12 things about my art:
1) I've been drawing ever since I can remember.
2) I love to draw faces, most of all eyes ...
3) ... which is why I always draw the eyes first before anything (as you can see in my tutorial section). I use them to navigate throughout the rest of the image.
4) I don't like to draw women... I find the male face far more interesting!
5) What I hate is drawing hair. I find it hard to make it look realistic, so most of the time I just bite my way through it and hope for the best.
6) I use graphite pencils for the majority of my drawings. The dark parts are done with soft pencils (6B-9B), the light parts with HB mechanical pencil (0.5mm), 2B and 3B.
7) Other drawing supplies I use: kneaded eraser, blending sticks, pencil sharpener, sandpaper to sharpen the blending sticks, white fine grain paper (not the regular printer paper!).
8) I don’t work with the grid method in order to get the proportions right. It’s a practise thing, and I still have a lot to learn.
9) I never do sketches before a drawing. Either I know from the start how I want the drawing to turn out or I figure things out while drawing.
10) One drawing (on DIN A4 paper) takes me about 30-40 hours to finish. I know it's a lot, but I'm just a perfectionist. Smaller drawings usually take between 2 and 10 hours, depending on the amount of details and the choice of reference picture.
11) I use reference pictures for my drawings, since drawing stuff from my mind doesn't work for me.
12) I'm not selling my art! Partly because I simply can't part with it, partly because taking money for something I'm intrinsically motivated to do might take away the joy and passion in doing it.