they turn out too dark you can use the kneaded eraser lighten them move them a bit more to the back and I think it's fine now because the hair is already dark you can see that now that the charcoal is really dark comparison to the black pencil the black pencil is great for those flyaway hairs because they are a bit lighter in this area let's see so it goes over the eyebrow here the hair stops and then here it goes over the eyebrow here see some hair here this goes over the eyebrow so you see how those flyaway hairs already make yeah a big difference make the hair look more natural now here over the ear a bit okay now maybe add another layer to the charcoal some areas where it's really dark or shadow so once you add the final details and everything and checked again you can take another picture that really helps for me to have a fresh look at my drawing instead of looking at it how I'm doing now taking a picture really helps for me so maybe that's a tip for you that could also help you I'm just focusing on the hair where do I really see that it's dark in some areas I want to blend a bit other areas it's going to leave them darker because I noticed that if I blend over it it gets a bit lighter and with the black colored pencil I think I want to go over this to get the shape of the eye because it looks like he's also squinting his eyes a bit you want to get that right see the nose just checking all the values like the value on the forehead and also maybe we can use the stick eraser and then you see those highlights near the inner corner you also see some highlights here below the eye here in between those eyelashes here on this side as well and then you focus on the highlights you see here below the eye a bit textured so you can create that with the smaller tip of the stick eraser now the nose you already it's okay maybe here and then here I see some bright highlights also a bit textured sort of like these dots check this highlight this is fine and it's on the lips or the lower lip only actually the upper lip doesn't have highlight this here it can be a bit more blended I'm just using the graphite that's on the stump like a black almost looks like either part of the lip and the shadow looks too far apart and he's adding like a line there make sure that it looks like the lip and the lip is like asymmetrical you see these corners it looks a bit funny but it also defines the look of him so if you draw it like two corners the same yeah you can the mouth could look maybe better in your eyes but it won't look the same as the person in the reference photo you want to draw the same and achieve the same likeness so that's also something I think is difficult that's why I like to say draw exactly what and not what you think you see you know that lips need to have the corners on the same line or whatever maybe someone is like smiling and pulls the corner of one side a bit higher so that all can make a difference or if you think both eyes need to have the same size of course but maybe the person is squinting one eye or maybe if the person is laughing one eye becomes a bit smaller everything can change how something looks so again try to draw exactly what you need in the reference photo that's what we're using the reference photo for as a guide and with the black pencil I see this line here on the lip it looks too dark in my drawing but there's also a shadow here which is something I just noticed and after this I think it's finished because I noticed that I'm just yeah looking at every small detail but I don't really think I can change anything this line stands out too much blending it a bit then with the stump so everything I add I always use the stump to blend always want to yeah blend to make it look softer and then just one thing I noticed here on the hair I see like a highlight shining on that part of the hair I'm just going to erase that just to make it look the same like that and then you can blend yeah the edges a bit if it looks too harsh if those eraser lines look too harsh for example and yeah I think this is it with the black pencil going over this I keep saying I think this is it and then I see something new so you can also come back to your drawing the next day or take a short break okay now I'm calling this drawing finished so I have tape below the drawing to hold it in place but yeah I'm finished with this drawing I hope you're satisfied with your drawing as well I really like the dark contrast of his hair and in the reference photo that the background is light gray I'm keeping mine white because I really like that contrast but you can add a light gray background if you like so remember the three important things when creating a realistic portrait is the first important one is the sketch you want the proportions to be accurate the second one are all of the values the mid-tones the highlights and the shadows that will make your yeah your drawing pop that will make the face look round that will make the nose look round that will make the mouth look round and look like it's 3d and then at last the details like the highlight in the iris or like the crease line on the lips any small detail can matter but I always say the details are at last because the sketch and the proportions are the most important and the values come after that that's what's going to make your drawing look realistic not the details so I see some not focusing on the values but already moving on to the details like they see some details on the nose or maybe on the mouth but they don't have the values correct yet also try to focus on comparing shadows so look at the shadow on the side of the face look at the shadow on the neck compare that value in the reference photo or look at the dark value on the hair where do you see that dark value in the reference photo I also see that dark value on the eyebrows on the top part of the iris on the shadow here on the ear and some parts of the shirt that's where you want to make those shadows as dark as the hair and if you still have a hard time comparing values to use your value scale compare it to the reference photo and also to your drawing and by doing that you will get better and better at seeing values and comparing values and that's it for today I hope this gave you a better idea of how much of a difference it can make to combine graphite and charcoal in one drawing and how those small changes can really improve your results if you want to see the full process in real time and draw along with me step by step you can find the full length version inside my membership if you enjoyed this video don't forget to like and subscribe for more drawing tips and tutorials thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one