Pencil Drawing Tips - Portrait of a Girl - Lachri

Tips for drawing a realistic portrait in graphite! See how I layer my pencils to create detailed braided hair, eyes, and lace in this photorealistic drawing of a girl with pencils!

These tips and techniques will help you even if you're a beginner to working with pencil shading and drawing!

Watch the 6 hour lesson plus over 150 more of my patreon art lessons at http://patreon.com/lachri for as little as $4/month

Want to watch my free 2 hour long colored pencil demonstration? https://lachri.com/patreon-videos/

Order prints of my work https://lachri.com/shop/prints/

One of the graphite pencil sets I'm using was provided to me by Faber Castell. This is not otherwise a sponsored video. I purchased the rest of the supplies used myself. All of the opinions in this video are my own.
Supplies used (amazon affiliate links)
★ Faber Castell 9000 series graphite set https://amzn.to/2YdwCcp
★ Graphite Powder https://amzn.to/2XCiY6v
★ Soft Knife and Covers, 4 Assorted Knives and 8 Covers http://amzn.to/2qqEMwN
★ Shading tool https://amzn.to/2RJJ8OJ
★ Tombow Mono Eraser https://amzn.to/2IJFVLU
★ Kneaded Eraser https://amzn.to/2RCPcbr
★ Drafting Brush https://amzn.to/2X8mhCc
★ Fabriano Artistico extra white Hot Pressed watercolor paper 140 lb
★ Drawing Board https://amzn.to/2LMsHjF
★ Fabriano Artistico Extra White HP watercolor paper 140 lb
★ Shading Cloth Chamois https://amzn.to/33ugZjY

This is the Faber Castell 2b mechanical Lead I told you about (amazon affiliate link) https://amzn.to/2Sr18xv
I'm using the .5 2B lead

Livestream Start of Hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM33_8s0HiQ

Livestream Eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imPYoP3FT_Q&t=1s

Livestream Last Part https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHNn422aGf8

Rose in graphite project https://www.patreon.com/posts/....graphite-rose-279132


Sign up for my newsletter to get art tips sent to you every week and a FREE 2 hour orca acrylic painting tutorial! http://lachri.com/email-list/

Lachri Fine Art official website: http://www.lachri.com
Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c...
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/Lachri.Fine.Art
Instagram: http://instagram.com/lisa_lachri
MeWe https://mewe.com/p/lachri
Patreon: http://patreon.com/lachri


A channel for artists from a professional artist. Get motivation, art lessons art tips in painting in acrylics or oil paints, drawing, colored pencil, graphite, & Inktense, Art Marketing tips (learn to sell your own work) from Lisa of Lachri Fine Art.

I have videos that cover pricing your artwork, what art supplies I recommend, how to use Inktense pencils and blocks to paint, how to paint in acrylics or oil paints, how to draw realistic animals and more!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH0tz1NyvPk