Hello to all art lovers!!! And one of those who loves fantasy pencil drawings. ^_^ ![# Portada.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/inu-jim/245ciwgYPC1Go9TVUHNXGTGw9AhhzfgLZWuhrFfMJLmYAS1wiqRh59m7VUfN6L3nTp6t8.jpg) You could say that these days, I'm doing all the house cleaning tasks that I haven't done in the last 3 months, so I think that next week is when I can really rest to resume my ideas and creative things, like drawing my OCs for my drawing guides or tweaking some ideas to see if I'll finally publish a webcomic next year, and really improve my skills in sculpting in plasticine or other materials. Since I am already on vacation, for obvious reasons I no longer have access to my classroom, which means that this is the last drawing that I will put on my wall and publish in this year 2022, I will continue making more drawings of these and I only need 3 to finish The Lord of the Rings theme and continue with another one closer to comics, but that will already be publications for 2023 ^_^ ![Separadores para Web-01.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/inu-jim/Eo8RPwhjJeFjpGvhpCmB2bssTL5mERzwiBjHgZxYb6enm2Q6X6YMdsWL2m1GAsa4Zvg.png) # Starting an epic portrait

As mentioned I continue with the drawings of "The Lord of the Rings" based on the sketches of the wonderful artist "Stjepan Sejic" take a look at his gallery where I got the reference for this drawing

https://www.deviantart.com/nebezial/gallery In the drawing of this occasion is a portrait of a man with a beard. ![IMG_20221027_104640.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/inu-jim/23u6Bn8srm8EmaBrEBwT3Zs9kG9VBFvscrsJBiqqqRoXkqQkspfcpEEyy228vBNbpNmi2.jpg)

In this drawing it is a frontal portrait, with the head slightly raised, so when I made the sketch with very simple lines giving a lot of space to the neck and representing the nose with a triangle to define the area of the nostrils, then I define more the sketch, showing more of the facial features, the shape of the hair and the folds of fabric, with this ready I begin to fill in starting with the right eye and surroundings.

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For the skin I used the 3H pencil a lot, with light tones applied with the 2B, I used this pencil a lot for everything that is hair, mustache, beard and eyes, first I covered the right side of the face with tones, which is the most illuminated, the right side is in shadow so for the skin I used the HB pencil with a lot of 2B and with that same pencil I applied the tones that I could to complete all the hair and beard.

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To mark the shadows I started to use the 3B pencil, and in this way I managed to capture depth to the entire head, then I begin to fill in the neck using the combination of 3H and HB pencils, and gently applying the 2B pencil I begin the light areas of the fabric folds.

![IMG_20221107_125009.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/inu-jim/23wX5rZBTCEyDkQrh748vrV2pkfpAsDsKQp7AxQCYqrVD9tJcxzB8Vah8Js2VrYAkqYTP.jpg)

I keep applying more pressure to get darker tones on the fabrics, but I also start using the 3B pencil for the darker areas and shadows, the brooch had to show a metallic appearance so I just used the 3H Pencil with it, finally I apply the 6B pencil in all the shades of the drawing to achieve greater contrast, depth and highlight the entire silhouette and contours, and thus finish the drawing.

![Separadores para Web-03.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/inu-jim/23wgKUwgA8LjobwxQSmAfZUBkVQbdmDSX2NcXaoYMpVf2CfezkCEuSu56dMLVTYRNfqp1.png) # There are already 13 drawings on the wall of 80 ![IMG_20221108_161359.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/inu-jim/Eo4EuqpiWdDeYmwvGbs7io6AxrEnvfEkFsETLLvMemegCXpnom4Bd5DwP3XaUPhjynN.jpg)

I still have a long way to go to cover this wall of fanart drawings, I only have 67 more drawings to do, to achieve the first batch of more drawings ^_^.

# Technical information: traditional drawings Format 11 x 14 cm Pencils used: 2H, 3H, HB, 2B, 3B and 6B # Thank you very much for reading my post What are your criticisms and comments about this drawing, what would you improve? Please let me know in the comments below. I hope you liked my work See you in a future post # ___Inu-Jim___ ![Inu-Jim LOGO.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVvk9MyLudLq5C3R9JdFEJ7Pf4VRxEMiEi6TMwm2GH2Qh/Inu-Jim%20LOGO.png) Copyright @inu-jim –Allrightsreserved