I take you through a master study exercise I use in my sketchbook sessions.

The drawing took 1 hr - but I’ve sped up a little to make watching easier.

Artwork: The Young Shepherdess by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (there’s a few digital versions out there but I picked a particularly dark/muted version I liked). The original is hanging in the San Diego Museum of Art.

And I realised after posting the video Bouguereau is pronounced Boo-ger-row not Ber-juh-row I kept using. Oops. Forgive me for my mangling 😂

Links
- Sketchbook exercises including warm ups:    • Sketchbook session: 4 exercises to ge...  
- The app I use to overlay the pictures: overlay cut out photo editor https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/overlay...

Equipment:
- blackwing matte pencil and sharpener (but any pencil is fine)
- eraser - I love a tombow mono zero and a kneaded eraser
- smudging - paper stump, beauty blender (~$2 from any pharmacy/makeup store)
- sketchbook - moleskine art book

Key moments:
- initial sketch: 00:00
- check likeness: 02:30
- refine outlines: 04:41
- block in tones: 06:46
- refining: 08:19
- finished drawing: 15:31

Music:
Almost in F - Tranquillity by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...

Artist: http://incompetech.com/